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When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions
Blending her own experiences with an intimate grasp of contemplative spirituality,
Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis at midlife,
when life seemed to have lost meaning and how her longing for hasty escape from the pain
yielded to a discipline of “active waiting.” Comparing her experience to the
formative processes inside a chrysalis on a wintry tree branch, Kidd reflects on the fact that
the soul is often symbolized as a butterfly. The simple cocoon, a living parable of
waiting, becomes an icon of hope for the transformation that the author sought. Kidd
charts her re-ascent from the depths and offers a new understanding of the passage
away from the false self, which is based upon others’ expectations, to the true self
of God’s unfolding intention. Her wise, inspiring book helps those in doubt and crisis
recognize the opportunity to “dismantle old masks and patterns and unfold a deeper, more
authentic self.” When the Heart Waits, which first appeared in hardcover in 1990, has
been embraced by thousands of spiritual seekers from many backgrounds and has become an
enduring classic in Christian spirituality.
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