WHEN THE HEART WAITS

by Sue Monk Kidd

There are seasons in our lives when something within us begins to stir. Perhaps life no longer feels quite the same. What once gave us meaning may no longer satisfy us. The roles we have carried, the identities we have built, and even the ways we have understood ourselves may begin to feel inadequate. Sometimes this happens through a crisis. Sometimes through loss, change, illness, ageing, retirement, the emptying of a home,
the ending of a relationship, or the realization that the life we have been living is no longer the life our deepest self longs for. There is simply a quiet restlessness within.- The quiet restlessness is exactly where God is emerging and our false Self is being shed, allowing the true self to unfold. We learn through the book
to do the interior work and find God in our center. Sue Monk Kidd describes such a time as a season when the heart waits. Her own spiritual journey led her to discover that waiting need not be a period of doing nothing.