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WayMaker: A Dare to Hope
Does it sometimes seem impossible to get where you want to go? Are you single and want to be married? Are you barren and want to have children? Are you in a dead-end job and long for work that makes a difference in the world? Are you losing hope that you will ever get where you want to go?
In The Way Maker Ann encourages us not to pack up hope, but to hold on to hope, because we have a God who will make a way, where there is no way. Weaving the story of Moses and the Israelites on the road to the Red Sea with her own unlikely story of adopting both a little girl from China and a refugee family from Syria, Ann shows how the faithful start walking their own Red Sea road by taking just one step.
Just as Moses was full of doubt about being able to complete the task that the Lord had given him, Ann questions how she will ever fulfill the dream of bringing home Shiloh, the Chinese baby with half a heart she fell in love with after seeing her photo on an iPhone.
How then do we learn how to place our trust in the living God? We take one SACRED step at a time as we practice stillness, adoration, confession, reflection, examination, and doxology.
As Ann takes one step after another, including flying to Iraq at the invitation of an international ministry, she discovers the truth of what her husband, the Farmer, tells her: “You are safer being in the will of God there, than out of his will here.” And, as Moses discovers after miraculously crossing the Red Sea, God sometimes calls us to wait “in the wilderness” in order to do a deeper work in us. The Way Maker is moving us forward in the waiting. The Way Maker is building our character.
And against seemingly impossible odds, but through the One who makes a way, the Israelites cross the Jordan, not only does Ann bring Shiloh home to her promised land, but also their sponsored Syrian refugee family comes to live in her small Canadian town. And through it all, Ann discovered that the Way Maker will always make a way, not to where we think we want to go, but a way to Him. And we also discover that more than a way to be made, we want the Way Maker.
In The Way Maker Ann encourages us not to pack up hope, but to hold on to hope, because we have a God who will make a way, where there is no way. Weaving the story of Moses and the Israelites on the road to the Red Sea with her own unlikely story of adopting both a little girl from China and a refugee family from Syria, Ann shows how the faithful start walking their own Red Sea road by taking just one step.
Just as Moses was full of doubt about being able to complete the task that the Lord had given him, Ann questions how she will ever fulfill the dream of bringing home Shiloh, the Chinese baby with half a heart she fell in love with after seeing her photo on an iPhone.
How then do we learn how to place our trust in the living God? We take one SACRED step at a time as we practice stillness, adoration, confession, reflection, examination, and doxology.
As Ann takes one step after another, including flying to Iraq at the invitation of an international ministry, she discovers the truth of what her husband, the Farmer, tells her: “You are safer being in the will of God there, than out of his will here.” And, as Moses discovers after miraculously crossing the Red Sea, God sometimes calls us to wait “in the wilderness” in order to do a deeper work in us. The Way Maker is moving us forward in the waiting. The Way Maker is building our character.
And against seemingly impossible odds, but through the One who makes a way, the Israelites cross the Jordan, not only does Ann bring Shiloh home to her promised land, but also their sponsored Syrian refugee family comes to live in her small Canadian town. And through it all, Ann discovered that the Way Maker will always make a way, not to where we think we want to go, but a way to Him. And we also discover that more than a way to be made, we want the Way Maker.
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288 pages, Paperback
Published August 27, 2019
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Ann Voskamp
92 books1,374 followersAnn Voskamp is a farmer's wife, the home-educating mama to a half-dozen exuberant kids, and author of One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, a New York Times sixty-week bestseller..
Named by Christianity Today as one of fifty women most shaping culture and the church today, she's a global advocate for needy children with Compassion International, a loser of library books, a stirrer of soup, a loud laugher, a kid snuggler, a Jesus lover and honestly, a bit of a mess. It’s okay really. Grace is the most amazing of all.
Her online journal, one of the top 10 most widely read Christian blogs online, is a relief of quiet vulnerability and an oasis of sacred, seeing God in the everyday ugly beautiful.
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Named by Christianity Today as one of fifty women most shaping culture and the church today, she's a global advocate for needy children with Compassion International, a loser of library books, a stirrer of soup, a loud laugher, a kid snuggler, a Jesus lover and honestly, a bit of a mess. It’s okay really. Grace is the most amazing of all.
