The Waiting Place: Learning to Appreciate Life's Little Delays is like a delicious chocolate truffle that once tasted must be savored until the end. This book is an exquisite read with the 22 short essays varying from touching, to humorous, to thought provoking.Eileen Button teaches us many things in her manuscript. Most importantly she lets us know that Christians are human. Christians sometimes have problems making ends meet, lose family members, endure changes and have ridiculously funny and inane things happen to them. She takes the reader on a journey from her childhood filled with fishing and eccentric uncles, through her days of being a pastor’s wife and mother. If you have parents, children, sisters, or friends, there is a story in this precious book that you can relate to.
The Waiting Place: Learning to Appreciate Life’s Little Delays transports us to many waiting places. Places most of us have frequented. Places where most of us believe we are wasting our time. We wait in traffic, slow moving grocery store lines and seemingly never ending visits with family. We wait for love, to marry, to have children and for our children to grow up. Button writes 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,” (7).
The next time you are waiting, spend that time reading The Waiting Place. “To live is to wait,” states Button (227). “It’s how we wait that makes all the difference.”
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