The Way of Abundance by Ann Voskamp Book Review

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.

My Thoughts:

Ann Voskamp has a heartfelt way to tell short stories with passion and meaning. She starts out by talking about stars and realizes that stars are, “Breaking – and then blazing.”  She goes on to talk about how brokenness multiplies into abundance and that we need to die to ourselves to get that full abundant life. We know that Jesus says, “We must die to ourselves.” Sounds easy? Well we know that it’s easier said than done.

Ann Voskamp is a unique writer and a storyteller. She is good at getting her point across in telling stories about her life. She just has a gift of drawing you into her devotions. 

This 60-Day Journal to dig into. The book is small and perfect to fit into your purse for reading during your busy day or just to lay it by your bedside to read. This is a lovely hardcover book with a ribbon bookmark to keep you place.  This particular book doesn’t have all the photographs in it as her last book. Her books always look so classy to me. The cover is lovely and the cream colored pages just look so classy.

The devotional is set up into six subtopics that cover a certain theme.  The top of each page has a scripture to begin with. I would say that the devotion for each day is around two to three pages long. The book ends with, “For Reflection.” These are simply questions for you to ponder for yourself. One thing that puzzled me was that I didn’t always get the point of some of the scriptures and how they go with the day’s devotion.

I don’t agree with everything Ann Voskamp says. I don’t see anything that goes against scripture. Truly she writes beautifully and has a way to make you stop in your tracks and go back over something she says. She draws out something that makes you really reflect on her words.

The Way of Abundance is a well done devotion to read for yourself or to give as a gift.

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