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More than 1.5 million copies sold! What if you discovered that the life you already have is the life you've always wanted? What if joy and gratefulness is possible right where you are??New York Times?bestselling author Ann Voskamp invites you to embrace everyday blessings and embark on the transformative journey of thankfulness and chronicling God's gifts. How can you find joy in the midst of deadlines, debt, drama, and even the death of loved ones? What does the Christ-life really look like when your days are gritty, long, and sometimes even dark? How is God even here? “It is in the dark that God is passing by . . . our lives shake not because God has abandoned but the exact opposite. God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can’t see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us...” In One Thousand Gifts , Ann Voskamp invites you to discover a way of seeing that opens your eyes to ordinary amazing grace, a way of living that is fully alive, and a way of becoming present to God that brings deep and lasting joy. It's only in the expression 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. Come to feel and know the impossible right down in your bones: you are wildly loved by God. As Ann invites you into her own beautiful, heart-aching moments of amazing grace, she gently teaches you how to: Biblically lament loss and turn pain into poetry Intentionally embrace a lifestyle of radical gratitude Slow down and catch God in the moment Not a book merely to read, One Thousand Gifts is an invitation to engage with truths that will serve up the depths of God’s joy and transform your life forever. Leave pride, fear, and control behind, and abandon yourself to the God who overflows your cup.

Review: Most Moving Book I've Ever Read - The most incredible, most AMAZING and easily the best, most soul-shattering book I have ever read. Seriously, I keep a stack of my favorite books on my nightstand so I can regularly open to them when I am in need of a good nugget of truth, hope, joy... The Shack tops the stack with The Kite Runner underneath it. Then The Atonement Child, by Francine Rivers. I just sandwiched One Thousand Gifts in between The Shack and The Kite Runner. All of those books impacted me in an incredibly positive way, changing my life somehow. One Thousand Gifts was such a blessing to read (a gift in itself!) and I have to share why. I started reading on April 5, posting a comment on Facebook that said, "One chapter in to One Thousand Gifts by Voskamp and I am hooked. What magnetic honesty!" She hooked me in the first chapter with her beautifully moving style of writing and the words she chose to explain the scars of her past. I scribbled in the margin on the fourth page "I love her questions," as she asks, "where hides this joy of the Lord, this God who fills the earth with good things, and how do I fully live when life is full of hurt? How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?" So many times we are AFRAID to ask God those questions, to give life to the darkness that threatens to take us over. In FOUR PAGES OF WRITING, this woman had penetrated my soul by baring hers. I quickly realized this wasn't just any book, and I wasn't exactly prepared to be a spectator of the journey she goes on in accepting the challenge of a friend to thank the Lord for one thousand blessings in her life. I didn't realize that she would be breaking down walls for me and inviting me to join her in counting a thousand blessings. But as I kept reading, her words continued to ring true and strike chords in my heart: "Only the Word is the answer to rightly reading the world, because The Word has nail-scarred hands that cup our face close, wipe away the tears running down, has eyes to look deep into our brimming ache, and whisper "I know. I KNOW." "I won't shield God from my anguish..I can cry..and He embraces the David-hearts who pound hard on His heart with their grief and I can moan deep that He did this..And I can hear Him soothe soft, "Are your ways My ways?..Can you eat My manna, sustain on My mystery? Can you believe that I tenderly, tirelessly work all for the best good of the whole world- because My flame of love for you can never, ever be quenched?" "Perhaps the opposite of faith is not doubt. Perhaps the opposite of faith is fear. To lack faith perhaps isn't as much an intellectual disbelief in the existence of God as fear and distrust that there is a good God. If I don't emotionally believe, practically believe, in the goodness of God, am I a believer? Don't the believers have to believe? Don't the saved have to trust the Savior?" "Joy is a flame that glimmers only in the palm of the open and humble hand..Humbly let go. let go of trying to do, let go of trying to control. Let go of my own way, let go of my own fears. Let God blow