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The Pause: From Elsewhere to God

The Pause: From Elsewhere to God

White, Matt

Paperback

Religion General Christian Living

ISBN13: 9798250006378
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 27 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A seven-year-old asked her mother: Are you HERE here? She wasn't. Her phone was in her hand, her mind was on tomorrow, and her coffee had gone cold an hour ago. She was scrolling inside the One she was looking for.

You know the feeling. The 2 AM rehearsal that never solves anything. The scroll you did not mean to start. The emptiness that stays even when life looks full. The loneliness of being in the room and still not feeling known. The plan you keep tightening because loosening it would mean trusting God with tomorrow.

Everyone frames the spiritual life as a search for God. This book begins one step earlier: before you started searching for Him, He had already been searching for you. The question is not only Where is God? but also Where are you? He has been asking it every time you reach for the phone at 3 AM.

Your soul does not want too much. It has been asking in the wrong places.

The Pause reads like a novel and is built like nonfiction: three interwoven lives across nine chapters, with a narrator who steps between the scenes to reveal the deeper pattern inside ordinary life. As the chapters unfold, their stories move from anxiety and emptiness to grief, family patterns, breath, prayer, and homecoming. By the end, they discover what you do: the room was never empty. The distance you feel is not between you and God, but between where your body is and where your mind has gone.

The Pause does not create presence. It creates a gap in the noise long enough to notice the presence that was already there. It is a small door into a big room: a relationship with the living Christ.

The anxiety that keeps you up at night already has the raw materials of prayer: intensity, focus, repetition, persistence. Same fire. It just needs to turn.

This book is for you if:

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