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Title	:	One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Author	:	Ann Voskamp
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 232 pages
Published	:	January 26th 2011 by Zondervan (first published 2011)
Categories	:	Christian. Nonfiction. Religion. Faith. Christian Living. Spirituality. Christianity. Inspirational

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are Hardcover | Pages: 232 pages

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Just like you, Ann Voskamp hungers to live her one life well. Forget the bucket lists that have us escaping our everyday lives for exotic experiences. How, Ann wondered, do we find joy in the midst of deadlines, debt, drama, and daily duties? What does the Christ-life really look like when your days are gritty, long and sometimes even dark? How is God even here?

In One Thousand Gifts, Ann invites you to embrace everyday blessings and embark on the transformative spiritual discipline of chronicling God's gifts. It s only in this expressing of gratitude for the life we already have, we discover the life we've always wanted, a life we can take, give thanks for, and break for others. We come to feel and know the impossible right down in our bones: we are wildly loved by God.

Let Ann's beautiful, heart-aching stories of the everyday give you a way of seeing that opens your eyes to ordinary amazing grace, a way of being present to God that makes you deeply happy, and a way of living that is finally fully alive. Come live the best dare of all!

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Original Title:	One Thousand Gifts
ISBN:	0310321913 (ISBN13: 9780310321910)
Edition Language:	English

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I almost hate to review this because I know so very many people absolutely love it. And I guess it's become something of a Christian classic. But, this was a difficult book for me to read, and therefore difficult to get into enough to relate well to it. This was my second try. I was reading it (slowly - having the same problems getting into it) when my brother died and I just stopped reading it. After two years, and continued sightings of gushing reviews I figured it was only fair to give it

What, at first, I enjoyed about this book is what eventually became tedious and labor-some. There is no question that Voskamp is adept at constructing flowery and poetic prose. Unfortunately, for my taste, her style became a bit too much to digest. While I am moved and inspired by her work's powerful message on the importance of gratitude and communion with a gracious and loving heavenly father, her delivery often kept me from truly enjoying the experience of reading what she was communicating.

My dear Twitter/Bloggie/hopefully one day real life friend Michelle recommended this read for me. What I read was the egalley/pre-published version of the book. What follows is not so much a book review as it is my reaction to the words themselves. From the very first words of the book I was drawn in. The beginning paragraph was captivating, engrossing, and so very poetic, I knew I wanted to read more. By the end of the 1st chapter, Im already in tears. But fully, completely involved in the

Truly a worthwhile read! This book surprised me and moved me. I am in love with Ann Voskamp's writing style ... it is poetic, deep, and rich. It reaches in and takes a hold of me at a soul-deep level. Oh, it was beautiful - pulling at deep, deep parts of me. Making me strive to understand, and also feel like maybe I could just let go and rest in God's goodness and love.One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are is bittersweet, and triumphant, and marvelously revealing. My heart

Amazing!

I'm going to be honest here-- I didn't really read this book. I kind of just sampled sections of it. But it convinced me to never waste my time reading it from cover to cover. I know a lot of people love this book... but it just feels so pretentious to me. First, it's written in a pseudo-poetic/pseudo-literary style. Really, it's not poetic; it's just plain fake! The writer is trying to paint is beautiful pictures with words... but it comes out as nonsensical drivel. Secondly, the whole premise

I can't do it. I just cannot finish this book. I know it's supposed to be deep and insightful and enlightening and life-changing, but Voskamp's writing style is so irritating that I simply don't have the energy to wade through it and try and pick up on the good, worthwhile things she has to say. It's boring and I have to force myself to read it.Also, the guilt. I cannot handle the guilt ANY MORE. I feel guilty for not wanting to read it. I feel guilty for praying about anything other than