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    The Waiting Place: Learning to Appreciate Life's Little Delays
    The Waiting Place: Learning to Appreciate Life's Little Delays
    The Waiting Place: Learning to Appreciate Life's Little Delays
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    The Waiting Place: Learning to Appreciate Life's Little Delays

    By Eileen Button

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    Some of the most priceless gifts can be discovered while waiting for something else.

    We all spend precious time just waiting. We wait in traffic, grocery store lines, and carpool circles. We wait to grow up, for true love, and for our children to be born. We even wait to die. But while we work hard at this business of living, life can sometimes feel like one long, boring meeting. Even today, with instant gratification at our techno-laced fingertips, we can’t escape the waiting place. Somehow, in between our texting and tweeting and living and dying, we end up there again and again.

    In the voice of an old friend or a wise-cracking sister, Eileen Button takes us back to the days of curling irons and camping trips, first loves and final goodbyes, big dreams and bigger reality checks. With heart-breaking candor she calls us to celebrate the tension between what we hope for tomorrow and what we live with today.

    Chock-full of humor and poignant insights, these stories will make you laugh and cry. They’ll challenge you to enjoy—or at least endure—the now. As Eileen has learned, “To wait is human. To find life in the waiting place, divine.”

    Come discover miracles in the mundane. Come celebrate life in The Waiting Place.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateJun 6, 2011
    ISBN9780849949326
    The Waiting Place: Learning to Appreciate Life's Little Delays
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    Eileen Button

    Eileen Button is a weekly columnist for The Flint Journal. Her commentaries have also appeared in multiple online and print publications, including Newsweek and Christianity Today. In addition, Eileen is an adjunct professor of Communication.  She lives with her family in a town where she is often stuck in a waiting place, such as a doctors' office, athletic field, school auditorium, and carpool loop.

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    • 5/5
      This book is filled with short essays about just that - waiting. In it you will be encouraged in the time of waiting you are experiencing now. Your perspective might even be forever altered as she read through each essay. I truly enjoyed the honesty and open writing style of Eileen Button. With truth and candor she opens up her heart for others to see. Through it we are invited to savor those times of waiting, to eagerly look for God during these times, to grow with Him and in Him.I believe this is a book to be read over and over. It is one that will be dog-eared, or marked with sticky-note tabs to mark you favorite essays. Each person who picks up a copy of this book will be able to relate to at least on, if not more, of the essays.Take time to enjoy your waiting place - look carefully and see what God is doing.Thank you Booksneeze and Thomas Nelson for this review copy.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this book. It was honest and endearing. The Waiting Place is the perfect title. We spend half of our lives waiting for things to happen. Life is want happens in the waiting place. You get a very personal look into Eileen's life. Her thoughts and feelings she makes her self a open book. She puts the reader in her shoes. You feel the feelings that she felt or close. A great read.

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