“I will wait for you” goes beyond death and is the deepest expression of the fact that faith and hope may pass but that love will remain forever. “I will wait for you” is an expression of solidarity which breaks through the chains of death. At that moment John is no longer a chaplain trying to do a good piece of counseling, and Mr. Harrison is no longer a farm worker doubting if he will make it through the operation; rather they are two men who reawaken in each other the deepest human intuition, that life is eternal and cannot be made futile by a biological process.
