300 Australians See God in ‘Every Moment Everywhere’

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Sure enough when we look though, His fingerprints are everywhere to be seen – even in our moments of disbelief.

In her new book Every Moment Everywhere, Naomi Reed collects over 300 Australian stories with people talking about how they came to faith, learned about forgiveness and found “everyday hope” in God.

“All of us have moments where we find it very hard to get out of bed,” Naomi told Hope 103.2.

“And we need somebody else to tell us the gospel again, and to do it quietly and gently and with humility.

“[These stories] are a reminder of God’s goodness and the grace He has lavished on us in Christ.”

His fingerprints are everywhere to be seen – even in our moments of disbelief.

With such a diverse mix of people from 20-year-olds to 90-year-olds contributing interviews to the book, Naomi noticed a pattern of God’s presence in “all the little ways that add up over time”.

One interview was with a man named Brian who grew up in the country and considered Christians to be “killjoys” who he didn’t have much to do with. Telling Naomi about a memory from when he was 10 though, Brian remembers the example of a scripture teacher with a terminal illness who seemed fearless.

“She was calm, and she was not frightened of dying,” Naomi said.

“That tiny little thought stayed with [Brian] until he was in his 30’s [and] he went on to accept the Lord and is now part of this church in the country [with] his kids and grandkids.”

Often in the interviews Naomi also found prior to people accepting Christ there was “an unravelling in their personal life”.

Every Moment Everywhere features 300 Australians talking about how they came to faith, learned about forgiveness and found “everyday hope” in God.

“They maybe had gone through an illness [or] there was a bereavement, or there was just a lot of internal questions and dissatisfaction,” Naomi said.

In the process of collecting these stories Naomi found the way she prayed changed, her awareness of God changed, and her expectations of how He would appear in life were altered.

“I hope that people read the book and just feel deeply encouraged,” Naomi said.

“God is at work in every moment everywhere: He’s not sleeping, He’s not gone off stage and waiting till we sort ourselves out.

“He’s at work in every life and longing to draw us to himself, and He does that in the most wonderful ways.”

Naomi Reed’s book Every Moment Everywhere is out now.

Feature image: photos of book cover supplied and used with permission.