Netgalley Partner Review: WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of by Ann Voskamp

Ann Voskamp's gift is the ability to share her spiritual growth, grasp of the Word of God, greek/Hebrew words, and their meanings, and her personal story for others to learn from her experiences.  This book is her most vulnerable and personal of all her books.   Because of this, I suspect it is not as applicable for all readers.  It's more complex, more biblically, and theologically in-depth than her previous books.   In some ways it builds on some concepts, she's lived out loud for her readers before, but in many, she is sharing her own personal journey and exodus of sin and losing her way, as well as remembering just what truly her life's focus is. 

As a biblically literate person, about her age, I appreciate her thoughts, her self-discovery of how to focus on God,  abide in the Way, focus on stepping into cruciform, and praise, over choosing to curve to your own desires, addictions, and way.  She continues with the repetition and building on concepts throughout the book as she has in previous writing, but she has learned through her marriage, adoption, and broken heart, each as their own metaphor and dimension, which I believe is more complex than her other books.  As well as the shocking events in her life that many of her readers will not comprehend her experience at all.  But we can all choose to learn from her.  

She continues to share her learning from therapeutic concepts, attachment/adoption with real-life experience, and she is brutally honest about her own experiences.  In her poetic way, she reveals how to live a life focused on dying to self, living in Him, and how easy it can be to alter your own course with minor life changes, but how large an impact that has on your soul your people.  This book is not as easily replicated in the reader's life, as her daily habits and focus require a lot of commitment to the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, and personal soul-care/reflection.  But for me, they are healthy habits to weave into who I am, and it encourages me to press on and grow in Him.

Thankful to read an Advanced Netgalley copy.