Now and Not Yet
Pressing in When You’re Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More
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Your right now matters. Discover how to press in and not check out.
Do you ever feel like your present moment is so far from where you really long to be? Do you ever struggle with embracing your right now because you are so focused on the future?
Too often, we feel disappointed with our "right now"—our life circumstances, our relationships, our lack progress towards our dreams and goals, our daily grind. We want to do so many things—good, godly things—but our situations don't allow us to step into them.
In Now and Not Yet, bestselling author and artist Ruth Chou Simons has a powerful message for you when you're restless in your current season of life and just waiting—waiting to get beyond the pain, waiting for God to show up, waiting to get to tomorrow—she reminds you that it's okay to not like the right now we've been given, but we don't have to like it to lean in.
Join Ruth as she shares a beautiful invitation for you to:
Embrace the biblical truth that someday is made up of thousands of right nowsDiscern how the difficult parts of your life are actually a unique gift from God by discovering five ways to flip the script on a hard seasonStop feeling trapped when you're not where you want to with guided liturgies for what you are facing todayLive faithfully in the tension between what is and what is not yet
Now and Not Yet will help you see that your right now matters. And you can choose to press in and not check out. With deep compassion, Ruth will help you see how God is profoundly present, how He wastes nothing, how He’s active and using this exact moment for the very purposes he's calling you to.
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Believers who feel dissatisfied with their lives should "step into the ways God wants to change " rather than "trying to change circumstances," according to this openhearted guide from Simons (When Strivings Cease), founder of the Christian lifestyle brand GraceLaced. Instead of "numb ourselves with distractions," readers should turn "to prayer instead of fretting," appreciate the present moment, and persist in their personal and spiritual work even when "we think our labors go unnoticed," because "you don't have to be blooming to be growing." Delving into the Bible, Simons points to the Israelites' 40 years in the wilderness to urge those stuck in "desert places" of their own to uncover the "comforts, idols, and treasures we lean on for sustenance" and replace them with faith. While those struggling with chronic illness (one of Simons's examples of a desert place) may be less-than-satisfied with her suggestion to "create rhythms that help you remember God," such as by assembling a good hymn playlist, she effectively grounds other bits of advice in vulnerable personal anecdotes, recalling, for example, how she dreamed of her "not-yet" career goals during the years she spent raising her children. Readers will be fortified by Simons's steady assurances that "you're not right where you are on accident."
