{"id":384,"date":"2022-11-29T15:24:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T22:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandilangston.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2024-07-25T15:13:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T22:13:17","slug":"book-review-waymaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandilangston.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/book-review-waymaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: WayMaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This unforgettable true story of a marriage and adoption is a window into Ann Voskamp\u2019s soul. Exquisitely written, it encourages the reader of God\u2019s intricate involvement in our lives \u2013 always making a way, sometimes through the impossible.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<!--noteaser-->\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You&#8217;ve Always Dreamed of<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author: Ann Voskamp<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published in 2022 by W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annvoskamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Author website<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I haven\u2019t had one for years, but <em>WayMaker<\/em> is officially my favourite book! It\u2019s the unforgettable true story of a marriage and the adoption of a little girl with cardiac complications. It is a window into Ann Voskamp\u2019s soul, her relationship with her husband, and her relationship with God. Her story is vulnerably honest, it\u2019s inspiring to the point of tears, and it\u2019s a gift to Christian women who appreciate poetry and story. Ann\u2019s writing is exquisite and her way with words is out of this world. I hope one day to be able to write like her! Overall, <em>WayMaker<\/em> is a book that grabs hold of the heart.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It begins with Ann\u2019s honeymoon, embarrassingly cut short. That is just the first of a string of events that do not turn out as expected. The main metaphor is the Exodus, specifically the parting of the waters. Just when there seemed to be no way for the Israelites, God provided a \u201cRed Sea Road.\u201d Ann\u2019s story reassures us that God is still a WayMaker today, not only making a way <em>for<\/em> us (for His will in our lives) but making His way <em>to<\/em> us.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After twenty-plus years of marriage and six children, Ann saw a picture of a little girl in China and was gripped with the sense that the girl was to be their daughter. Ann brings us on the journey of the emotional ups and downs and the painstaking wait to adopt to this girl.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shiloh\u2019s adoption story \u2013 from first sight, through heart surgeries, to the present \u2013 is a gift to the world. It is a story of God revealing Himself to us, revealing His Father heart. It is a story of extraordinary confirmations and guidance \u2013 a blazing neon sign that God is active in this world and orchestrates every detail of our lives.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in consciously striving to form attachment with this baby, Ann lost attachment with her husband. She skipped out on attending to her soul. She and Darryl grew apart and almost lost their marriage. God got Ann\u2019s attention dramatically, and she risked vulnerability once again, returning (re-turning) to Darryl. But how can anyone forgive themself after the damage is done?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>WayMaker<\/em> is also Ann\u2019s journey of letting herself be seen, be known. Darryl reflects God to Ann. His love steadies her, invites her into being fully known. As she increasingly let her husband see and know her and she increasingly received his love, Ann discovered for herself that \u201cIt is only in being really known, in ways that we wish nobody ever knew, that we ever really know what it means to be loved,\u201d (p. 328). In sharing her journey with us, Ann leads the way for us into vulnerability, into intimacy, and ultimately to the Father.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ann has cultivated the discipline of noticing small details in every moment of every day. Glimmers of beauty, small graces, slight turns of the heart are described in memorable metaphors. She has a way of noticing how everyday things \u2013 a bird, a plant \u2013 represent aspects of her story. The result is unforgettable. The image of a clematis (which I now know is a plant) and what it represents in Ann\u2019s story is indelibly inked in my memory. Throughout the book Ann weaves theological reflections, musing on topics such as hope, suffering, adoption, and trust \u2013 each one rich and encouraging.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ann\u2019s reflection on the legal aspects of marriage and adoption was a revelation for me, though it is so obvious, really! (Spoiler alert!) Often we describe Christianity as the legal transaction that happens when we first choose to follow God: the forgiveness of our sin and the righteousness we receive in Christ, made possible by Jesus\u2019 death and resurrection. All that is true. But the legal part of our covenant with God is the same as the legal part of a marriage or adoption: it is for the purpose of life together forever. There is so much more to our walk with God than a legal transaction.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What stands out most to me from <em>WayMaker<\/em> is the lengths to which God went to reassure and reveal Himself. Over and over God guided, confirmed, and encouraged Ann and Darryl. When I got to the part where Ann describes how she pulled over in the middle of nowhere and wept, and I wept with her. Hers and mine were good tears \u2013 the kind that express a gratitude birthed in absolute awe of God.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ann is not afraid to let us in on her \u201cbad\u201d tears either \u2013 the kind steeped in self and sin. In describing her own turning inward, her addictions, she describes every reader\u2019s struggle. Though the details differ, the plot is the same: when we lose touch with God, we lose everything worth anything.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To help us stay intimately attached to God, Ann gives us a SACRED compass: an acronym for our devotional times with God. Each letter represents a simple and practical spiritual practice. \u201cDaily experiences may teach us, but daily examining our hearts is used by God to change us,\u201d (p. 157). I have used these prompts in my personal quiet times a few times and they are helpful for probing the depths of my heart \u2013 into joy and gratitude but also sin and surrender.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not a book for everyone. It is for those Christian women who are attentive to their hearts, who are comfortable with the language of metaphor, and who are unafraid to confront their own fallenness. While it is not only for the married, those who have a spouse will appreciate the mirror an honest peek into one marriage shines into their own marriages.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like I said, this is my favourite book, not only because of the encouraging story of our God making ways where there seem to be no ways, but also because of the excellence with which Ann writes. It is her story, but the reader is intimately aware of and encouraged in their own story throughout.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exquisitely written and a window into Ann Voskamp&#8217;s soul, WayMaker encourages the reader of God\u2019s intricate involvement in our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,269],"tags":[163,161,16,164,162,165,110,160],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-christian-living","tag-adoption","tag-ann-voskamp","tag-christian-living","tag-marriage","tag-miracle","tag-red-sea-road","tag-sacred","tag-waymaker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Book Review: WayMaker - 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