Waiting for Wonder

“Are you tired of waiting? Have you given up hope? Follow the journey of Sarah
and make this book your traveling companion. With rich insights and refreshing
hope, this powerful yet gentle gem will transform your weariness into wonder as
you see with new eyes God’s sacred and joyful purposes in your own wilderness
of waiting. This book of encouragement is one you will turn to often and will want
to share with your friends.”
- JUDY GORDON MORROW, author of The Listening Heart

“If you have ever felt forgotten, disappointed by life’s outcomes or left wondering
if you know how to hear God’s voice, Waiting for Wonder is for you. Journeying
with Sarah as she waits for God’s promises to come to pass is heartrending and
riveting. Marlo unveils, chapter by chapter, how hope springs up, even in your
own life, when God is at work, hemming you in with wonder on every side.”
- SUSANNA FOTH AUGHTMON, author of I Blame Eve, Breathing
Through, A Trip Around the Sun, and Hope Sings

“Waiting for Wonder by Marlo Schalesky touched my heart at a time when I was
waiting for my own sense of wonder from the Lord. This book is one I could have
highlighted sentence after sentence to refer back and remind myself of what is
true. For instance, in one place she tells us that God is not thwarted by the actions
of others and later hits home with ‘sometimes what is happening is not all about
you. Sometimes God is working a miracle in someone else.’ I loved that because
too often when life’s trials hit home I want to make it personal. And while God
may have a lesson for me in said trial, it’s possible that He is using the trial for
someone else—and I just happen to be in the way or part of the relationship—or
even part of God’s plan.

Waiting for Wonder is about hope. I have studied the life of Sarai/Sarah and
found Schalesky’s opinions to be very applicable and believable. She has taken an
Old Testament story of heartache and struggle and forever waiting on God and
turned it into a reason for us to trust Him with our lives today. If God wants us to
wait as He did with Sarah, then maybe we need to learn some of the lessons she
did. Engaging story. Well worth reading!”
- JILL EILEEN SMITH, best-selling author of The Crimson Cord and
The Wives of King David series.

“I started Waiting for Wonder with no concept of what I was in for—certainly not
to be grabbed and held spellbound during the introduction—and not the tears
that would well at the most inopportune times from that point forward. I sensed the Holy Spirit’s hand in so many places along the way. I heard the voice of Jesus
saying come closer, dig deeper, trust more fully. I plan to share this book with as
many as will listen. It’s truly a must read for every Christian.”
- MIRALEE FERRELL, best-selling, award-winning author of
inspirational fiction

“In the drive-thru, E-Z, gotta-have-it-now world that is ours, waiting you’d think
is a fat waste of time. Marlo Schalesky thinks otherwise, and her wisdom is soulful
antidote, insightful balm. In plainspoken poetry she probes the not-oft-explored
landscape: the hollow canyons of our souls, the barrenness that leaves us aching,
gasping, teetering at the precipice of doubt and despair. Schalesky is a writer
whose hard-won courage makes her a truth-teller we can lean on, those of us who
know barrenness in its varied iterations. She writes us into hope. And along the
way illuminates the pure wonder of waiting.”
- BARBARA MAHANY, author of Slowing Time

“No one can experience this book and not be moved—or changed. This is
required reading for any Christian who wants to understand the God whose ways
are not our ways and trust Him still.”
- DR. REBECCA PRICE JANNEY, author of 19 books,
historian, speaker

“Can a book calm you and stimulate you simultaneously? Waiting for Wonder settles the angst of the modern soul long enough to carve out a quiet space where a
reader can receive the challenge to follow Jesus deeper. Schalesky’s words quietly
slipped into my soul where God used them to wedge loose rock-hard places to
make room for transformation and life. The writer did my favorite thing: respecting
biblical characters as the human beings they were, she sifted through their stories
for the truth that remains transformative for the modern soul and delivered
this truth with humility and grace. I can’t wait to read it again.”
- LORI STANLEY ROELEVELD, author of Jesus and the Beanstalk

“Waiting for Wonder doesn’t merely reveal Marlo Schalesky’s elegance with language, devotion to the unfailing truth of God’s Word, and her ability to discover
wonder-filled moments. The book does what all good books should: it invites us
to think. And in the thinking and pondering, our hearts are opened to how God
infuses breathless wonder in our waiting.”
- CYNTHIA RUCHTI, speaker and author of Ragged Hope and Tattered and Mended