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Description.
This book of brief essays provides readers with a myriad of topics and questions for consideration. Why is waiting a universal human experience? What does it mean to wait well? What are we in control of while we wait, and what are we not in control of? Why does how we wait determine so much about who we become if and when the thing we want is given to us? If you are a human, then you wait. And we all have some learning and growing to do regarding how good we are at waiting. This smooth read, with relatively brief chapters packed with insight, provides a variety of wise considerations to press you into knowing yourself and getting better each day, and in each new season of life, at the art of waiting well. What are you waiting for? (from Chapter One). "How much do you wait for things? Consider big things and small things. Consider time-constrained things and things which have plenty of time to come to fruition, and yet you still wait. I suspect if you took an inventory of your life, you wait far more than you ever thought. And I suspect if you looked closely at who you were in those moments, you would realize that at times you are better at waiting than you thought, and at other times you are far worse than you thought. What are the effects of being bad at waiting? What is the fruit of waiting well? What would the world look like if we are all better at waiting?...At first, it may seem like a stretch to say that how we live in the World of Waiting will determine our quality of life. However, it is clear that because of how often we wait, what we wait for, and how common waiting is in the human experience, how we wait, and how often we wait and on what, has serious consequences on the quality of lives we lead. How we wait affects our emotions, our health, our relationship with others, our relationship with ourselves, the sequence of plot events that play out in our lives, our relationship with God, and not just whether we get what we want but who we have become if and when the thing for which we are waiting is actually given to us." |