One Thousand Gifts

CNLP 835 | How to Trust God When You Don't Understand: John Ortberg, Ann Voskamp, and Toni Nieuwhof on Wanting to Give Up and What They Would Believe If They Weren't Christians

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast, 13 October 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 26 min 47 sec in.

Ann Voskamp briefly references her first book while sharing her personal experience of suffering, explaining that it opens with her childhood memory of watching her 18-month-old sister killed by a service truck in the farmyard—in front of her and her mother. She uses the reference to frame a lifelong wrestle with unanswerable grief, noting the same tragedy repeated in 2021 with her father's death in the same farmyard in the same way.

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