Now and Not Yet
Pressing in When You’re Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Bestselling author Ruth Chou Simons guides readers who are restless in their current circumstances on a journey of growth, purpose, and pressing in.
Too often, we feel disappointed with our "right now"--our life circumstances, our relationships, our progress, our daily grind. We want to do so many things--good, godly things--but our situations don't allow us to step into them. Are we missing out on our own lives? Why does right now seem so far from where we really long to be?
Bestselling author Ruth Chou Simons reminds us 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. In Now and Not Yet, Ruth shows us how to.. .
embrace the biblical truth that someday is made up of thousands of right nows;discern how the difficult parts of our lives are actually a unique gift by discovering five ways to flip the script on a hard season;stop feeling trapped when we are not where we want to be with guided liturgies for what we are facing today; andlive faithfully in the tension between what is and what is not yet.
Your right now matters. And you can choose to press in and not check out. To know God is at work even when you don't see the progress you're looking for. To start where you are in this very moment. Because he's not through with you yet.
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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."