Most of us don't live our lives from one sparkly mountain top moment to the next. We aren't skipping through our days holding God's hand as doves coo and rainbows flash across the sky to the beat of Amazing Grace. Yet the Psalmist insists that God is always there beside us. If we really believe that, shouldn't we keep an eye out for God? Search the grimy corners as well as the flowery meadows? Scan the aisles of Walmart and the soccer field, the cubicle and the laundry room?

In What's a Nice God Like You Doing in a Place Like This? Jim Dant and Becky Ramsey mine their lives for the...