![]() ![]() ![]() “Last year I had the great joy of working on illustrations for Ann Voskamp’s beautiful storybook, Your Brave Song. Those lessons are a gift, because those stories can transcend the ‘here and now’ moving to the ‘soon and not yet.’ When you share your experiences while embedding truth and hope into the words, imagination seizes the story and it becomes a precious, comforting reminder to return to time and again.Īmy Grimes, story painter and author, and Ann Voskamp, author of One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are recently collaborated on a beautiful children’s book, Your Brave Song. You may have encouraged the children in your life with stories of your own experiences and where you drew your courage from to face a similar challenge, or perhaps you retold a story from your family history. He told them stories that would infuse their imaginations like a sweet vapor, which is the best way to let the rich words of experience touch a soul. How can we help children understand this idea, that God sings His joy over them? That He is their courage? We can teach them in the same way that Jesus taught those who were scared, lost, sick, or unsure of their worth. The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save he will rejoice over you with gladness he will quiet you by his love he will exult over you with loud singing. But if we know deep down who we are in Jesus and sing a song of him, our hearts grow bigger and that crowds out our fear. We can still feel alone and small as adults, unsure of our place in this world. The one that makes you brave.ĭo you remember what it was like to feel very small in a very big world? Especially when you were young with many firsts to encounter, like stepping off of your front porch alone and into the world, or the first day of school, making new friends. In here lives the biggest and greatest song.
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