Forgive Our Trespasses

About the Book

This is Marcia's story, a life of hardships and losses, disappointments and despair. Yet, in her struggle to overcome, she learns the true meaning of love and forgiveness from others.

In the middle of this fictional life story, there are three chapters based on her nursing experiences. The author, who took her nurse's training in the Second World War years, has given her training experiences to Marcia as she remembers them from so long ago.

Marcia's story tells us, though life can be hard, we can ultimately find joy and forgiveness of our trespasses. Acceptance and understanding lie on the other side of loss. There is no short cut.

This is Marcia's story, a life of hardships and losses, disappointments and despair. Yet, in her struggle to overcome, she learns the true meaning of love and forgiveness from others.

In the middle of this fictional life story, there are three chapters based on her nursing experiences. The author, who took her nurse's training in the Second World War years, has given her training experiences to Marcia as she remembers them from so long ago.

Marcia's story tells us, though life can be hard, we can ultimately find joy and forgiveness of our trespasses. Acceptance and understanding lie on the other side of loss. There is no short cut.

About the Author

Born and raised on a Saskatchewan farm, Belva received her registered nurse's diploma after three years in a prairie hospital school of nursing. After graduation, she nursed across Canada from Vancouver Island to Halifax, then down the south shore of Nova Scotia, following her husband who, in wartime, was in the Royal Canadian Navy.

The war years over, they returned to the western prairies and raised three sons. At forty, the author returned to her nursing career with refresher courses in various hospitals and updating knowledge at the University of Alberta to qualify for a hospital charge position where she remained for twenty years. Taking an early retirement, she filled her life with many writing courses through the Department of Extension at the University of Alberta. After her husband's death, she decided to write the book she had always intended and Forgive Our Trespasses is the result of her decision.