When the Heart Waits

Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions

By: Sue Monk Kidd

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

The bestselling author's inspiring autobiographical account of personal pain, spiritual awakening, and divine grace.

""Inspiring. Sue Monk Kidd is a direct literary descendant of Carson McCullers.""—Baltimore Sun

""Grounded in personal experience and bolstered with classic spiritual disciplines and Scripture, this book offers an alternative to fast-fix spirituality.""—Bookstore Journal

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."" Full of wisdom, poise, and grace, Kidd’s words will encourage us along our spiritual journey, toward becoming who we truly are.

Love her writing style of blending personal and theoretical

All the issues that are faced when making a decision to grow spiritually from a compassionate and realistic viewpoint.

The honesty

I loved the use of the cocoon to help explain and the story telling and memoir aspects. I loved everything about this book.

Read this book over time

Sue Monk Kidd is an amazing writer. This book, however, was written at a time in her life when spewing Bible verses in quick succession seemed the right thing to do. Maybe it works when reading a chapter a week, giving yourself time for reflection. There are insightful moments!

However, I did not figure this out until now, and frankly, 2/3 of the way through, I sped it up to 1.2 speed and quit listening altogether, half hour before the end.

Maybe the timing was off for me. I inhaled Dance of the Dissident Daughter when it was published. But now, age 72, a narrative meant to instill in me the patience of a caterpillar in chrysalis was poorly targeted. Thanks, anyway.