His wind, His trials, oxygen for joy's fire. Leave the hand open and be. Be at peace. Bend the knee and be small and let God give what God chooses to give because He only gives love and whisper surprised thanks." I mark up all my books. Much like my Bible, if I am reading and something strikes me, I will underline it so I can find it again, or simply use the space in the margins to write out everything that I'm thinking. I've always done that, and it's the reason why I hate to borrow books from people, because I can't get into a borrowed book the way I can one that I own and have the freedom to mark all over. THIS BOOK is completely marked up. All over! I have underlined, circled, written in the margins, used the space at the end of each chapter as my own personal diary... I have definitely left my mark on my copy. In turn, Ann Voskamp has left her mark on me. I am deeply grateful to her for writing this masterpiece. I love to write, but I could never, ever touch what she's done here. Just by sharing her story and looking deeply enough into it to see where God was and what He was up to, she carves a path for the rest of us to do the same. I encourage everyone to pick up a copy of this book and give it a shot. I plan to start giving them away as gifts for every occasion! Additionally, you should take the 1000 Gift challenge. I started mine when I was halfway through the book, and made it to 25 things in about five minutes. Here are a few from my list: 1) snores awakening me to another day 5) the more I bear my soul, my true self, the more accepted I am and the closer we are 6) the dials all turned exactly right to support life on this planet: air to breathe, sun to warm, firm ground to walk on, food to nourish, water to quench 9) the crisp binding of a never-before-opened book 10) the smell of a many-times-opened old book with yellowed pages 13) being known and understood 14) my husband on his way home to me 19) the fact that God does not leave us in our mess but comes down, gets in our face and SHOWS US THE WAY OUT! 21) the time to count blessings I don't sit down and make myself add to my list at any certain part of the day. I keep it on my nightstand, next to my stack of books, and when I think of something I write it down. Sometimes I write down one or two things, sometimes I will write twenty. It is an neat exercise, and I pray that it helps me make counting my blessings a habit instead of an every-now-and-then kind of thing. I pray that it changes my life the same way it changed Ann's and so many others who have read One Thousand Gifts! Get your copy today!!!
Review: What a Gift!!! - Disclaimer: This isn't a typical book review. This was originally written as a blog post, and is more my "reaction" to the book, then a review of the book. But, I needed to share it here as well. 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, I'm already in tears. But fully, completely involved in the story, in the pain, and in the questions...I want to read more. By page 40 I can't seem to stop reading, I lose sense of all around me and am completely immersed in her words, her beautiful, mesmerizing prose. By page 122, I'm feeling filled up, inspired, excited to participate in my own life with the vigor the author is expressing in hers. I have all the same questions, all the same doubts, all the same struggles. I have all the same hopes, all the same desires, all the same grains of faith. By page 141, I'm making a list. No, not a list of graces, though that will surely come soon enough, but a list of names. Names of people I will be gifting this book when it is released next year. By page 167, I am craving that childlike wonder, and professing to live like a child. Every day. To see the world through the innocent and joyous eyes of a child. By page 188, I'm in tears once again, and wanting to thank God for my friend, the one I call The Disciple, because she won't hesitate to stop and hug a homeless person on the street. By page 201 I realize I'm nearing the end, and I don't want it to end...so I stop for the day, save the last 40 pages for another day's grace... By the last page, the acknowledgements, the Thank You's...I am again in tears. Feeling blessed for having shared in these intimate moments with the author. And I am ready to begin my own list of One Thousand Gifts...and beyond. This book is beautiful, full, enriching. EVERYONE should read this book. Everyone! One final disclaimer: I have since reading this book discovered the author's blog, and also found her on Twitter. I've since then had a few conversations via social media with her, and will continue to read her blog, and hope to continue to converse with her. But I need it noted that when I read this book, I knew nothing of her, the words written above come straight from my heart, and are a pure unbiased reaction to her beautiful words. That's all.

