The Weight of the Wait: God's Unexpected Purpose for Life's Hardest Seasons

by Sam Wegner

Sam Wegner thought he had learned to manage the heaviness of waiting as he cared for his wife during her battle with breast cancer, but when the disease metastasized to her bones and became incurable, he began to palpably feel it. Even though treatment significantly slowed tumor growth, it also extended the wait time for the inevitable result and added to his burden. Looking for relief, he turned to the Scriptures only to discover that God intentionally created waiting and uses it to drive a continuous cycle of spiritual development in our lives.



With engaging style, Sam unpacks key Bible passages which explain why God makes us wait, and how waiting is connected to hope, faith, and spiritual growth. Drawing from personal experience with waiting through joblessness and his wife's illness, he offers practical advice on how to enter rest instead of being crushed by the weight of the wait, how to find God's unexpected purpose for life's hardest seasons.

200 pages, Paperback

Published June 17, 2025

Reviews

[Dona B.]

I'm so glad I read "The Weight of the Wait" by Sam Wegner. But it was not a fast read at least not for me. I slowly read the book, underlined a lot and ended up with about 40 pages of notes. Waiting has always been a part of my life, but patiently waiting has not. I am the little child who is told to sit down and wait. And I respond "I'm sitting down on the outside but I'm standing up on the inside." But after reading this book, I believe there is hope for me to "wait" the way God wants me to wait. I never realized "waiting" had weight (you have to read the book). But God is good and He only does good (excerpt from the book and I believe it). I hope you take time to read this book. It just might change how you're facing something right now.

[Elizabeth F · Rating 4 out of 5]

A valuable look into the nature of biblical hope and all that it involves especially in the difficult seasons of testing and trials of life. The author uses his experiences walking alongside his wife with a terminal cancer diagnosis to look at biblical hope, waiting, faith, time, rest, joy, and how they are all connected. It showed some scriptures in a new way that I hadn’t seen before, and was very logical in its progression of ideas. It is challenging to be in the waiting and wait well, and this book helps to show the biblical path through.