039: Searching for Spring with Christine Hoover

Christine Hoover, wife, mom, podcaster, blogger, and author of several books including Messy, Beautiful Friendship and From Good to Grace, joins me on the Home and Hearth podcast to share about her most recent book, Searching for Spring: How God Makes All Things Beautiful in Time. Whether you just came out of a hard season, are in one now, or will enter into one in the future, I know you will walk away from today's conversation encouraged and built up in your faith.   What we Chat about in This Episode ~Christine's book, Searching for Spring: How God Makes All Things Beautiful in Time, what it's about and what led her to write it ~How God takes hard things and makes them into beautiful, good things in our lives ~How to wait well during the hard seasons ~What Christine meant by this phrase in her book: "Attitude isn't everything. Beauty is everything."; the importance of being a beauty-seeker ~The problem with looking inside ourselves to conjure up joy and happiness, the One actually creating beauty in our lives ~How hope comes from suffering ~Little resurrections in our lives that point to that eternal resurrection ~How her son's autism diagnosis led to Christine actually seeing who God truly is ~How to deal with those "inconsolable things" - those hard parts of our lives that Christ doesn't heal or take away in the here and now; how to fit together what we know about the Lord being our Healer, loving Father, and caring Savior with the reality that life is tragic and painful sometimes ~How we can relate to the OT prophets who were looking forward to the coming of the Messiah and who hoped in that promise in the hard times as we, too, look forward to the second coming of Christ when all will be made right; how we can walk in faith in light of their example ~The place of sacrifice in the Christian's life ~The importance of silence and stillness in the Christian's life ~And more!    For full show notes, head to www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com/podcast Get full access to Beyond the Boxes at rebekahhargraves.substack.com/subscribe