(Non) Fiction Friday: 1,000 Gifts

Gratitude isn't just for Thanksgiving; it's a lifestyle

Today I'm breaking my own rules for Fiction Fridqy. But honestly, Ann Voskamp is such an awesome writer you won't be able to tell the difference between her storytelling and reality. 1,000 Gifts is one of my favorites that shares her journey of learning gratitude.

Here's a blurb:

Just like you, Ann Voskamp hungers to live her one life well. Forget the bucket lists that have us escaping our everyday lives for exotic experiences. “How,” Ann wondered, “do we find joy in the midst of deadlines, debt, drama, and daily duties? What does the Christ-life really look like when your days are gritty, long—and sometimes even dark? How is God even here?”In One Thousand Gifts, Ann invites you to embrace everyday blessings and embark on the transformative spiritual discipline of chronicling God's gifts. It’s only in this expressing of gratitude for the life we already have, we discover the life we've always wanted … a life we can take, give thanks for, and break for others. We come to feel and know the impossible right down in our bones: we are wildly loved — by God. Let Ann's beautiful, heart-aching stories of the everyday give you a way of seeing that opens your eyes to ordinary amazing grace, a way of being present to God that makes you deeply happy, and a way of living that is finally fully alive.