The Life Beneath Your Life: Discovering God’s Presence in the Person You Are Becoming

There is more happening beneath the surface of your life than you realize.

In the midst of hurry, expectations, relationships, and the ordinary demands of your days, God is present and at work, shaping the person you are becoming. The Life Beneath Your Life is an invitation to slow down enough to notice.

Drawing from years of spiritual direction, leadership, and their own journeys with God, Alan and Gem Fadling offer honest stories and spiritual wisdom for becoming more attentive to what is happening within you and around you. These reflections explore the hidden places where our desires, fears, habits, relationships, and hopes meet the gracious presence of God.

Along the way, you’ll be invited to:

• recognize when your life feels hurried, fragmented, or misaligned
• remember what is true about God and about yourself
• become more present to your actual life rather than the life you imagine you should be living
• notice the invitations of God in ordinary moments
• make room for the transforming work of grace
• discover a more unhurried, attentive way of being with God and others

These pages aren’t about getting your spiritual life just right. They aren’t another program for becoming a better version of yourself. They are an invitation to pay attention to the God who is already present and at work.

Whether you read a reflection each morning, linger with one for several days, or simply open the book when you sense a need to become more grounded, The Life Beneath Your Life offers companionship for the journey.

Because beneath the life you can see, another life is taking shape: the person you are becoming in the presence of God.