“We too can live the quiet, hidden life of an everyday saint, knowing that such a life is not hidden from God. God especially values things that are hidden, obscure, and overlooked.”- Ken Shigematsu “God blesses those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.”- Matthew 5:6 (NLT) Ken Shigematsu concludes Chapter 11 of Survival Guide for […]
“There are gifts hidden in suffering that can be redeemed only in the experience. . . . Compassion, which literally means ‘suffering with,’ may feel like the most futile kind of suffering. It changes nothing. It hold no hope of changing anything. Yet to be compassionate is to see with a God’s-eye view.”- Desmond Tutu, […]
“You have to learn to love the cave. . . . In the cave, you become rooted in faithfulness and obedience to God above all else, and you uproot the weeds of man pleasing and the fear of man.”- Banning Liebscher “He made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand […]
“What if we can find joy and affirmation in the hidden, the quiet, the mundane? Because that’s exactly where Jesus says it’s at. There’s holy in the mundane.”- Jeff and Alyssa Bethke Jeff and Alyssa Bethke (“Love That Lasts”) wrote the foreword to Sara Hagerty’s new book Unseen: The Gift of Being Hidden in a […]