## Features

- One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #9,296 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #144 in Christian Inspirational #150 in Christian Personal Growth #296 in Christian Spiritual Growth (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 6,106 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Most Moving Book I've Ever Read
*by J***3 on April 29, 2013*

The most incredible, most AMAZING and easily the best, most soul-shattering book I have ever read. Seriously, I keep a stack of my favorite books on my nightstand so I can regularly open to them when I am in need of a good nugget of truth, hope, joy... The Shack tops the stack with The Kite Runner underneath it. Then The Atonement Child, by Francine Rivers. I just sandwiched One Thousand Gifts in between The Shack and The Kite Runner. All of those books impacted me in an incredibly positive way, changing my life somehow. One Thousand Gifts was such a blessing to read (a gift in itself!) and I have to share why. I started reading on April 5, posting a comment on Facebook that said, "One chapter in to One Thousand Gifts by Voskamp and I am hooked. What magnetic honesty!" She hooked me in the first chapter with her beautifully moving style of writing and the words she chose to explain the scars of her past. I scribbled in the margin on the fourth page "I love her questions," as she asks, "where hides this joy of the Lord, this God who fills the earth with good things, and how do I fully live when life is full of hurt? How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?" So many times we are AFRAID to ask God those questions, to give life to the darkness that threatens to take us over. In FOUR PAGES OF WRITING, this woman had penetrated my soul by baring hers. I quickly realized this wasn't just any book, and I wasn't exactly prepared to be a spectator of the journey she goes on in accepting the challenge of a friend to thank the Lord for one thousand blessings in her life. I didn't realize that she would be breaking down walls for me and inviting me to join her in counting a thousand blessings. But as I kept reading, her words continued to ring true and strike chords in my heart: "Only the Word is the answer to rightly reading the world, because The Word has nail-scarred hands that cup our face close, wipe away the tears running down, has eyes to look deep into our brimming ache, and whisper "I know. I KNOW." "I won't shield God from my anguish..I can cry..and He embraces the David-hearts who pound hard on His heart with their grief and I can moan deep that He did this..And I can hear Him soothe soft, "Are your ways My ways?..Can you eat My manna, sustain on My mystery? Can you believe that I tenderly, tirelessly work all for the best good of the whole world- because My flame of love for you can never, ever be quenched?" "Perhaps the opposite of faith is not doubt. Perhaps the opposite of faith is fear. To lack faith perhaps isn't as much an intellectual disbelief in the existence of God as fear and distrust that there is a good God. If I don't emotionally believe, practically believe, in the goodness of God, am I a believer? Don't the believers have to believe? Don't the saved have to trust the Savior?" "Joy is a flame that glimmers only in the palm of the open and humble hand..Humbly let go. let go of trying to do, let go of trying to control. Let go of my own way, let go of my own fears. Let God blow His wind, His trials, oxygen for joy's fire. Leave the hand open and be. Be at peace. Bend the knee and be small and let God give what God chooses to give because He only gives love and whisper surprised thanks." I mark up all my books. Much like my Bible, if I am reading and something strikes me, I will underline it so I can find it again, or simply use the space in the margins to write out everything that I'm thinking. I've always done that, and it's the reason why I hate to borrow books from people, because I can't get into a borrowed book the way I can one that I own and have the freedom to mark all over. THIS BOOK is completely marked up. All over! I have underlined, circled, written in the margins, used the space at the end of each chapter as my own personal diary... I have definitely left my mark on my copy. In turn, Ann Voskamp has left her mark on me. I am deeply grateful to her for writing this masterpiece. I love to write, but I could never, ever touch what she's done here. Just by sharing her story and looking deeply enough into it to see where God was and what He was up to, she carves a path for the rest of us to do the same. I encourage everyone to pick up a copy of this book and give it a shot. I plan to start giving them away as gifts for every occasion! Additionally, you should take the 1000 Gift challenge. I started mine when I was halfway through the book, and made it to 25 things in about five minutes. Here are a few from my list: 1) snores awakening me to another day 5) the more I bear my soul, my true self, the more accepted I am and the closer we are 6) the dials all turned exactly right to support life on this planet: air to breathe, sun to warm, firm ground to walk on, food to nourish, water to quench 9) the crisp binding of a never-before-opened book 10) the smell of a many-times-opened old book with yellowed pages 13) being known and understood 14) my husband on his way home to me 19) the fact that God does not leave us in our mess but comes down, gets in our face and SHOWS US THE WAY OUT! 21) the time to count blessings I don't sit down and make myself add to my list at any certain part of the day. I keep it on my nightstand, next to my stack of books, and when I think of something I write it down. Sometimes I write down one or two things, sometimes I will write twenty. It is an neat exercise, and I pray that it helps me make counting my blessings a habit instead of an every-now-and-then kind of thing. I pray that it changes my life the same way it changed Ann's and so many others who have read One Thousand Gifts! Get your copy today!!!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What a Gift!!!
*by K***R on December 24, 2010*

Disclaimer: This isn't a typical book review. This was originally written as a blog post, and is more my "reaction" to the book, then a review of the book. But, I needed to share it here as well. 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, I'm already in tears. But fully, completely involved in the story, in the pain, and in the questions...I want to read more. By page 40 I can't seem to stop reading, I lose sense of all around me and am completely immersed in her words, her beautiful, mesmerizing prose. By page 122, I'm feeling filled up, inspired, excited to participate in my own life with the vigor the author is expressing in hers. I have all the same questions, all the same doubts, all the same struggles. I have all the same hopes, all the same desires, all the same grains of faith. By page 141, I'm making a list. No, not a list of graces, though that will surely come soon enough, but a list of names. Names of people I will be gifting this book when it is released next year. By page 167, I am craving that childlike wonder, and professing to live like a child. Every day. To see the world through the innocent and joyous eyes of a child. By page 188, I'm in tears once again, and wanting to thank God for my friend, the one I call The Disciple, because she won't hesitate to stop and hug a homeless person on the street. By page 201 I realize I'm nearing the end, and I don't want it to end...so I stop for the day, save the last 40 pages for another day's grace... By the last page, the acknowledgements, the Thank You's...I am again in tears. Feeling blessed for having shared in these intimate moments with the author. And I am ready to begin my own list of One Thousand Gifts...and beyond. This book is beautiful, full, enriching. EVERYONE should read this book. Everyone! One final disclaimer: I have since reading this book discovered the author's blog, and also found her on Twitter. I've since then had a few conversations via social media with her, and will continue to read her blog, and hope to continue to converse with her. But I need it noted that when I read this book, I knew nothing of her, the words written above come straight from my heart, and are a pure unbiased reaction to her beautiful words. That's all.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Left me undone
*by B***N on December 14, 2010*

