Waiting on Heaven

When Victoria Mason Acree's bright, joyful daughter Paris is diagnosed with terminal brain-stem cancer at age eight, the two embark on a heartbreaking journey through hospitals, treatments, and finally hospice at home. Paris faces death with startling peace and uncanny insight—even predicting her mother's own breast cancer. After Paris passes, Victoria's overwhelming grief gives way to a profound out-of-body experience that reshapes her beliefs about consciousness, faith, and eternal life. A tender, spiritually searching tribute to a remarkable child.

• A mother's harrowing, ultimately hopeful account of losing her ten-year-old to brain cancer—and the out-of-body experience that gave her peace.
• The child who faced her own death with laughter, planned her own memorial, and predicted her mother's cancer.
• For anyone who has asked 'Where is God?' in the face of a child's death.
• A grief memoir that argues death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of birth.

“How I love you, I can't explain. I'm like a rose, already bloomed and ready to sing. Though I love you, I have to go. Heavenly Father is calling me home.”

Perfect for a bereaved parent or grief-support reader seeking comfort and an afterlife perspective, open to spiritual and near-death-experience themes drawn from Christianity, meditation, and metaphysics.