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In Waiting for Good News, Sally L. Wilke gathers together the stories and experiences of caregivers facing chronic illnesses of loved ones--children, husbands, fathers, mothers, and friends. Each chapter focuses on specific interdependent issues in caregiving: diagnosis, what caregivers feel and experience, the challenges caregivers and patients face, a parent's response to a chronically ill child, issues of control and what needs to be done, and where caregivers can find help. An excellent and important book that needs to be in the libraries every pastor, healthcare giver, or person facing a chronic illness and their care givers. --Dr. Paul O. Ingram, Professor Emeritus of Religion, Pacific Lutheran University Both informative and compelling, Waiting for Good News by Sally L. Wilke invites deep involvement. Her experiences of living with chronic illness in several contexts and her weaving together of others' stories produce a moving backdrop to engage the reader. Her approach to integrating narrative, medical information, psychological and systemic processes, practical wisdom, and spiritual tools is masterful. Down-to-earth and rich with shared vulnerability, this volume will help pastors, caregivers, and especially people who are living with or caring for those with chronic conditions. Wilke teaches us the importance of honoring grief, learning to ask for help, and discovering God's presence in the midst of it all. --Rev. Dr. John Beck, co-pastor, Pointe of Grace Lutheran Church, Mukilteo, WA Sally L. Wilke's Waiting for Good News belongs on every caregiver's nightstand as well as the reserve shelves of the seminary, medical, and nursing school libraries. Written with clarity and grace, she seamlessly weaves together story, wise professional counsel, and spiritual consolation for those living with chronic illness. As in the Bible itself, the physical, family, and social realities of illness are laid bare. A real-world theologian of the cross, she proclaims hope not in denial of reality but, as did Luther, in 'saying what a thing actually is.' Lament and assurance walk side by side. --Rev. Dr. John A. Bernsten, author of Cross-Shaped Leadership: On the Rough and Tumble of Parish Practice With engaging stories, personal experience, and a strong faith witness, Sally L. Wilke offers those of us dealing with difficult physical conditions--and our caregivers--something basic: a much-needed conversation with a friend who's been down the same road. --Bob Sitze, author of It's Not Too Late: A Field Guide to Hope In this wise and hopeful book, Sally L. Wilke embodies one of her references who says, 'A witness is always stronger when it comes out of personal experience.' Filled with touching stories from her own family and from those with whom she has ministered, along with wise expert and rich spiritual resources for coping with life challenges, Wilke offers graceful pathways of resilience for hopeful living in the face of serious illness. --Dr. Paul Hopkins, Pastoral Counselor

In Waiting for Good News, Sally L. Wilke gathers together the stories and experiences of caregivers facing chronic illnesses of loved ones--children, husbands, fathers, mothers, and friends. Each chapter focuses on specific interdependent issues in caregiving: diagnosis, what caregivers feel and experience, the challenges caregivers and patients face, a parent's response to a chronically ill child, issues of control and what needs to be done, and where caregivers can find help. An excellent and important book that needs to be in the libraries every pastor, healthcare giver, or person facing a chronic illness and their care givers. --Dr. Paul O. Ingram, Professor Emeritus of Religion, Pacific Lutheran University Both informative and compelling, Waiting for Good News by Sally L. Wilke invites deep involvement. Her experiences of living with chronic illness in several contexts and her weaving together of others' stories produce a moving backdrop to engage the reader. Her approach to integrating narrative, medical information, psychological and systemic processes, practical wisdom, and spiritual tools is masterful. Down-to-earth and rich with shared vulnerability, this volume will help pastors, caregivers, and especially people who are living with or caring for those with chronic conditions. Wilke teaches us the importance of honoring grief, learning to ask for help, and discovering God's presence in the midst of it all. --Rev. Dr. John Beck, co-pastor, Pointe of Grace Lutheran Church, Mukilteo, WA Sally L. Wilke's Waiting for Good News belongs on every caregiver's nightstand as well as the reserve shelves of the seminary, medical, and nursing school libraries. Written with clarity and grace, she seamlessly weaves together story, wise professional counsel, and spiritual consolation for those living with chronic illness. As in the Bible itself, the physical, family, and social realities of illness are laid bare. A real-world theologian of the cross, she proclaims hope not in denial of reality but, as did Luther, in 'saying what a thing actually is.' Lament and assurance walk side by side. --Rev. Dr. John A. Bernsten, author of Cross-Shaped Leadership: On the Rough and Tumble of Parish Practice With engaging stories, personal experience, and a strong faith witness, Sally L. Wilke offers those of us dealing with difficult physical conditions--and our caregivers--something basic: a much-needed conversation with a friend who's been down the same road. --Bob Sitze, author of It's Not Too Late: A Field Guide to Hope In this wise and hopeful book, Sally L. Wilke embodies one of her references who says, 'A witness is always stronger when it comes out of personal experience.' Filled with touching stories from her own family and from those with whom she has ministered, along with wise expert and rich spiritual resources for coping with life challenges, Wilke offers graceful pathways of resilience for hopeful living in the face of serious illness. --Dr. Paul Hopkins, Pastoral Counselor

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Sally Wilke's father died too young, his body destroyed by diabetes and kidney failure. Years later, her husband's liver transplant and eventual death deepened her knowledge and feelings about living with illness and pain. Now a Lutheran pastor, Wilke uses her own and others' stories to offer hope and assurance of God's presence on a journey with chronic illness.

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