Waiting and Loving

About the Book

In the most basic meaning of the Incarnation, where there is ultimate illness, it is acts of loveisiting, holding, affirming, listening, making arrangementshich are the bread of life. They are the Bread of Life.

"In a sensitive account that draws readers into the persons and the situation, the author has made a warm, loving journal of her father's last illness and death. This moving chronicle of the process of dealing with death as a day-by-day reality will bring comfort to families experiencing similar times."?i>Interpreter Magazine

About the Author

Martha Whitmore Hickman is author of many books for children and adults, among them Healing After Loss, The Growing Season, And God Created Squash, and the novel, Such Good People. She is a native of Massachusetts and currently lives with her husband in Nashville, Tennessee.