When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions… (original 1990; edition 2006)

by Sue Monk Kidd

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Title:	When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions (Plus)
Authors:	Sue Monk Kidd
Info:	HarperOne (2006), Edition: 1ST, Paperback, 240 pages
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When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions (Plus) by Sue Monk Kidd (1990)

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This book has been donated in memory of Doris Johnson (mother of Verlinda Henining) by Ward Mayer of the 2002-2003 EFM Seminar Group.

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1990

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I said to my soul, be still, and wait...So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. --T. S. Eliot

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To Sandy, who has risked newness along with me

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The author relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty excape from the pain yielded to a discipline of "active waiting."

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From the Bestselling Author of The Secret Life of Bees, an Inspiring Autobiographical Account of Personal Pain, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Grace

Blending her own experiences with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of "active waiting." This PLUS edition includes a reader's guide.

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"...Kidd's inspirational autobiographical account of personal pain, spiritual awakening, and divine grace"--Publisher description.

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