- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
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.
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.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. THE WAITING PLACE: I AM WAITING FOR THE DAY TO END. JUST END
- 2. WHISPERING WALLS: I AM WAITING FOR A PLACE CALLED HOME
- 3. CURLING IRON CHRONICLES: I AM WAITING FOR MOM TO FINISH STYLING MY HAIR
- 4. LIFTING FOG: I AM WAITING FOR THE FISH TO BITE
- 5. FIVE FEET UNDER: I AM WAITING FOR GRANDPA’S FUNERAL
- 6. H-E-A-R-T (EIGHT POINTS): I AM WAITING FOR MY GRAM TO SPELL A WORD
- 7. LOVE IS . . .: I AM WAITING FOR A SIGN
- 8. LESSONS IN HUMILITY: I AM WAITING FOR MY DIGNITY TO RETURN
- 9. BREATHE: I AM WAITING FOR MY BABY TO CRY
- 10. CROSSING THE JORDAN: I AM WAITING FOR A MIRACLE
- 11. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: I AM WAITING FOR THE MAIL
- 12. REDEEMING THE BVM: I AM WAITING FOR MY FATHER-IN-LAW TO DISPOSE OF MOTHER MARY
- 13. SUNDAY, SUNDAY: I AM WAITING FOR CHURCH TO BE OVER
- 14. STEPPING INTO DARKNESS: I AM WAITING FOR MY HUSBAND TO COME HOME
- 15. REFUGE: I AM WAITING FOR MY HUSBAND TO BE WELL
- 16. DANDELION: I AM WAITING FOR MY FRIEND TO (FINALLY) DECIDE
- 17. WINDBLOWN TAILS: I AM WAITING FOR MY CHILDREN TO GROW UP
- 18. WIGMOM: I AM WAITING FOR MY MOTHER TO ACCEPT ME
- 19. UNCLE TOM: I AM WAITING FOR MY GODFATHER TO TAKE HIS LAST BREATH
- 20. A THIEF IN THE NIGHT: I AM WAITING FOR MY (HALF-DRESSED) KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR
- 21. LETTING STELLA GO: I AM WAITING FOR A RIDE
- 22. BRICK WALLS: I AM WAITING FOR A BREAKTHROUGH
- BREAKING FREE