Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
Ann VoskampNo one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
Ann VoskampPoor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
Ann VoskampBut wells don't come without first begging to see the wells; wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
Ann VoskampIt is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us.
Ann Voskamp