The Way of Abundance: A 60-Day Journey into a Deeply Meaningful Life

by Ann Voskamp

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780310350316
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	03/13/2018
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	289,046
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Ann Voskamp is the wife of a farmer, mama to seven, and the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Broken Way, The Greatest Gift, Unwrapping the Greatest Gift, and the sixty-week New York Times bestseller One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies and has been translated into more than twenty languages.

Named by Christianity Today as one of fifty women most shaping culture and the church today, Ann knows unspoken broken, big country skies, and an intimacy with God that touches tender places. Cofounder of ShowUpNow.com, Ann is a passionate advocate for the marginalized and oppressed around the globe, partnering with Mercy House Global, Compassion International, and artisans around the world through her fair trade community, Grace Crafted Home. She and her husband took a leap of faith to restore a 125-year-old stone church into The Village Table—a place where everyone has a seat and belongs. Join the journey at www.annvoskamp.com or instagram/annvoskamp.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

Part 1 How Can the Brokenhearted Keep Going?

1 Decisive Givenness 17

2 In Brokenness, Abundant Light 20

3 Winging toward Abundance 24

4 The Brokenhearted Way 28

5 Vulnerable Givenness 31

6 Breaking Brokenness 35

7 Re-membering the Broken 38

8 Sacrificial Givenness 41

9 Living Cruciform 45

10 Held Brokenness 48

Part 2 How Do We Live Like the Brokenhearted, Cruciform Christ?

11 Risky Living 55

12 Abundant Courage 58

13 Mastering the Dark 61

14 Abundant Time 65

15 Abundant Bravery 68

16 Growing Abundance 71

17 Living Givenness 75

18 Heart Transplant 77

19 Yielding into Givenness 82

20 Holy Happiness 85

Part 3 How Do You Let Your Broken Heart Receive?

21 Unashamed Brokenness 93

22 Relentless Love 97

23 Abundantly Safe 100

24 Sacrifical Givenness 104

25 Boring Love 107

26 Practicing Presence 110

27 Grieving Brokenness 113

28 Compassionate Abundance 116

29 Zacchaeus Brokenness 119

30 Crisis Givenness 123

Part 4 How Can the Brokenhearted Find Real Communion?

31 The Givers 129

32 Living Given 133

33 "If Only" Brokenness 136

34 Entering Abundance 139

35 Abundance from Ashes 144

36 Breaking the Dark 148

37 Koinonia Brokenness 152

38 Yadah Abundance 156

39 Bearing Burdens 160

40 Trampling Christ 163

Part 5 How Can the Brokenhearted Release Control?

41 Abundant Fruit 171

42 Daily Repentance 174

43 For the Good 178

44 Abundantly Okay 181

45 Abundantly Amazing 184

46 Brokers of Healing 188

47 Palms Open Wide 190

48 Patient Brokenness 194

49 Bless My Enemies 197

50 Breaking Deep 200

Part 6 How Do the Brokenhearted Get to Love?

51 Something Beautiful 207

52 Pressing Things 211

53 The Emmaus Option 215

54 Undeniable Evil 219

55 An Inconvenient Life 223

56 Grateful Abundance 226

57 Ester Givenness 230

58 Passing the Peace 233

59 Abundant Love 237

60 Cruciformation 242

Acknowledgments 247

Notes 249

Editorial Reviews

03/12/2018
Voskamp expands on her last book, The Broken Way, to help readers overcome loss and confront suffering through 60 helpful devotionals. She centers the book on ways of dealing with “brokenness,” with chapters that highlight how to keep going despite feeling brokenhearted, how the brokenhearted receive love from others, and strategies for releasing control in order to love unconditionally. Voskamp describes brokenness as the way to abundant life: “Abundance is found... in all the bits of our broken hearts. Abundance isn’t about having as much as you want—abundance is about having as much of God as you want.” With her characteristic intensity, Voskamp communicates to Christ followers that, despite past experiences, they can yield themselves to “givenness” (seeing oneself as part of God’s gift to the world). She believes that in order to overcome painful experiences, one needs to concentrate outwardly and seek out others in need. She ends each devotional with two questions that spark initiative and action: “How are you handing your whole self—your whole broken self—in givenness? How are you spending yourself to pay attention to joy?” Voskamp’s encouraging book nicely complements her previous text, providing direction for readers to heal themselves by discovering ways to serve others. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly