Sacred Ground: Finding God in the Places We Didn't Expect

Sacred Ground: Finding God in the Places We Didn't ExpectWhat if the holiest ground you'll ever stand on looks like your own kitchen at midnight?We tend to look for God in sanctuaries and mountaintop moments, but Scripture tells a different story. Sacred Ground gathers seven testimonies from ordinary people who found God waiting in the places they least expected: a marriage strained by the hard work of international adoption, a friendship that quietly exposed the shallowness of a comfortable faith, a season of burnout mistaken for faithfulness, and a family learning to trust God through months without a home to call their own. Each chapter shows what happens when we stop searching for God somewhere else and start noticing where He already is.- Ordinary Places Become Holy Ground: God doesn't wait for a temple but shows up in the ordinary places.- Disappointment Can Refine Instead of Break You: Unmet expectations-left unexamined-curdle into resentment, but brought honestly before God, they become the very thing that restores your faith.- Rest Isn't a Reward for Finishing Everything: It's part of how you were made to live, not something you earn after burnout forces your hand.- Hope Doesn't Wait at the Finish Line: It walks with you through the waiting itself, one day of provision at a time.With heartfelt chapters written by Rita Davis, Susan Marie DiParisi, Julie Dominguez, D. Sheree Jacobs, Megan Foster Rosas, Kara Tobey, and Leilani Wood, Sacred Ground shows us what it means to find God already at work in the ordinary, unexpected corners of our lives.Take off your shoes. Wherever you're standing right now, in whatever hallway or kitchen of your own life, it might be more sacred than you think.