One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp
Week 8: Chapter 7 — "Seeing Through the Glass"
Read Chapter 7 of One Thousand Gifts. Key Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12; 2 Corinthians 3:18.
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Voskamp reflects on vision — seeing life the way God sees it — and the way gratitude slowly corrects the distortion that fear and sin have introduced. These questions invite you to examine what you are actually looking at each day.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Paul writes that "now we see through a glass darkly" (1 Corinthians 13:12, KJV). Voskamp uses this image to describe our limited, distorted perception of reality. What are some of the "distortions" — fears, assumptions, grievances — that cloud your own daily vision?
2.She describes the gratitude list as a corrective lens — a practice that slowly trains the eye to see what is really there. Have you experienced any shift in perception since beginning to notice gifts? What has become more visible to you?
3.Voskamp writes about the way ingratitude is fundamentally a form of blindness — not seeing what God has given. How does the story of Adam and Eve in the garden illustrate this? They had everything and focused on the one thing withheld.
a.Where in your own life do you tend to focus on what is withheld rather than what is given? Name it as specifically as you can.
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