Hello, lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Rebecca
Brewster Stevenson and her new book, “Wait: Thoughts and Practice in Waiting
on God”! For other stops on her
Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of
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Be sure to make it to the
end of this post to enter to win a $15 Amazon or Barnes and Noble Gift Card!! Also, come back daily to interact with Rebecca
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by! Wishing you lots of luck in this
fabulous giveaway!
Wait: Thoughts and Practice in Waiting on God
by Rebecca
Brewster Stevenson
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GENRE: Christian Inspirational, Non-Fiction
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BLURB:
What are you waiting for?
Everyone
has endured the endless traffic light, the queue that goes nowhere, the
elevator music piped through the phone line. But what of those periods in your
life when everything seems on hold? When you can't do the next thing in your
professional or personal life because you can't get to it?
Waiting—be
it for health, a life partner, a child, a job—can be an agony. The persistently
unrealized goal feels like an endless road. And hope's constant deferment can
be exhausting. A firm answer against the thing you're hoping
for—"no"—might be easier than this constant lack of closure. It might
be easier to give it up.
But
what if waiting means to be something else? Waiting doesn't have to mean
idleness. Our prolonged state of need might teach us to look beyond the desired
goal to something infinitely better. We find lessons on this throughout the
Bible and, if we are paying attention, in our own lives.
Rather
than fostering frustration, periods of waiting might have great truths to tell
us. It might show us that hope is worthwhile. Waiting might even be a gift in
and of itself.
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EXCERPT ONE:
The
first lesson of waiting is that we are on the outside. Like the boy on the
sideline; like the not-engaged friend who pins wedding gowns on Pinterest; like
me squinting for lines that fail to emerge on the pregnancy test; none of
us--whether or not we are actively waiting-- is where we want to be. This might
not seem true, of course. This actually might seem patently untrue. You might
be happily ensconced in a loving family, a marriage, a tight-knit circle of
friends. You might belong to a country club or a sorority, a church, a civic
group.
But,
like that of all who wait, the human condition is actually a condition of being
on the outside, an unhappy state that writers and poets have noticed since time
out of mind. It's true of all of us, but we manage to obscure it from ourselves
with all manner of distraction: accumulated wealth and possessions, meaningful
or frivolous activity, even what is truly good and beautiful.
The
problem is that you can't contend with something if you simultaneously ignore
it. And the fact of our exile--the fundamental state of all human existence--is
not going away.
Waiting
can teach us this.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Rebecca Brewster Stevenson is a native of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has a master's degree from Duke University and
has lived in Durham, North Carolina for over 20 years with her husband and
three children.
Before
dedicating herself to writing full time, Rebecca worked with Trinity School of
Durham and Chapel Hill to develop the curriculum for their humanities
department; she also worked as an English teacher at public and private middle
and high schools in Durham and Pittsburgh.
Rebecca's
debut novel Healing Maddie Brees was published in 2016 to literary acclaim. Her
beautifully crafted personal essays on her blog "Small Hours" have
earned her a strong audience of readers who enjoy her explorations of themes
relating to family, marriage, faith, writing, language, literature, and film.
"Rebecca
Brewster Stevenson's writing is consistently powerful, complex, honest, and
hopeful" (Andy Crouch, author, Culture Making and The Tech-Wise Family).
Rebecca's writing has also been called "exquisite" (Stephen Chbosky),
"thought-provoking" (Barbara Claypole White), and
"gorgeous" (Kirkus Reviews).
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Rebecca will be awarding a $15 Amazon or B/N GC
to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
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Rebecca ~ Good morning! Welcome to FAB! It is so great to have you here! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Ally. So good to "meet" you through this tour!
DeleteThanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing your terrific book. I sure enjoyed reading about it and appreciate you taking the time to share it with us.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for having me here today! I'm excited to answer questions about the book and to talk about something everyone goes through: waiting!
ReplyDeleteSounds like it would be a very helpful book, thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteHi Victoria! Many readers have told me that it's been a great help, and I'm thankful for that. :)
DeleteSounds like a good book.
ReplyDeleteThanks,Rita. I think it might be. ;)
ReplyDeleteThe book sounds really great
ReplyDeleteI hope you'll give it a try, Dale!
ReplyDeleteWhat is the most surprising thing you discovered while writing this book?
ReplyDeleteHere's to a wonderful Wednesday!
ReplyDeleteNice cover
ReplyDeleteHope you are have a super Thursday!
ReplyDeleteHope everyone had has a great weekend!
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