Solutions December 2017 | Page 35

SIGNS OF LOST LIVING We lost the day in love. You Ann Voskamp is the wife can be glued to a screen of one fine, down-to-earth or glued to your schedule farmer; a book-reading or glued to your stuff –– mama to a posse of seven; and maybe that’s just a bit and the author of the New of lost living. You can be a York Times bestsellers One slave to getting ahead, a Thousand Gifts (sold more slave to the clock, a slave than one million copies and to convenience, a slave to translated into more than some ill-advised American twenty-one languages) dream –– and maybe and The Broken Way. that’s a lot of lost living. Maybe even in a bit of brokenness, grace moves in you to get up and give to people you love and people you’re learning to love, to go to the park and laugh with your kids or any kids, to give an elerly woman a hand and a listening ear and the gift of presence –– that’s large living. The greatest living always happens through the givenness. Solutions 35