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Every heart and soul longs to be observed and comprehended. Yet most of our lives are unwitnessed. We spend our times working, driving a car, parenting. We sometimes spend complete seasons feeling unnoticed and unappreciated. So how do we find contentment whenever we feel so hidden? In Unseen, Sara Hagerty suggests that this is just what God intended. He is the only one who truly knows us. He is the only one who understands the worthiness of the unseen in our lives. When this real truth seeps into our souls, we recognize that only once we hide ourselves in God can we give ourselves to others in true liberty - and know the happiness of an deeper romantic relationship with the God who considers us. Our culture applauds that which we can produce, that which we can show, that which we can upload to social advertising. Only once we give all of ourselves to God - unedited, empty, apparently wasteful in its lack of productivity - can we live out who God created us to be. As Hagerty creates, "Maybe my seemingly unproductive, looking-up-at-him life produces awe on the list of angels." Through an eloquent exploration of both personal and biblical story, Hagerty telephone calls us to provide every unseen minute of our own lives to God. God is in the secret places of our own lives that no person else witnesses. But we've not been relegated to these places. We have been invited. We may be "wasting" ourselves in a concealed part today: The cubicle on the fourth floor. The hospital bedside of an elderly mother or father. The laundry room. But these are the places God uses to meet us with a radical love. These are the places that produce the type of unhinged love in us that provides everything at his legs, whether or not anyone else ever proclaims our name, whether or not anyone else ever sees. God's invitation is not only for a season or per day. It's the question of our own lives: "When no person else applauds you, when it creates no sense, when you see no results - do you want to waste your love on me?"
