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Transforming Wounds into Words – Ann Voskamp

April 29, 2011 By Deb Chitwood 2 Comments

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“If it were up to me … I’d write this story differently” (One
Thousand Gifts, p. 20).

Be honest. Haven’t you felt that way sometimes? It was natural for Ann Voskamp to feel that way when her first memories were of her toddler sister’s death, an event traumatic enough to send her mother to a mental institution and to overwhelm her father for years.

And that event wounded Ann Voskamp. Read chapter one of One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are to feel the deepness of the wounds, the intensity of Ann’s pain. But out of a place of pain and woundedness, Ann used a pen and gratitude to transform her wounds into words of encouragement.

Follow me to Spring Snow Publications to read the entire article.

Photo Credit: Photo by Lisa Sohl at Flickr Creative Commons.

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  1. CreativeBusyHand says

    April 29, 2011 at 7:32 am

    Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 1 post on Apr. 29, 2011. Thanks again.

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    • Deb says

      May 5, 2011 at 6:24 pm

      I really appreciate your links to my posts. The photo at the top of the page isn’t mine, though. It’s a Flickr Creative Commons photo by Lisa Sohl http://www.flickr.com/photos/81886056@N00/1383728944/

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