How a Time Management Book Is Answering Tough Christian Questions

Have you ever turned to a time management book to nourish your soul? I haven’t. But that is what I found happening with this unexpected gem that tackled difficult questions like “How can you trust in God when there is so much suffering?” and “How should a Christian interpret failure when he believes he is doing God’s will”?

Divine Time Management: The Joy of Trusting God’s Loving Plans for You by Elizabeth Grace Saunders (Faith Words, November 7) is a therapeutic experience and written in a tone and language that would be most familiar to committed Christians.

Within the first 20 pages, Saunders astounds readers expecting a normal time management book by declaring: “The ultimate goal of time management should not be achievement or getting things done. Instead, it should be about creating the freedom to do the Lord’s will and in turn receive God’s best.”

Saunders, who wrote two time management books without any faith element before this one, told ChristianWeek, “It was such a humbling book to write and the biggest lesson I learned is how much I had to grow.

“The experience of writing Divine Time Management was entirely different than the experience of writing my first two books. In my first book, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment, and my second book, How to…