Some of God's richest gifts are formed only in the dark.

What Blooms in the Darkness invites you to candidly explore the "night" experiences of your life and discover that in and through these painful circumstances, God is giving you gifts in the darkness. With warmth and honesty, Maggie Wallem Rowe helps you look back with "night vision" to see what God was forming in you all along: courage, hope, resilience, joy, and grace that could only be found in the dark.

Times of darkness in our lives—strained relationships, grief, loss, doubts, depression, loneliness, discouragement, and so on—can be hard to see our way through. Yet God speaks these surprising words in Scripture: “I will give you treasures hidden in the darkness—secret riches. I will do this so you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, the one who calls you by name” (Isaiah 45:3).

Each chapter illuminates a different dimension of spiritual night, weaving together three rich strands:

• Biblical accounts of nighttime encounters with God, drawing wisdom from Scripture's stories of people who met God in literal darkness and were transformed
• Contemporary stories of believers navigating hardship, offering honest portraits of faith tested and deepened through difficulty
• Nocturnal illustrations from the natural world, such as night-blooming flowers, fireflies, and other bioluminescent creatures that reveal how beauty and life emerge uniquely in darkness

This book will help you recognize God's presence when life feels impossible to navigate, seeing signs of his light in places you might otherwise overlook. If you have walked through a season you did not choose and wondered whether God was anywhere in it, What Blooms in the Darkness will help you uncover the treasures that draw you closer to God.

We don't choose the night seasons in our lives, but we can choose to seek God's presence within them—discoveries we wouldn't make any other way. Walking in the light displays our faith, but it's the darkness that defines it.