Book Monday--To Be a Mother-Author Ruth Axtell Morren

Today's book is To Be a Mother, one novella of a pair under that title by Author Ruth Axtell Morren. Here's the scoop!

Rianna Bruce is a strong woman. She watched her husband die, nursing him in a Washington, D.C. hospital at the height of the Civil War.

But she couldn’t leave then, not after witnessing the desperate need for nurses. So, she remained for the rest of the war. She couldn’t have survived this ordeal without a strong faith in God. It was during this time that she began a closer walk with the Lord through the friendship of a fellow nurse.

This faith kept her going, even when she felt unsure and inadequate, even when she lost the baby she carried, and during the years of self-imposed exile from her native village of Woods Haven, Maine. This was the one area of her life where she felt weak, too weak to come back home an evident failure: a childless war widow. So, instead, she continued nursing private patients for several years after the way.

But always a part of her yearned to return home…home not only to her family, but to the young man who’d first awakened her heart when she was barely fifteen. She’d heard he was a widow. What she didn’t know until she came back was that he also had a little girl…who now needed a mother.


Ruth says:

To write this story, I drew on the kind of strength I read about in history books of the women of the past century. I also wrote this from my own experience in my thirties, when my walk with the Lord deepened and I discovered the fullness of God’s Spirit. Rianna’s joy is a reflection of the joy I felt when I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and came to understand how real and how very near God is to us daily in whatever circumstances we go through."--Ruth

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Thanks, Ruth!

How many of you enjoy a second chance at love stories?--Lyn

First Page-A Family of Her Own-Author Ruth Axtell Morren

The First Page today is a novella from To Be A Mother by Author Ruth Axtell Morren:

Wood’s Harbor, Maine

1870

Noah Samuels walked past the crumbling stone wall, noting the wild rose creeping over everything. He kicked at a shoot growing across the paving stones. Tenacious stuff once it got going, almost impossible to get rid of, its roots spreading everywhere.

“Papa, why don’t we live here?” He glanced over at his daughter, who held his hand as they walked to the house he’d grown up in.

“It’s been sitting empty too long.” He remembered the place in his grandparents’ day. The lawn kept short by the grazing cow, the stone wall neatly stacked to form a boundary along the road, the walkway free of invading grass.

He dismissed the memory. No point in reminiscing about things long past. He was here to check on the storm damage from a few nights ago.

“Papa, who’s that?”

http://www.ruthaxtellmorren.com

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http://www.amazon.com/Be-Mother-Mountain-Rose-Historical/dp/0373828330/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270813981&sr=1-1

I don't know about you--but I want to know who that is too???