Near the end of her book The Broken Way, author Ann Voskamp leaves her readers with a challenging thought in just two words:  live given.[i] She encourages us to change our attitude toward the circumstances in life that make demands on us. Most of us have a rough idea what we think we’re going to do each day. But often when needs and interruptions crop up unexpectedly during our day, we grow resentful.  We tend to feel that others are “taking” from us. Yes, we tend to “live taken” instead of “given.”

[i] Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2016), 215.