In the most basic meaning of the Incarnation, where there is ultimate illness, is acts of love—visiting, holding, affirming, listening, and making arrangements—which are the bread of life.
Interpreter Magazine calls Waiting and Loving: "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."