Searching For Spring: How God makes All Things Beautiful in Time

The Bible says that God makes all things beautiful in their time, but when we look around today we see a broken and marred world. Our reality is so often the not beautiful that it's hard to trust that God can make our mess into something good. So how do we live with hope for a future redemption of all things?

In Searching for Spring, Christine Hoover takes readers on a treasure hunt for beauty in both familiar and unexpected places. Framed by the changing seasons, this journey will heighten readers' senses and awaken their affections for the creator of it all. For all who are in the midst of suffering, who find their faith withering, who are questioning whether God is at work--or even present--as they wait for something in their lives to become beautiful, this book will be a welcome reminder that God never stops his redemptive work and that there is a time for everything under heaven.

I loved everything about this book. It spoke to my heart and soul.  Things are not always picture perfect in our lives. Using Ecclesiastes and the four seasons as a theme, we have this hope that He has our good and His glory in mind (Rom. 8:28) and even through suffering we have this hope: God will make all this beautiful in time (Ecc. 3:11). There is beauty amidst all our pain and sufferings. God never forgets, He has a plan, His plans are good! Even if we don't know the whys or we feel God is being silent, though He never is, He is still working and weaving to bring together His plan. Waiting is hard and often difficult to see God working in our lives and situations. That beauty is revealed in God himself. When we view him rightly and understand our position, we begin to see the beauty of every circumstance. We begin to see how God truly makes all things beautiful in his timing. 

The first way to find beauty in the winter of life is to realize God has never promised to fix everything in this life. Through the winter of life, God is a potter molding us, a betrothed pursuing us, a composer weaving beauty through the ordinary. 

I was given a copy of this book from the publisher for the purpose of reviewing it. The opinions expressed are my own and were not influenced in any way.