A review by thecatladybooknook_penny
Unseen: The Gift of Being Hidden in a World That Loves to Be Noticed by Sara Hagerty

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5.0

 I remember buying this book as a recommendation from my Bible study (Proverbs 31 Ministries..highly recommend). I didn't know exactly what the book was about even from the title. When I decided to do the BooktubeSpin (see Youtube search) and chose several nonfiction books, this came up as one of the two books for me to read in a few months' time. God knew just what I needed at the time I needed it, Amen? His timing is always perfect.

The author shows how God meets us best in those secret, unnoticed times; those times when we think "Oh I can't stop and pray right now." Guess what? Yes you can...you can talk to God any time, any place. He hears you and wants to be there for you to reach out to Him. Sara uses her own personal story and the Biblical story of Mary of Bethany...THAT Mary who used precious oils and her hair to wash Jesus' feet. It's the unseen moments that some would consider "wasted" time that might draw us closer to Him.

Some quotes that really spoke to me:

When we crave most the eyes of others--their opinions and accolades--we break our gaze with the only eyes that will ever truly see us. We forget the beauty of the Creator-eyes turned toward us, the ones that saw the inception of our lives and loved what He saw.


It seems easier to get a like online than it does to get quiet before God, to seek His face and listen for His whispers.


And yet vulnerability, to God, is beautiful. It incites Him. He moves IN and near when we are vulnerable. "The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart." (Psalm 34:18)
We all have parts of ourselves that are broken. He invites us to expose those broken parts to Him.


Dozens of minutes every day are shot through with the wonder, pregnant with potential to draw our eyes up to God. Our flitting eyes, with just as many opportunities to behold things that won't nourish our souls, need to be trained to see them. They need to be trained to see the face of Jesus.


There were SO many quotes that God was using to speak to my heart.....I shed a few tears reading most of this book too. I highly encourage ANYONE to pick up this book and find Jesus or a new level of closeness with Him.