WordCrafter Non-Fiction
The Ones Who Stayed With Me: Raw Stories From the Bedside, by Nurse Sammy
Chronicles of the journey into the medical field as a young nurse and beyond, told with raw sensitivity and compassion. The Ones Who Stayed with Me offers small glimpses into the world of an L.P.N. put in difficult, often touching or humorous, situations—and Nurse Sammy’s courage, vulnerability, and insight are a gift to us all. In these pages, Nurse Sammy tells her story and that of those she met along the way.
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About the Author
Nurse Sammy has spent her life walking the quiet edges of human suffering and human grace. Long before she ever wore scrubs, she learned how to read a room by the way someone breathed and how to steady a shaking hand. How to listen to the stories people only tell when they think it might be their last night to say them. Nursing wasn’t a career she chose; it was the language her heart was already speaking.
She has worked in places where life is beginning, and in places where life is ending; in rooms lit by hope, and in rooms where grief hangs heavy in the doorway. Rehab centers, memory care halls, pediatric units, assisted living, private homes, wherever someone needed gentleness, she went. She became the one who held vigil, the one who noticed the quiet details, the one who stayed.
Her personal life has carried its own ache, abuse survived, love lost, a marriage that bruised the soul, another built from healing, and a grief that still hums beneath her ribs. She writes from the tender, broken places, from the nights she rebuilt herself alone, from the mornings she rose anyway. Her words are shaped by both the wounds and the resilience that followed.
The Ones Who Stayed With Me is her first published work, a collection of truths disguised as stories, honoring the people who left fingerprints on her life in ways they never saw. Her writing is soft but unflinching, honest but merciful, threaded with the belief that even in darkness, someone is always holding a light.
Nurse Sammy lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she continues to care, to witness, to learn, and to turn the hardest parts of her journey into something that might help someone else breathe a little easier.
Raise the Tide, by James Richards
Jesus illustrated His teachings with common stories (parables) that His listeners could relate to and apply to their lives. He knew that a picture, even a word picture, was worth a thousand words. In the same way, Pastor Jim Richards uses common, everyday experiences to convey spiritual truths. Dr. Joe Aldrich, past president of Multnomah University, where Jim attended Bible college, often said, “Get’em laughing, and while their mouths are open, shove the truth down their throats!” In much the same way, Pastor Richards uses everyday experiences, sometimes humorous, sometimes sad, to interest people with the spiritual truths he shares in each article. His sincerest hope is that these articles will help the reader desire to know Jesus Christ more intimately, to recognize the work God is doing in their lives, and give them a testimony to share with others for the glory of God.
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About the Author
As of 2021 he has served Copalis Community Church 29 years and is the second pastor in the 88 years since Copalis Community Church began in 1933. Jim’s weekly TV program Raise The Tide can be seen on christiancableministries.com at 3 pm Monday; 7:30 pm Thursday; 10 am Friday; and 11:00 am Sunday (PST). Jim’s third son Jeremy and his wife Stacy (and their 10 children) assist him in the ministry in Copalis Beach.
Jim thanks God for the many Christian brothers and sisters who attend the church in Copalis Beach. He also remembers and thanks God for the saints who have gone on to glory or greener pastures. He gives special thanks to his wife Sondra who is a wonderful helper in his ministry. He devotes this devotional book to his children and grandchildren, praying that they will follow him in his faith, believing that God rewards those who are committed to worshipping and serving Jesus Christ.
