Unseen Sara Hagerty Quotes

The craving to be seen is universal: we were made to be known. But there is only one who can know us. He is the one who created us to live with moments and hours that no one else can understand

Thomas Merton says it this way: “If we are to love sincerely and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.”12

He redefines my circumstances even without changing them.

Jesus is big in my small, unseen moments. Glorious monotony. He came for these very days.

Hiddenness is God’s way of helping us with this holy detachment, slowly releasing our clutch on “the things of earth,” which we were never intended to grip.

She’s tapping into the deepest cry of the human heart, the heart that can preach a sermon on God’s love one moment and flog itself in private over a single mistake the next. We all struggle to believe His delight. Might this be one of the greatest barriers to our communion with God—believing that the one who made us barely likes us, the one we assume finds us barely tolerable?

How would parents respond to children who gladly cleaned the house and mowed the lawn but refused to spend time talking with and enjoying them, the very ones who have loved and cared for them their whole lives? We know this isn’t the way things should operate in a healthy family, and yet we often and subconsciously relate to God in this way. We give Him what we perceive to be our obedience yet internally resist a deeper surrender.

Great kingdom impact comes not just from actions that make a dramatic and observable impact but from all the accumulated moments we spend looking at God, bringing Him glory in private, and letting Him shape our insides.

We forget that it’s in the interruptions, the waiting seasons, the disappointments that we grow best. It is in those times when we are “sidetracked” by a disheartening job, an unshared bed, or a leader who doesn’t acknowledge our gifting that God whispers, This is where you become great—on the inside.

In his book Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds, and I will declare your greatness” (Ps. 145:5–6 ESV).

Too often we settle for lesser things. 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.

Left to ourselves, we will pray to some god who speaks what we like hearing, or to the part of God we manage to understand.