Excerpt: I can so easily miss the beauty right in front of me. How? I get distracted by the life I want and don’t have. Or by the life I have but don’t want. So I miss what it is I really want most: God. The same God who wants me.

Excerpt: How quickly I lose awareness of Immanuel, God 'with' us. I don’t leave Him. But I forget Him. I’ve not lost His presence. But I have lost my awareness of it.