afterword

Well, we did it! We have read, clear to the end, One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp. How does it feel?

What is sticking with you?
What impacted you most?
Would you recommend this book to a friend?
Do you see yourself reading it again?

I was personally touched by her raw emotion and gentle reminders. I especially enjoyed chapters 7 & 8. "Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is." (pg 143) When I feel like I must do something, take action, am I covering up true action with a facade of worry, fear, distrust? Do I trust Him enough to act through prayer? I think I'm going to put this on my fridge for a while...I need to be reminded often of this truth.

"Count one thousand gifts, bless the Holy One one hundred times a day, commune with His presence filling the laundry room, the kitchen, the hospital, the graveyard, the highways and byways and workways and all the blazing starways, His presence filling me." (pg 226)