09/26/2016
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.)

The Broken Way is the most honest and beautiful healing balm for an aching heart. The authenticity and grace from which Ann Voskamp writes are refreshing and life-giving. This book is a true gift from God!

Ann Voskamp penetrates the soul with words that arrest us, convict us, and compel us to the arms of our Father. Ann Voskamps come along once in a generation. We best pay attention.

In The Broken Way, a deeply personal revelation, Ann Voskamp leads us on a journey toward embracing and celebrating the brokenness in each of us. The passionate words that pour from her soul will make you weep and shout hallelujah at the same time.

There are only a handful of authors in the whole world who I try to find and read every last word they’ve ever written. Ann Voskamp is one of those. The Broken Way is no exception, as Ann does what she does best—-articulating the incredible grace of Jesus in a profound way that makes all of us go YES! but had no words for before. This must-read book will give life to any weary soul.

Most of us want to run away from our brokenness. Ann Voskamp runs right into it, sharing the shattered pieces of her own life to help us acknowledge the shards we may be sifting through. Ann helps us see God’s good purpose in all of it, and how He guides us, not around the pain, but through it. Beautifully written, The Broken Way offers a generous measure of hope, filled with Ann’s tender honesty and God’s powerful truth.

What you need to know about Ann Voskamp: after the stunning success of One Thousand Gifts, she has chosen to decline the mantle of spiritual guru and instead to become even more intimately vulnerable. In this book, she helps us slow down, stop time, and allow gritty faith to penetrate, expose, and bring the hint of healing to the mess of daily life. For all imperfect people—-in other words, for all of us—-she offers a compassionate and wise way forward to help navigate our broken world.

I read The Broken Way with tears streaming down my face, my spirit crying out, “YES, YES, YES, YES!” Few authors have impacted my own life like Ann Voskamp. If we can live out the truth contained within The Broken Way, I believe we will reach and impact our generation like never before. So powerful. So prophetic. So profound. Please read this book.

Ann Voskamp’s skill with words, her tenderness with hearts—-it is incomparable. Life can leave us looking for an exit, a window. Ann has a hand on the curtain. She has a way of releasing light, just enough to chase shadows and give hope.

Ann Voskamp is convincing that there is nothing broken that cannot be restored by making the living Christ present. She provides a stunningly fresh treatment of a subject so often littered with clichés. My favorite phrase is, “Fight back the dark with doxology . . . doxology can detox the day.

In the way only she can, Ann Voskamp invites us to discover that the whole life begins in our brokenness. Ann knows what it means to be broken. She knows what it means to have scars. This isn’t her theory; it’s her heartbeat. Lean in to this book, and listen for it.

We all struggle with how to handle the areas of difficulty we encounter in our lives—the imperfect parts of our lives that can feel “broken.” Ann Voskamp offers the solution: Look to another. That is, look to the Lord Jesus for help—and look to our neighbor(s) to provide service where needed. Jamiee Paul narrates as one who understands this often-missed truth. Listener will hear the smile on her face even through the calm urgency of her voice. It’s as if she’s urging us to accept that the truth of God’s love is far greater than the lie of seemingly empty and meaningless brokenness. Paul’s reading style is meticulously crafted to offer hope. Together, this biblical content and passionate narration resound with the timeless truths found in scripture, which still apply to us today. T.D. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

We all struggle with how to handle the areas of difficulty we encounter in our lives—the imperfect parts of our lives that can feel “broken.” Ann Voskamp offers the solution: Look to another. That is, look to the Lord Jesus for help—and look to our neighbor(s) to provide service where needed. Jamiee Paul narrates as one who understands this often-missed truth. Listener will hear the smile on her face even through the calm urgency of her voice. It’s as if she’s urging us to accept that the truth of God’s love is far greater than the lie of seemingly empty and meaningless brokenness. Paul’s reading style is meticulously crafted to offer hope. Together, this biblical content and passionate narration resound with the timeless truths found in scripture, which still apply to us today. T.D. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine