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sonshinelibrarian's review
5.0
Part memoir, part devotional, Voskamp uses her own experiences to frame her discussion about God as our WayMaker. Her style is poetic and I always find myself marking passages I want to return to. A beautiful reminder of how God can work in our lives and how we can choose over and over to follow His way instead of our own.
rvoogt's review
5.0
Amazing. She weaves together her stories and faith journey/insights together well and brings a new perspective. Very real and wonderful, deep read.
annhenry's review
5.0
It took me this long to read because I read along with doing the Bible study and then life has been super busy!
I’m not normally a big Ann Voskamp fan but felt a nudging from God in February to read this book…… and it met me where I was in life and was like walking each page for real because I was experiencing so many of the same things she had.
Her honesty, raw candidness about the struggles she experienced in her spiritual relationship as well as her human , were inspiring in their vulnerability. Her system for meeting God is simple, Biblical and makes you ask hard questions.
This is a book I envision re- reading at some point just to pick up all the details that I missed the first time. It encouraged me, comforted me, taught me, pointed me to the Truth. Intelligent without being pandering.
I’m not normally a big Ann Voskamp fan but felt a nudging from God in February to read this book…… and it met me where I was in life and was like walking each page for real because I was experiencing so many of the same things she had.
Her honesty, raw candidness about the struggles she experienced in her spiritual relationship as well as her human , were inspiring in their vulnerability. Her system for meeting God is simple, Biblical and makes you ask hard questions.
This is a book I envision re- reading at some point just to pick up all the details that I missed the first time. It encouraged me, comforted me, taught me, pointed me to the Truth. Intelligent without being pandering.
themartinmama's review
4.0
How much God loves us as we love our dear ones and our heart is stretched to love and be loved even more.
bookishdutchie's review
4.0
This book has been my companion for close to 5 months. I enjoyed reading it like a devotional, a little bit at a time. Had I sped through it, I would not have retained as much of the sweet nourishing truths, I think. I needed to go slow to hear God speak to my own heart about how He is my Waymaker. This book essentially has “God with us” as its core message, but the way Ann expounds on it in her poetic timbre and always based on Scripture is so life giving. She uses examples from her own life’s hard seasons and how she learned to walk with God through them. What do you do when there seems to be no way? It is a wonderful testimony to her humanness and God’s grace and love. I underlined so much truth and wisdom on these pages and it helped me gain a deeper understanding of the value of hard seasons.
The subtitle to this book (“finding the way to the life you’ve always dreamed of”) can seem a little off-putting and too self-helpy. At least it did to me. But the book is not that kind of book at all. The subtitle is answered in a very clever way. Spoiler alert: Just be with the Way (Jesus) and find all you need in Him.
The subtitle to this book (“finding the way to the life you’ve always dreamed of”) can seem a little off-putting and too self-helpy. At least it did to me. But the book is not that kind of book at all. The subtitle is answered in a very clever way. Spoiler alert: Just be with the Way (Jesus) and find all you need in Him.
elysahenegar's review
5.0
Highly recommend this book! I underlined more than I didn't and will now immediately read the whole thing again to really soak up its wisdom and insights. I love the way Ann Voskamp shares authentically from her own life and walk and the things God has been revealing to her. Her writing is beautiful!