Dwell in Rest

About this book

Molly MacGregor writes novels about people who find community in church. But in her fifties, living alone in the Chicago suburbs, Molly knows she wants something more than church as usual. She has lost a marriage, buried her ex-husband and her mother, and spent twenty-five years wondering what became of the sister who disappeared and never came back. Now her days belong to an aging father who, most days, does not recognize her face. But in the quiet spaces of ordinary and difficult days, Molly hears a voice-steady, intimate, impossible to mistake for her own. Not a distant God confined to Heaven, but one who dwells within, closer than her own breath. This is what she has always wanted. And she wants more. After a lifetime of loss, striving, and trying to hold things together, Molly begins to discover what it means to dwell in rest-not by escaping the difficulties of her life, but by learning to live from the presence of the One who is already there. Dwell in Rest is a contemporary Christian novel and the first book in a companion series to the beloved Seeing Jesus stories. In those novels, ordinary people saw Jesus walking beside them. Here, Molly takes the next step: learning to hear the God who dwells within, speaking love and wisdom into her life and the lives of those around her.