Transforming Wounds into Words – Ann Voskamp

“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.

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