1,000 Gifts Quote

I have been off and on reading the book 1,000 Gifts by Ann Voskamp. She challengers herself to write down 1,000 gifts from God and in the midst begins to see how a life of thanksgiving transforms so many parts of her. So far, I would recommend it. She is wordy but I love her descriptions and her wordiness.
This is a quote that I found in my journal today that I needed to find again. Thankful for that.

"I wonder too ... if the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, our own emptiness, might actually become places to see. To see through to God. That that which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave."