Failing to notice God in daily life may be what keeps us from experiencing the full joy of God's presence. In Hiding in Plain Sight, Molly Wolf shows that, by relating God-talk to the practical and the everyday, we can find love, joy, and God right where we are: "hiding in plain sight." These short, lively pieces pull together the sacred and the human, looking for God in such ordinary things as lilacs, mud season, turtles, dancing ants, a handful of sheep's wool, the turn of the season, and plumbing?all places where Wolf suggests God can be found "not locked in the tabernacle, not hiding behind a mass of complex concepts, not absent from our pain, not out of reach, but here with us, in us, and among us, in the laundry, the scutwork, and the landscape we walk through." Intelligent, often humorous, always inspiring, Hiding in Plain Sight is the perfect book to keep handy for reflection. Essays are included under the following headings "Herbs of Grace," "Staring at the Cat Bowl," "'Shall We Gather at the River,'" "Three Landscapes," "Come Wind, Come Weather," "Portraits, Chiefly Fictional," "Living in Sin," "The Hand of the Potter," "Outward and Visible," "Living into Grace," and "The Spinner."

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Contents Preface: Hiding in Plain Sight   ix           Part 1: God Among the Dandelions 1  Herbs of Grace   3      The Rich Folks’ Yard   3      Subversives   5      The Profligate   7      Big Grass   8      Milkweed   11      The Tying-Together Thing   13 2  Staring at the Cat Bowl   16      Max   16      In the Shell   19      Another Twilight   21 3  “Shall We Gather at the River”   23      Darker Colors   23      Not a Gas   25      The Plumber   27      The Creek   29           Part 2: One Foot in the Furrow 4  Three Landscapes   35      Beach-walking   35      Nothing Special   38      Kingdom Come   41  5  Come Wind, Come Weather   43      Another Country   43      Heavy Weather   45      Non-Fiction   48 6  Portraits, Chiefly Fictional   51      Two Geeks in Glory   51      Two Women—Part 1   54      Two Women—Part 2   57      Speak No Evil   60      Dolores   62           Part 3: “sleep jesus on the stones”             holy Saturday (Allen Stairs)   66 7  Living in Sin   67      Mr. Rabin   67      Hell’s Bells   69      Hot Potato   71      Bread and Stones   73      Strong-Minded (January 6)   75      The Three-Toed One   76      A Mouse Up My Nose   78      Lizzie Baxter   81      Of Spiders   83 8  The Hand of the Potter   86      Babies   86      Wall Fall Down   88      Tearing up the Scenery   90 9  Outward and Visible   93      The Church   93      Crosses   96           Part 4: The Dancing Ant 10  Living into Grace   101      Twirling in the Suet   101      Mud Season   105      South Wind   107      Dance, Then ...   109      The Journal   113       On Hold   116      Swallowing Faith   118      Peace   120 11  The Spinner   122      Anonymous Miracles   122      Hanging out the Wash   124      Paradox and Orthodox   126      The Dancing Ant   128      Women in the Kitchen   130      The Spinner   132 Source Notes   138