Her online journal, one of the top 10 most widely read Christian blogs online, is a relief of quiet vulnerability and an oasis of sacred, seeing God in the everyday ugly beautiful.
Connect with Ann on:
AnnVoskamp.com
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February 21, 2023
This took me a whiiiiiile to read NOT because it wasn’t great but because it was so rich in content, and our life felt too crazy to actually treasure and process Mrs. Voskamp’s BEAUTIFUL words and revelations from the Lord.
Firstly, Ann Voskamp is an artist with words. Her metaphors and similes and realities and original Greek from the Bible and verbs and nouns all mix together in a sometimes confusing but mostly creative and lovely painting on the canvas that is her book. I have never read words put together like she puts them together.
Secondly, this specific book hit home for me in many ways but specifically hearing her heart and thoughts during one of her children’s medical procedure was almost TOO close to home haha but so validating and deeply reassuring that the road our family walks with our daughter, Ellie, is not unusual to everyone, and that seeking God in those places lands us in a very similar heart posture as she communicates. To say it simply, me too, Ann. When we can’t see or control how things go, we faith onto Jesus and surrender to His will and hang on for dear life, hoping He will be our way through.
Lastly, the picture of her marriage and adoption journey partnered with her relationship with the Lord truly blessed me and made me realize that trauma creates need for care. In the midst of that increased need, pressing deep into relationship and into the pain or isolating and numbing lead to two very different places, and she lets us watch her choose both and where each lead her and for that I. AM. GRATEFUL. We don’t always get access into stories like this, and I am the wiser because she chose to be vulnerable and share. Thank you, Lord!!
Highly recommend :)
Firstly, Ann Voskamp is an artist with words. Her metaphors and similes and realities and original Greek from the Bible and verbs and nouns all mix together in a sometimes confusing but mostly creative and lovely painting on the canvas that is her book. I have never read words put together like she puts them together.
Secondly, this specific book hit home for me in many ways but specifically hearing her heart and thoughts during one of her children’s medical procedure was almost TOO close to home haha but so validating and deeply reassuring that the road our family walks with our daughter, Ellie, is not unusual to everyone, and that seeking God in those places lands us in a very similar heart posture as she communicates. To say it simply, me too, Ann. When we can’t see or control how things go, we faith onto Jesus and surrender to His will and hang on for dear life, hoping He will be our way through.
Lastly, the picture of her marriage and adoption journey partnered with her relationship with the Lord truly blessed me and made me realize that trauma creates need for care. In the midst of that increased need, pressing deep into relationship and into the pain or isolating and numbing lead to two very different places, and she lets us watch her choose both and where each lead her and for that I. AM. GRATEFUL. We don’t always get access into stories like this, and I am the wiser because she chose to be vulnerable and share. Thank you, Lord!!
Highly recommend :)
November 6, 2022
I have slowly sipped from these pages for months now. Slowly digested the poetic wisdom; and the Lord has met me in its pages. Now that I have finished, I want to start again, to delve deeper in its truths. Trust me. Don’t rush this read. Heed the call to stillness and the sacred ways of walking with our Abba Father and hearing His Holy Spirit.
July 27, 2023
Ann's best work. It found me where I was and gave me everything I needed to hear. I highly recommend the audio book, Ann reads it herself and it makes it so much more meaningful and true.
March 15, 2022
Ann Voskamp has a way of writing about suffering and hardship in the most poetically beautiful way that reminds you how important it is to cling to God and let him part your ‘red sea’ and make a way for you. She vulnerably shares her own story, her own heart, and her own ways through her own suffering alongside Bible based content. Whenever I read Ann’s words, I am in awe in how easily she experiences adoration for God and it gently challenges me to continue to grow in my own heart and in my own journey.
April 11, 2022
This is the bravest book.
The kindest.
The saddest, yet the most joyful book.
The deepest, the truest.
I loved every single words.
The kindest.
The saddest, yet the most joyful book.
The deepest, the truest.
I loved every single words.
June 6, 2022
Vulnerable writing and such parallel with my own life experiences. Powerful. Honest. Encouraging. Definitely recommend.
July 9, 2023
Beautiful and inviting.
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