After the ultimate betrayal, Amanda relied on the love of family, friends, and her faith to get through the heartache. She throws herself into her work not sure if she could ever let go of the past pain and disappointments and love again. A new career led her to meet David, who'd lost the love of his life and never expected to love again.
Lady Regina, widow of a British embassy attaché, fancies herself royalty. Daughters, proper Elizabeth and free spirited Victoria, teach at Chateau De Grace, their small "school of finesse and creativity." Victoria presents boyfriend Grady Carson as a college professor, rather than a common mechanic. Thanks to Phipps, family lawyer and guardian of their finances, and to nine year old exasperating neighbor, Delcie Perkins, the truth is revealed. Lady Regina assigns Grady Carson to low grade tasks, hoping to showcase his common "grease monkey" status to Victoria. The plan backfires when Victoria joins Grady in the menial activities. At Phipps urging, the ladies rent rooms to Professor Reynard Duvier, wealthy, Oxford educated eccentric from Vienna, assigned to work with Colonel Perkins on a highly classified American project. Lady Regina, thrilled with the Professor's elitist background, approves Elizabeth's acceptance of an expensive engagement ring. An intelligent and practical Grady finally charms Lady Regina, endearing her further by arranging outings in her prized, ancient Rolls Royce, chauffered by his employee, handsome, dimpled Gideon, who is captivated with Elizabeth. Grady and Victoria are now secretly engaged. Grady notifies authorities of a skulking stranger and is ignored. Later, Elsa and Otis, cook and gardener, observe the stranger with binoculars surveying the Château. Grady and Gideon attempt a citizen's arrest, and are soundly trounced and incarcerated, discovering the Professor is under government surveillance as a spy. The Professor, pleading "persecution" to Elizabeth, pawns her ring to purchase two tickets to Vienna. As Elizabeth packs, he buys one ticket to Argentina, abandoning her. Devastated by the loss of the ring, a materialistic Elizabeth secretly admires handsome Gideon. Grady buys disgraced Colonel Perkins' house nearby, pleasing Lady Regina, who is now being courted by family lawyer, Phipps.
Helen Carroll's life has led her all across the Western States and as far afield as India and Nepal. She's been a meter maid, furniture salesperson, waitress, and Boeing assembly worker. Mostly, though, she has been a mother, wife and grandmother. Her keen observation of life is evident in her memories.
Why didn't God answer my prayer? "Prayer is not checking off answers on a wish list," writes Helen Grace Lescheid. "When we focus on 'give me answers' we become manipulative in our praying. We act as though God exists to serve us. But prayer is primarily growing a love relationship with God."In this compelling book on prayer, Lescheid discusses the following: -What is God like? -How does He answer prayer? -Does prayer change God or change me? -What role does faith play? -Is prayer ever wasted? -What is the chief purpose of prayer? As we get to know God, we learn to trust Him. Instead of praying "give me specific answers" we learn to pray "your will be done." In connecting with the universal purposes of God, we reach answers bigger and better than we imagined. Helen Grace Lescheid is the author of five books and hundreds of magazine articles published internationally in magazines such as Reader's Digest, Guideposts, and Lydia (Germany). Her stories have also been published in forty books either in English or in German. She is a regular contributor to Daily Guideposts and TruthMedia. See www.helenlescheid.com.
Mary Anne's story is both ordinary and extraordinary. Ordinary because she was searching for the same things many of us search for: love, understanding and purpose; and extraordinary because she had to go through hell to find them. Her life was turbulent. Born in a decaying northern town to a dysfunctional family in the 1960s, Mary Anne had to endure mental, physical, and sexual abuse and cope with the devastating effects of parental alcoholism and suicide. She had her self-esteem and confidence crushed by two disastrous marriages, and she lives with the emotional and physical scars caused by a surgical procedure which has become the medical scandal of our age: mesh implants. But, despite everything, she always remained determined to endure and to find something better. The Grace of a Nightingale is a brilliantly heartfelt odyssey of survival. Even in her darkest moments, Mary Anne's courage and faith, combined with her passionate appreciation of beauty in nature, books and music, bring glimpses of light and hope. On her journey through life, Mary Anne's mat carriers, both friends and strangers, supported her to triumph over adversity. And, like all the best stories, there is a happy ending.
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