This book is filled with short essays about just that - waiting. In it you will be encouraged in the time of waiting you are experiencing now. Your perspective might even be forever altered as she read through each essay. I truly enjoyed the honesty and open writing style of Eileen Button. With truth and candor she opens up her heart for others to see. Through it we are invited to savor those times of waiting, to eagerly look for God during these times, to grow with Him and in Him.

I believe this is a book to be read over and over. It is one that will be dog-eared, or marked with sticky-note tabs to mark you favorite essays. Each person who picks up a copy of this book will be able to relate to at least on, if not more, of the essays.

Take time to enjoy your waiting place - look carefully and see what God is doing.

Thank you Booksneeze and Thomas Nelson for this review copy. ( )

NCLA Review: Eileen Button can actually convince the reader that her subtitle is true; you can learn to appreciate life’s little delays. In the course of this book, she makes the reader laugh and cry, but always writes with such clarity that the waiting places and circumstances she explores apply to your own daily life. At some point most readers have had a Sunday when they couldn’t wait for church to be over or have waited for their dignity to return or have waited to hear their baby’s first cry. The book is not written exclusively for women, but it could be used in a women’s group discussion. This is one of those books that you don’t want to put down and are sorry when it’s finished. Rating: 4 —AMB ( )

No matter where we are in life, I think most of us are always in some sort of waiting place. Waiting for a relationship. Waiting for children. Waiting for God to answer prayers. Waiting for someone to pass away. And I think that Button is right — we can miss the best moments of our lives if we spend all of our time waiting for something else. As I sit in my own waiting place, I remind myself of all the good that’s currently here, and how I’m sure that as soon as I’m done waiting here, I’ll be waiting for something else on the other side.

Button’s book made me realize I really don’t want to miss the here and now.

Button’s essays, however, were hit and miss for me. I think it’s because I’m not married and I don’t have children — it’s harder for me to connect with those stories in a meaningful way. There were several others that really resonated deep within me, however, and they made me consider the way I look at periods of waiting, as well as how I can be there for friends who always feel like something is around the corner but they can never get it.

Button does a beautiful job of combining her sense of humor and poignancy and faith in a way that doesn’t feel contrived. If you feel like all you ever do is wait for the next thing, this is definitely one you should pick up.

Read my full review here: http://letseatgrandpa.com/2011/12/15/book-review-99-the-waiting-place-by-eileen-... ( )

This book is filled with short essays about just that - waiting. In it you will be encouraged in the time of waiting you are experiencing now. Your perspective might even be forever altered as she read through each essay. I truly enjoyed the honesty and open writing style of Eileen Button. With truth and candor she opens up her heart for others to see. Through it we are invited to savor those times of waiting, to eagerly look for God during these times, to grow with Him and in Him.

I believe this is a book to be read over and over. It is one that will be dog-eared, or marked with sticky-note tabs to mark you favorite essays. Each person who picks up a copy of this book will be able to relate to at least on, if not more, of the essays.

Take time to enjoy your waiting place - look carefully and see what God is doing.

Thank you Booksneeze and Thomas Nelson for this review copy. ( )

I enjoyed this book. It was honest and endearing.

The Waiting Place is the perfect title. We spend half of our lives waiting for things to happen. Life is want happens in the waiting place.

You get a very personal look into Eileen's life. Her thoughts and feelings she makes her self a open book. She puts the reader in her shoes. You feel the feelings that she felt or close.

A great read. ( )