Welcome to the only book in the Bible where God is not mentioned, where apparently God is absent. If we are honest, we often wrestle with this same reality in our lives. It seems sometimes that God is absent, hiding, asleep. But the amazing narrative of Esther reveals that God is most powerfully and lovingly present when he appears most absent. Through stunning reversals and ordinary people, Esther reveals the reality of God’s loving and sometimes hidden providence: God is always at work for the good of his people and his glory.