The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

by Ann Voskamp, Ann Voskamp (Narrated by)

Overview

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 things

The 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781531832186
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio Lib Edn
Publication date:	10/25/2016
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.10(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

1 What to Do with Your One Broken Heart 11

2 Re-Membering Your Broken Pieces 27

3 When You Want to Exchange Your Brokenness 39

4 How to Break Time in Two 53

5 Becoming the Gift the World Needs-and You Need 65

6 What's Even Better than a Bucket List 81

7 Love Is a Roof for All Our Brokenness 99

8 Why Love Is Worth Breaking Your Heart 113

9 The Miracle in Your Pocket That Breaks Stress 123

10 How to Passionately Love When Your Heart's Breaking 131

11 Breaking into Being Real 141

12 Breaking Your Brokenness 155

13 The Inconvenient Truth No One Tells You 163

14 Breaking the Lies in Your Head 179

15 How to be an Esther and Break a Thousand Gates 195

16 When It Comes to Wooing God and Healing Wounds 211

17 How to Find the Heroes in a Suffering World 223

18 Why You Don't Have to Be Afraid to Be Broken 243

Epilogue 267

Acknowledgments 273

Bible Translations Cited 276

Notes 277

Editorial Reviews

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.)

Publishers Weekly

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!

New York Times bestselling author and president of Lysa Terkeurst

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.

author of Good Faith Gabe Lyons

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.

Kay Warren

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.

New York Times bestselling author of Jesus > Re Jefferson Bethke

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.

bestselling author of Bad Girls of the Bible Liz Curtis Higgs

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.

Philip Yancey

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.

founder of A21 and Propel Women Christine Caine

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.

pastor and bestselling author Max Lucado

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.

Eugene H. Peterson

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.

singer/songwriter and author of Steadfast Love Lauren Chandler

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

JUNE 2017 - AudioFile

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

JUNE 2017 - AudioFile