Virginia's faith was very practical. One of her favourite readings was from Micah. "He has told you, O mortal, what is good and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?" She lived that to the fullest. She believed that, while faith and belief in God is crucial, expression of that faith comes through helping others. One of her very first hymns was written about an incident that happened when she was nursing at the University Hospital in Edmonton, during the 1950's. She was working on a children's ward and watched a little boy, who was dying of a brain tumour, playing with another little one, recovering from polio.

My memory cherishes a boy