The Way of Abundance
A 60-Day Journey into a Deeply Meaningful Life
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Publisher Description
What do you do when you wake up and feel like you're not enough for your life? Or when you look out the kitchen window as dusk falls and wonder how do you live when life keeps breaking your heart?
As Ann Voskamp writes, “great grief isn't meant to fit inside your body. It's why your heart breaks.” And each of us holds enough brokenness to overflow—to be given as the greatest story of our lives.
In sixty vulnerably soulful stories, The Way of Abundance moves from self-weary brokenness to Christ-focused givenness. Drawing from the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestseller The Broken Way and Ann's online essays, this devotional dares us to embrace brokenness as a gift that moves us to givenness as a way to draw closer to the heart of God. Christ Himself broke like bread, giving Himself to us so we might have a lifelong communion with Him. Could it be that our brokenness is also a gift to the world?
This gentle but exquisitely profound book does nothing less than take you on an intimate journey of the soul.
As Ann writes, "The wound in His side proves that Jesus is always on the side of the suffering, the wounded, the busted, the broken." Discover how surrendering in unexpected ways is the first step toward receiving what you long for. Discover the good news that your beauty is not in your strength but in your fragility. Discover why your healing shines radiant through your wounds—and how only in brokenness will you ever be whole—and find the way to the abundance you were meant for.
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Voskamp expands on her last book, The Broken Way, to help readers overcome loss and confront suffering through 60 helpful devotionals. She centers the book on ways of dealing with "brokenness," with chapters that highlight how to keep going despite feeling brokenhearted, how the brokenhearted receive love from others, and strategies for releasing control in order to love unconditionally. Voskamp describes brokenness as the way to abundant life: "Abundance is found... in all the bits of our broken hearts. Abundance isn't about having as much as you want abundance is about having as much of God as you want." With her characteristic intensity, Voskamp communicates to Christ followers that, despite past experiences, they can yield themselves to "givenness" (seeing oneself as part of God's gift to the world). She believes that in order to overcome painful experiences, one needs to concentrate outwardly and seek out others in need. She ends each devotional with two questions that spark initiative and action: "How are you handing your whole self your whole broken self in givenness? How are you spending yourself to pay attention to joy?" Voskamp's encouraging book nicely complements her previous text, providing direction for readers to heal themselves by discovering ways to serve others.
