The Book of Waking Up: Experiencing the Divine Love That Reorders a Life
Written by Seth Haines and Shauna Niequist
Narrated by Seth Haines and Liz Stanislawski
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About this audiobook
The Book of Waking Up invites you to wake to your coping mechanisms, find the why behind your pain, and walk into the Divine Love of God.
The inevitable pain of life gives us many reasons to check out--and many ways to do it. Alcohol, entertainment, pills, shopping, porn, chasing success, cashing checks, and collecting social media "likes"--these and so many other things anesthetize us from the wounds of everyday living. As Seth Haines wrote in his award-winning book, Coming Clean, "We're all drunk on something."
In his compelling follow-up, The Book of Waking Up, Seth invites you into the story of healing. He invites you to see your coping mechanisms for what they are--lesser lovers, which cannot bring the peace, freedom, and wholeness you crave. Through guided reflections, sustainable soul practices, and stories from Seth's life and others, The Book of Waking Up points you toward the Divine Love of God that has the power to transform your life.
As Seth writes, "Addiction is misplaced adoration." Now, join him on a journey toward the only Love worth adoring, the only Love that cures a soul. Join him on the journey to waking up.
Seth Haines
Seth Haines has experienced the grace that comes from a God who lives in mystery, who works through both joy and pain. Seth’s first book Coming Clean: A Story of Faith received a Christianity Today Award of Merit in the publication’s 2016 book awards. Seth’s poetry and prose has been featured in various publications, including In Touch Magazine, Fathom Magazine, Tweetspeak Poetry, and at SethHaines.com. He makes his home in the Ozarks with his wife, Amber Haines, and their four sons.
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Reviews for The Book of Waking Up
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5What a disappointment, this book had potential, I think, but is not convincing. The title is misleading and the author has a hard time admitting his own addiction while listing a bunch of other, in his opinion, addictions. Probably my mistake was to get the audio book, read by the author in a pedantic and not convincing at all voice. Not his job to make an audio version, and that takes away power from the text. He sounded like a young kid repeating things he had not lived on his own skin, and if he did, I don’t know, it sounded like he had not or had no pathos for it. I hate to give bad reviews so I want to assume the paper version may be less disappointing than this one and I will direct future readers to that one.
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