And thank you, Angie, for connecting me to this incredible article and this incredible woman. I love gathering voices for my head!
Short, sweet,...amazing.
May it lift you and give you hope like it did me...for all those days where I feel like all I can do is fall...
"Sanity Manifesto" (click here for the link)
Here's a sample of what I think is her opening article:
Ilike you already!
Yeah… wondrous, amazing you, just looking around for Deep Peace and True Beauty.
I get it. Me too — hunting for a corner of joy and grace and God.
A gift to meet you!
I’m Ann Voskamp, a plain Ann without even the fanciful “e”, wife to
The Farmer, mama to six, and honestly, I’m a bit of a mess. It’s okay,
really.
Grace is the most amazing of all.
I had a full-tuition scholarship to university and never finished.
I married a Farmer instead & came home to gravel road & cornfields.
I had babies. Half a dozen beautiful babies. My laundry basket is
never empty. I lose library books. I homeschool our six exuberant kids
and most days I feel just a tad bit overwhelmed and crazy.
When the kids and the washing machine sleep, I wash my real dirt down with words and The Word...
...
… but honestly? the only words that really matter?
Are the ones I live.
This convicts me.
I keep writing it out here everyday, the words I am seeking to live — about this wondrously messy, everyday-holy life….
about finding the beauty and quiet,
about slowing to see the sacred in the chaos,
the Cross in the clothespin,
the flame in the bush.
Just listening – laundry, liturgy, life, — all of life, holy ground. A holy experience — because God has flaming bushes everywhere.
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