The Waiting Place: by Eileen Button

I hate waiting. I hate waiting a LOT.

In fact, I can't really think of anyone who LOVES to wait. Truth is, we wait all the time. Wait in lines, wait for our food to finish cooking, wait for appointments, wait for good things, wait for bad things.

But what if we stopped having such a bad attitude about waiting, and started to embrace it? Yes, actually learn to appreciate the time we spend waiting. Why? Because God can teach us a lot while we're stuck in the waiting place, if we could only learn to sit tight, open our eyes, and listen.

Eileen Button has filled this book with her experiences in the waiting place. Each chapter is a single essay covering one topic, one "waiting place". The essays range from big things to small, the life-changing to the simple, every-day things. Waiting for a sign, waiting for a miracle, waiting for the mail, waiting for a birth, waiting for a death... these are things all of us wait for at some point or another. Eileen Button provides a new perspective on each of these places, in a simple, honest yet humorous manner.

The Waiting Place captivated my attention and opened up my mind to a new idea of the joy, yes, joy of waiting. It challenged me to look beyond the temporary inconvenience that waiting often causes, look past the pain and discomfort, the wondering, the uncertainty, and look for the rainbow. Look for the lesson. We're not going to be stuck in the waiting place forever. But while we are, we might as well take advantage of it.

"I am absolutely convinced that some of the most beautiful things happen if we are willing to quiet our hearts, lean into the waiting place, and listen to what it tells us. When we do, we will often be astonished by what it has to say."
                    ~ Eileen Button, The Waiting Place

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