The author
Sarah Schuchts Scarano
Sarah writes from Flathead Lake, Montana, where she runs Modern Mustard Seed, an AI product
studio, and Cross + Covenant, a scripture apparel house. She builds things she and
her clients own outright. She has spent most of her life testing one idea her mother handed
her at nine years old, in circumstances that had no business producing joy, and finding that
it held every time.
She met her husband at sunrise, under the cross, on the ocean. He is the most loving and
adventurous man she knows and he is also her best friend. There have been plenty of ups and
plenty of downs since, and Jesus has stayed at the center of every one of them. No failure
and no success has ever come close to the peace of a marriage where two people keep their
eyes on the same Father. The cover of this book is a sunrise over water, which is not an
accident.
Her son is twenty-one. Finding joy in the hidden places was never something he had to be
taught. It is simply how he is built, and watching him do it is the plainest evidence she
has that any of this works. Deep roots produce big fruit. A blessing walked out in one
generation compounds in the next.
Eternal Optimist is the framework. The Sunny Bell books hand it to the generation
coming up behind: build a culture of joy in any circumstance you are given, and choose
gratitude over bitterness, ten times out of ten.
