Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we feature writer and speaker,

Anne Voss Camp, and financial advisor Emily Stroud. Our first guest is Anne Voss Camp,

a mom, writer, teacher, and speaker.

Her book, One Thousand Gifts, explored what it would be like to be grateful for something every

single day. Her newest book, The Way of Abundance, talks about how we can still attain joy in the midst of our

own brokenness and suffering. Today on the podcast, Anne shares stories from her own life and

urges us to drop our masks of perfection and

embrace our scars as our scars identify us with Jesus. My name is Anne Boss Camp. I

am married to a farmer. We have the Grace and wild crazy of seven children from

22 years old down to three years old, four boys and three girls. Our littlest is from China. Shiloh is has been with

us now. It'll be two years this April.

And I struggle with saying I'm a writer because that's never what I say.

I always say I'm a waiter. I wait on the Lord and it's a slow

listening just to whatever he lays on my heart. So I have written I guess now four New York Times bestsellers and my latest book The

Wave Abundance comes out in March. I grew up I grew up only about 15 20 minutes

away from the farm we live on right now. My very first memory was when I was four years old.

And my 18 month old sister was crushed and killed before my mom and I in our farm yard by a farm service truck in a farm accident.

So I was, I can, nightmares as a child, terrified of death and I was diagnosed with an

author by the time I was 7 in grade 2. By the time I was 7 in grade 2, by the time I was in my teen years I was cutting and by the time I was 18 19 years old.

I was diagnosed with her agoraphobia panic attacks.

So just, I was, the world was a terrifying place for me

where there was not only diagnosis and suffering,

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