Hidden in Plain Sight

Below is Mark Buchanan's intro, if you will, to his new book Hidden in Plain Sight. This is the next one I'm going to read. He's the author of The Rest of God...a book I will keep with me in hand, heart and mind for a very long time. His new book got moved to the top of the ever growing list of "books to get to," and I can tell I will need to give God adequate space in my life with this book so I will wait to start it until other books are finished. Expect to hear about it in the near future. So far just the title has begun to work its way into me because I'm seeing so many things about God and life with God that are indeed, hidden in plain sight. Truths and promises from God that have always been there for humanity from the beginning of time (and written quite clearly in the Bible). A different season, a different context of life, a different person for all those things to be reflected against unveil things in us and around us that have in essence been there (or at least available) the whole time. That can be a truly deep and liberating experience and/or it can be a truly deep and tumultuous experience. I'm finding it's most definitely both. Both have their perfect place and I am even more confident that this is the shape and the feeling and the look and the guts of God's character being shaped in a human.... the unveiling and revealing of God himself in his perfect time, and his perfect order. So spacious is He that everything finds its perfect place....