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A New York Times bestseller! Brokenness doesn't only find us in the big things--things like illness, hardship, or grief. It can find you in the everyday. Learn to walk in a way that glorifies Jesus and receive freedom, not beyond your fear and pain, but within it.
We are fragile and we know it. Sometimes, living with Christ in a messed-up world feels less like victory and more like walking uphill. Ann Voskamp, the New York Times bestselling author of One Thousand Gifts, sits at the edge of her life and her own unspoken brokenness and asks: What if you really want to live abundantly before it's too late What do you do if you really want to know abundant wholeness
This one's for the lovers and the sufferers. This one's for the busted ones who are ready to bust free, the ones ready to break molds, break chains, break measuring sticks, and break all this bad brokenness with an unlikely good brokenness. You could be one of the Beloved who is broken--and still lets yourself be loved.
Ann desperately wants you to know:
God is attracted to the broken, the sin-sick, and those in need The very things people are most ashamed of are the exact broken things that draw God to his people You can live in the face of your unspoken pain You can discover and trust this broken way--the way to not be afraid of broken thingsThe Broken Way is simple in presentation, written in Ann's unique style--a new way for desperate Christians in need of a fresh revelation of the grace of God.
Author Notes
Ann Voskamp was born on August 10, 1973 in Listowel, Ontario, Canada. She is a farmer's wife, who home-schools her six children. She is the author of One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, The Greatest Gift: Unwrapping the Full Love Story of Christmas, and Unwrapping the Greatest Gift: A Family Celebration of Christmas.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Bestselling author and speaker Voskamp (One Thousand Gifts) encourages readers to find love in their suffering and brokenness. She begins her memoir in the raw emotion of remembering a time in her teens when she cut herself on a broken jar to relieve an intractable pain she felt welling up inside her from an unidentifiable source. She compares this moment to the turmoil her own teenage daughter has been experiencing-feelings of disconnect, loneliness, and unworthiness. In 18 superbly developed chapters, she goes on to detail real life stories that will leave readers alternately weeping freely and celebrating ecstatically. One of the most poignant anecdotes tells of Voskamp's 40th birthday: she spent the day with her family, visiting a nursing home, a coffee shop, and other places in their neighborhood to deliver gifts and pay for strangers' coffee. Readers will find inspiration in Voskamp's wonderful goal of attaining peace and closure after such tragic occurrences as losing a good friend to cancer. Tracking back and forth across the same broken ground, Voskamp's work is no light reading. Those who summon up the courage to engage her weighty subject matter will discover a road map for charting the "brokenness that makes a canvas for God's light." (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Library Journal Review
In this sequel to her first book, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare To Live Fully Right Where You Are, Voskamp offers a spiritual memoir that is unique in its lyrical translation of the gospel message of the cross: "Not one thing in your life is more important than figuring out how to live in the face of unspoken pain." This imperative is woven into the strands of her autobiography, taut with a fine balance of raw humility, insight, and fierce rage against incomprehensible sorrows that include the accidental death of her young sister; the childhood stigma and abandonment of her mother's episodic retreats into psychiatric wards; and her own powerful sense of shame and unworthiness, unleashed in recurring bouts of self-harm. Narrator Jaimee Paul's voice skillfully conveys this tension with a startling sense of sharp, pleading anger directed in utter abandonment at times toward God, although the effect is never a mere litany of despair or doubt. Verdict A valuable addition to resources that address the psychology of self-harm and the toll of unacknowledged trauma and anxiety, from an inspirational Christian point of view.-Bernadette McGrath, Vancouver P.L., BC © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| 1 What to Do with Your One Broken Heart | p. 11 |
| 2 Re-Membering Your Broken Pieces | p. 27 |
| 3 When You Want to Exchange Your Brokenness | p. 39 |
| 4 How to Break Time in Two | p. 53 |
| 5 Becoming the Gift the World Needs-and You Need | p. 65 |
| 6 What's Even Better than a Bucket List | p. 81 |
| 7 Love Is a Roof for All Our Brokenness | p. 99 |
| 8 Why Love Is Worth Breaking Your Heart | p. 113 |
| 9 The Miracle in Your Pocket That Breaks Stress | p. 123 |
| 10 How to Passionately Love When Your Heart's Breaking | p. 131 |
| 11 Breaking into Being Real | p. 141 |
| 12 Breaking Your Brokenness | p. 155 |
| 13 The Inconvenient Truth No One Tells You | p. 163 |
| 14 Breaking the Lies in Your Head | p. 179 |
| 15 How to be an Esther and Break a Thousand Gates | p. 195 |
| 16 When It Comes to Wooing God and Healing Wounds | p. 211 |
| 17 How to Find the Heroes in a Suffering World | p. 223 |
| 18 Why You Don't Have to Be Afraid to Be Broken | p. 243 |
| Epilogue | p. 267 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 273 |
| Bible Translations Cited | p. 276 |
| Notes | p. 277 |