One Thousand Gifts
I recently purchased Ann Voskamp’s book, One Thousand Gifts. I was excited to receive it because the Bloom book club lead by Angie Smith is reading it this month. I love reading new books and hearing how different people interpret them.
After opening it and reading a few pages, I wanted to stop. Voskamp’s writes beautifully, but I am a more straight-forward type of person and the flowery language was getting to me. I kept reading and although I admired Voskamp’s writing style it’s not something that I would normally read. And I think that’s what kept me reading it. I want 2011 to be different from 2010. And in order for that to happen, I have to be different and open to everything.
Early on, Ann Voskamp shares the death of her sister and the questioning faith that families have when a child dies. Many of us know it all too well.
As I read, I folded down pages that had words I wanted to reread. I read 180 pages in one sitting and quite a few folded pages. Sometimes the poetic prose would get to me. I like fast paced movies and instruction manuals so I was looking for more excitement in the book. Yet, it isn’t that type of book. It’s instructional like a textbook as Voskamps shares her life struggles and her thoughts about grace and gratitude.
Probably one of the most profound thoughts in the book is Voskamp’s assertion that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but fear. And thus in hard moments, the opposite of fear can be faith.
I’m not completely done with the book, but I do wonder how hard it would be to find a thousand things to be grateful for.
Hugs,
marlene
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