Everything Made Beautiful Trailer

What is Everything Made Beautiful with Shannon Scott?

In Ecclesiastes 3:11, we read that God makes everything beautiful in its time. It is comforting to know that nothing is wasted in God's economy, but all of it will be used for our good and His glory. You're invited to join us for poignant conversations and compelling interviews centered on believing for His beauty in every season.

Shannon (00:01.487)
Well, hey everybody, my name is Shannon Scott and I would just love to welcome you to the Everything Made Beautiful podcast. In Ecclesiastes chapter three in scripture, we see a whole list of things that it says there's a season for. We see what we would consider good things and a whole list of things that we would consider bad things and things we don't want to experience. The problem is,

It's almost a guarantee that we will experience a lot of the things on that side of the list we'd rather not talk about. So even though there's a time for joy, there's also a time for sorrow. Even though there's a time for love, it says there's a time for hate. Even though there's a time for building things up, it also says there's a time for tearing things down.

And so what are we to make of there being a time for even the things that seem like the bad things that we don't want to be part of? Well, what we can take from that is the encouragement out of verse 11 of Ecclesiastes chapter three, which says, he has made everything beautiful in its time. Or some translations of scripture say he has made everything appropriate in its time.

And so this podcast is just an opportunity for us to have conversations and hear stories about what it looks like to see God making everything beautiful. Even the things that may not seem beautiful to us as they're happening. It's only God that can take something that seems terrible and actually make it beautiful. And this isn't some sort of toxic positivity or

Don't worry, you shouldn't feel sad or you shouldn't feel grieved or you shouldn't feel hurt or betrayed because of bad things that happen. But more, it's saying, what do we as people who know and follow Jesus respond with when we are confronted by those things that are painful, those things that are scary, those things that come out of the blue, the things that are tragic and the things that fill us with grief?

Shannon (02:15.15)
How can we respond as people who claim a faith that says that God will make all things new and that only he in his timing can take what is a pile of ashes to us and make it beauty to him? So I hope you'll join us.