Book excerpt: Dating is like an audition. You put on your best and do your best to be in character, and you hope to be chosen for the leading role. Yet when you're not chosen, after a while disappointment, unworthiness, and insecurity mount, threatening your inner peace and thoughts of ever finding the one. When Jolene entered the dating world in her twenties, she thought she'd find happiness. Instead, she experienced one heartbreak after another. In journaling and questioning why she could never latch on to a date, she learned valuable lessons that eventually helped her grasp true inner peace and security. Now happily married to the love of her life, Jolene shares her inspirational collection of personal dating stories, with the goal of helping singles and newly married women grasp the foundational elements that help relationships last, including: knowing what you want establishing healthy boundaries communicating effectively including friends and family listening to the Holy Spirit Though life won't always be perfect, and you struggle with loneliness in singleness or confusion in dating the wrong person, He's Worth the Wait: The Christian Gal's Guide to Dating and Waiting empowers you to seek after a perfect God who gives perfect peace and walks with you as you wait in patient expectation for the person He has for you.