Anything but a light read, Ann Voskamp's One Thousand Gifts; A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, has left me undone...only to be reformed by the Hand of my Master. Join me as I share a small piece of how the Savior has used it in my life. Captured immediately by Ann's incredible gift of pen, I learned that life dealt her several seemingly cruel hands. The book begins with the story of the loss of Ann's sister, Aimee, who was literally crushed in front of her family by a trucker who simply didn't see her. As a mother of young children, the sheer angst of Ann's telling made me want to crawl in bed with my little ones and hold them close to me forever. A mother's heart wants to protect...and yet with raw authenticity Ann cracks open the question we all have asked at one time or another, "How can a good God..." Her answer comes in what I found to be a most unlikely place. Thanksgiving. I always thought of myself as a thankful person before reading this book. I know I have been blessed...or at least I can look at my life and see good things I call blessings...and they outnumber the bad things I call something else. But Ann made me think beyond my limitations...in fact urging me to put on a whole new set of eyes to see the deep thankfulness in both the good and the bad. A task not humanly possible. But nothing is impossible with God. She calls it eucharisteo. And I admit to letting it roll off of my lips in those sacred moments of deep thanksgiving. And so I began, with great excitement, counting my blessings with Ann. Little gratitudes found along the way. A soft little cheek here, a song lyric there...Before I knew what was happening, I began seeing thanksgiving in things I had overlooked for a lifetime. In a recent blog post, I wrote these words describing this new way of seeing: "I'm seeing them EVERYWHERE of late...picture must needs! And me with no real camera! I'm eaten inside with the desire to capture the deep thanksgiving...the things the Lord seems to be doing just for me in the sky...with those clouds...and those mountains and when, tell me WHEN, did those mountains I've loved all my life begin looking so glorious in the fall? Someone MUST needs take a picture!" Indeed...the Lord seems to have given me a new set of eyes. And rather than calling only the good the blessing, I now clearly see the radical, hard thanksgiving in the bad. Though I say that with a hint of fear. Because a part of me still lives in fear that if I invite God to bring me wholly into Him, great sacrifice...loss...will be required of me to get there. I know that in this world we will have troubles...and I know that suffering is means God uses to draw us unmistakably to Him. I know He can be trusted. I know He is good. But the fear remains. What if God must take something (someone?) from me to bring me to Him most fully? I cannot ask that of Him. Angie Smith, at a recent conference said (paraphrased) about the loss of her infant daughter , Audrey Caroline, "for all that her death has brought me...the understanding of God, the opportunities to comfort others and show them God's grace...I would still rather have Audrey." And my heart nods in agreement. This describes the words of my heart. Beautifully and fully, Ann weaves comfort to my fear when she says, "It is impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear" (p. 203). And now I know the reason for the thanksgiving...the counting of the blessings...graces. So many times God calls us to remember and give thanks, for as we remember His good works, His salvation, His provisions, protection...we give thanks...and are built up, given peace and hope that He can do it again. Knowing this helps me take one step closer to the fullness of Him and realize it as an area where He continues to work. His work is grace. And I can not only count my gratitude, I can actually BE grace to those around me. "A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ" (p.184). And "to give the thanks away. That thanks-giving might literally become thanks-living" (p. 192). I am not the same. Upside down in a right-side-up world and wanting to stay there. Seeking the thanksgivings of each day with a fully devoted heart knowing that I'll have to read it again...and probably again. So many are the thoughts of my heart right now...so many are the ways I feel challenged to look beyond circumstances for the thanksgiving in life. So fully have I decided to live in this dare of the right now...that all I have to say to Ann Voskamp (and to my Savior) is: One Thousand Thank-You's friends. Brooke McGlothlin, of A Life in Need of Change

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