Meet Ann Voskamp. From her bio @ (In) Courage:
"Ann Voskamp is a farmer's wife. She homeschools their six farm kids. She deals with a lot of dirt. Especially in her own heart. When the kids and the washing machine sleep, she scrubs the real dirty laundry with words and The Word."My three favorite things about Ann, (without the fanciful "e.") are:
1. She writes of commonplace difficulties. The kind that we feel we should deal with on our own, but can end up being the starting block of a backsliding heart. Reading about another's struggles with the "mundane" is consolation to my heart as it strives against the grind that wears me down.
2. She's made gratitude a way of life. Her list of 1000 blessings is up to 1489 and counting!
3. Her words wash pictures over me. I'm there, in her home watching her strugglings to praise God in the arduous moment. Oh, to be able to write like that!
Here is my favorite post! Click on over and settle in for lovely prose and thoughts that lift out of the mundane to the divine.
WOW! I pretty much sobbed after the first couple of sentences. You are absoutely right in the fact that she captures the essence of how Mothers feel. What an amazing woman!
ReplyDeleteWow, that is a beautiful site.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing that one.
The Blessings list is amazing!
ReplyDeleteHope you have a Wonderful Day!!