Anticipatience

Anticipatience is a must-read for single women who are waiting on God for the desire of their hearts - a husband. It’s a book about real life, and it’s a book about hope – glorious, exciting, abundant hope. Within these pages, you’ll find the balance between anticipating God’s blessing and being patient for His perfect timing.

Anticipatience is a must-read for single women who are waiting on God for the desire of their hearts - a husband. It’s a book about real life, and it’s a book about hope – glorious, exciting, abundant hope. Within these pages, you’ll find the balance between anticipating God’s blessing and being patient for His perfect timing. It is not about launching out on our own in the frantic search for a mate or employing “Ten Steps to Finding the Man of Your Dreams”. It’s not a personal success story about how the author found her spouse. Rather, Anticipatience brings another side to the story. It's the side that takes a hard look at what's happened to our world, even our churches, and how God's plan for human relationships has been twisted and altered so that we're pushed sometimes to accept our singleness, deny our God-given desires and give up hope. God does call some of us to singleness, for that can be the platform He chooses in some lives to fully display His glory. If God is calling you to serve Him alone, then by all means celebrate it! But if a surrendered and willing heart tells you that’s not necessarily His will for your life, then this warm, amusing and often poignant book is for you. Sharon Virkler believes that God has a message for women who don’t feel called to a lifetime of singleness. It’s the message of Anticipatience. This e-book is an updated and revised edition of the 2004 print version of Anticipatience. Chapter Eight – “A Different View of Singles in the Church” contains new statistics and a revised look at singles in the church today. Also included in this update are questions for reflection and discussion, and a list of all scripture references for each chapter.

Sharon Virkler was born and raised in Towaco, New Jersey, the second of four children in the family. She’s a typical middle child. Sharon attended Northeastern Bible College in Essex Fells, New Jersey, and received a Diploma in Biblical Literature. She then attended Mountainside Hospital School of Nursing in Montclair, New Jersey and became licensed as a Registered Nurse. Following a move to Florida, the groundwork for Anticipatience was born as Sharon prepared weekly Bible studies for a group of single women seeking to know what God had to say about singleness, relationships and marriage. While she never expected to still be single at this point in her life, her passion for the principles of Anticipatience remains just as strong, and she still believes that God can and will provide a husband for her. Sharon has worked as the campus nurse in the student health center at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida since 2006. She loves working with college students, and particularly enjoys her time serving as a mentor to young women. She is a member of Lake Osborne Presbyterian Church in Lake Worth, Florida. Sharon loves reading books that make her think, getting up to watch the sunrise, visiting National Parks, spending time with the greatest family in the world, trying out new recipes on willing friends, good coffee and laughing at the most inconsequential things. And she has no doubt that God has an amazing plan for her life. Anticipatience – A New Word of Hope for Single Women was first published as a paperback by Green Key Books in 2004. The book was translated into Spanish the following year by the Christian Literature Crusade under the title “El arte de esperar sin desesperar”. Sharon began writing her blog, “Anticipatience – Lessons Learned in the Waiting” in 2010 (http://sharonvirkler.wordpress.com/). A friend from Chile translates the blog entries into Spanish at http://elartedeesperar.wordpress.com/