WayMaker by Ann Voskamp
Week 12: Chapter 11 — The Marriage in the Wilderness
Read Chapter 11 of WayMaker. Key Scripture: Hosea 2:14–16; Ephesians 5:25–27.
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Ann's most personal chapter opens the most private room of her life — her marriage — and in doing so she makes the wilderness a place where even the most broken covenant can be renewed.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Ann shares with remarkable candor about her marriage entering a severe wilderness season. What makes this kind of vulnerability in a Christian author's writing both powerful and risky? How did you respond to reading it?
2.She draws on Hosea — God commanding the prophet to take back an unfaithful wife as a living parable of His own love for Israel — to frame what faithful, costly love in a marriage can look like. What does Hosea's story say about the nature of covenant love that romantic love alone cannot bear?
3.Voskamp writes that the wilderness in a marriage can become the place of renewal — 'I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her' (Hosea 2:14). Have you experienced a difficulty in a close relationship that ultimately deepened it rather than destroyed it? What made the difference?