Eileen Button
The Waiting Place:
Learning to Appreciate Life's Little Delays
Learning to Appreciate Life's Little Delays
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""To wait is
human.
To find life in
The
Waiting Place,
divine!"
A collection of essays describing the beauty and humor that can be found in what often feels like a most useless place . . .
The Waiting Place.
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 amazing things can happen if we open our eyes in The Waiting Place and peer into its dusty corners. Sometimes relationships are built, faith is discovered, dreams are (slowly) realized, and God can be found working in the midst of it all.
Includes stories on waiting for:
Praise for The Waiting Place:
"This is a collection of essays written by a woman with great heart, intelligence, and honesty. You might want to keep them at your bedside like a box of literary bonbons, and read one a night, as I did. Many will make you laugh out loud, at least one will make you weep, and all of them will enlarge your life in a way that reading thoughtful writing does. Bonus: no weight gain."
Elizabeth Berg, NYTimes bestselling author of Once Upon a Time, There Was You
"We all have our waiting places, but I didn't honor or welcome mine until Eileen Button showed me hers. This book woke me up to the value of life's unexpected roadblocks, and made me laugh and sigh and reach for the Kleenex as I put on the brakes. I'm giving it to everyone I know who hates to wait, which is just about everyone I know."
Sally Ryder Brady, author of A Box of Darkness
"Eileen Button is about to become your best friend. Charmingly irreverent and down-to-earth, she dishes about work, love, children, husbands, and the struggle to move forward when you're forced to wait."
Kelly Flynn, author of Kids, Classrooms, and Capitol Hill: A Peek Inside the Walls of America's Public Schools
The Waiting Place.
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 amazing things can happen if we open our eyes in The Waiting Place and peer into its dusty corners. Sometimes relationships are built, faith is discovered, dreams are (slowly) realized, and God can be found working in the midst of it all.
Includes stories on waiting for:
- the day to end
- a place called home
- a baby's healing
- church to be over
- a husband's return
- a mother's acceptance
- a loved one to die
Praise for The Waiting Place:
"This is a collection of essays written by a woman with great heart, intelligence, and honesty. You might want to keep them at your bedside like a box of literary bonbons, and read one a night, as I did. Many will make you laugh out loud, at least one will make you weep, and all of them will enlarge your life in a way that reading thoughtful writing does. Bonus: no weight gain."
Elizabeth Berg, NYTimes bestselling author of Once Upon a Time, There Was You
“Eileen Button's The Waiting Place is the shaft of sunlight on the cloudy day, a glimpse of possibility amidst difficulty. She is the wise woman of the village to whom we all repair when perspective and patience are needed.”
Philip Gulley, author of If the Church Were Christian"We all have our waiting places, but I didn't honor or welcome mine until Eileen Button showed me hers. This book woke me up to the value of life's unexpected roadblocks, and made me laugh and sigh and reach for the Kleenex as I put on the brakes. I'm giving it to everyone I know who hates to wait, which is just about everyone I know."
Sally Ryder Brady, author of A Box of Darkness
"Eileen Button is about to become your best friend. Charmingly irreverent and down-to-earth, she dishes about work, love, children, husbands, and the struggle to move forward when you're forced to wait."
Kelly Flynn, author of Kids, Classrooms, and Capitol Hill: A Peek Inside the Walls of America's Public Schools
