In dealing with life and death in the NICU, Victoria Leland would often jot down and tuck away in a shoebox scripture verses that helped her understand the agony, the elation, the miracles, and the heartache she so often witnessed. As she became an avid amateur photographer and started taking pictures of her patients in the NICU, she collected her favorite neonatal photographs and added them to that shoebox, finding real therapeutic value in them. The Work of Your Hand compiles those verses, images, and her meditations on prayerfully working through the NICU experience. Her hope is to uplift Christian parents currently trying to cope with this very difficult life experience.
Victoria Leland, RNVictoria Leland, RN, earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. She practiced as a hospital bedside nurse for twenty-seven years, twenty of which were in Neonatal Intensive Care. She is an accomplished photographer and has completed two national traveling photo exhibits for the March of Dimes. She is the mother of a prematurely born child and also the author of The Work of Your Hand: Christian Meditations for Parents of Critically Ill Babies in Neonatal Intensive Care.