A Tale of Two Nurses #Continued Stories #Sequels

Have you ever finished reading a good book and wished for more? Read on.

 

This bestselling author team again combines their talents. Two young women, generations apart, face challenges in their service to those who need it most.

 

Historical note: "She made a difference."

 

 No one will ever know how many lives were saved because of Florence Nightingale, (1820-1910).

Considered the founder of modern nursing, she courageously determined to change existing hospital conditions where drunken, unfit women often served as nurses. She shocked society and her wealthy British parents by renouncing her social position, going into training, and learning of the crucial need for sanitation in caring for the sick.

During the war in Crimea in 1854, Florence and 38 assistant nurses fought their own war in old, dirty, unfinished Turkish barracks. She enlisted patients well enough to work and set them scrubbing. Florence and her faithful assistants struggled with the lack of food, bedding, and medical supplies, including bandages. She battled doctors who openly resented being dictated to by any woman. She refused to compromise and badgered British military officials until she got the desperately needed food and supplies.

Florence walked four miles of corridors every night to check on the wounded. Grateful British soldiers called her "The Lady with the Lamp."

 Lucy and Kiersten in Lamps of Hope also make a difference. Each fights her own war. These fictional characters represent the great army of nurses who have and will continue to serve and follow the path of Jesus when He said, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me” (Matthew 25:40, KJV).

 

 

By Dim and Flaring Lamps, by Colleen L. Reece 

 

 Lucy Danielson serves as a nurse with her doctor father in the Civil War, and

 plans to marry her childhood sweetheart. However, Jere’s father orders him to wed another girl and then join the Confederate Army. Will the battles raging at the front and on the home front never end?

  

 The Civil War, also called “The War Between the States,” divided families and pitted brother against brother. Each side fought for a Cause: the North to free the slaves and preserve the Union; the South to maintain a way of life begun by those who pioneered and won their lands against immeasurable odds.

 

Some incidents are based on stories handed down in my family. Legends of boys in their teens and grizzled men, who, at day’s end, often laid down their weapons and crossed battle lines. They played cards, swapped tobacco, and told stories about their homes, knowing the next day they would again fight one another.

 

 

 

  Beside the Golden Door, by Julie Reece-DeMarco

 

A dedicated nurse follows in the footsteps of her courageous ancestors

 Generations later, Kiersten Davis begins three nursing internships before following her dream to serve in war-torn countries. She trusts her instincts--until she makes an embarrassing judgment call and meets Brett Lewis. Can he help her learn compassion for those fighting drug addiction, alcoholism, and abuse?

The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, was formally dedicated by U.S. President Grover Cleveland on October 28, 1886. He said Liberty's light would “pierce the darkness of man's ignorance and oppression.” He was right. The Statue of Liberty soon became an international symbol of freedom.  In1903, “The New Colossus,” by Emma Lazarus, was added to a bronze plaque at the base of Liberty.

 “Give me your tired, your poor, 

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. 

 

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. 

 

I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

 

 

 

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