Please say a little prayer for a young woman that has been led astray. She is most likely using/ possible a few chemical dependancys. Her whereabouts are hard to pinpoint and she has little contact with her family. When she makes an attempt to get help they are thwarted. She has other problems and they seem to be an endless pit of trouble. Her mother is a wreck. This is a heart breaking time and we need to have prayers to find a way back home. To safety and for health.
Thanks for being here. Thanks for caring.
I believe in the miracles of prayer, in the unseen. This life has many mysteries in it. But we are born to care for one another.
thank you. It is so hard to do anything right for this situation. She will call her mom in the early early morning and say she wants to come home and then she doesn't. Her mom says she can't get her away from this man she is with. He is using her very badly. And she just is incapable of helping herself out of this situation. She needs a miracle, in a very strong way.
I am praying for her a lot. And for her mother. It is just so heart breaking.
May she gather strength, and feel it so she can make the move out of the clutches of this situation.
I've never been a big believer in this...but it sounds like an "intervention" might be of use. In either way Dakota, I know we are about at the same point in recovery and it just sucks not to have the ability to 12 step people at the moment. 8 months is a fair amount of experience, but not enough to do that kind of work. If you get more involved, please take a person with you that has more time. Of course I will pray for the woman, but I'm also praying for you. At about 3 months one of the people I'd been counting days with and had become really close to went out. He broke his arm and called me to drive him to help him find his bag that he lost that had all his stuff in it. I just knew I didn't have it to give. He wound up losing his job, his home, and is on the streets now to my knowledge. It's sad as hell, but make sure you save yourself first.
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I pray she finds her way, Dakota. You have to stay bright & be light to all who might see & be inspired. It is a sad story that some may never find this but the hope is in that we stay true for those who might catch their own recovery. I am sorry for the souls who lose all they've had & for what comes of them sometimes. We stay, we pray, we hope & we help. That is all we can do & the rest is all in the care of though I don't understand the why & the how of it. It doesn't seem to make sense the losses that can happen.
The story of your friend made me think of Jen's son too. My prayers are with you too, Doll. On a grateful note, I'd like to say that one more may have found the fellowship at least. My sister went to her 3rd meeting yesterday & seems to have recieved the message. I hope that she too finds the grace & peace this program has to offer. So much suffering for too long. I pray also for the courage of those finding their way that we find the strength to forbear the grief for those who may not. May we all be granted serenity. Danielle x
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blessings to you who understand. You are the reason that there is any hope at all.
Intervention would be something. but the mom told me that she won't go with anyone and this man she is with whom is older, has quite the hold on her. I mentioned that when she calls in the night like that we should have some volunteers lined up to go and get her while the mood is in her to leave (which I do not think has happened too often but it has a couple times).
I don't know her well enough to make any judgment at all. My methods are different with family and friends that are people I know better. All I can do is support the mom, and Yes I know to be careful. I dont think the mom drinks or anything like that, but I really do not know for sure.
All I know is that it is a dire situation, with a lot of need for improvement. First being the gal is able to escape her increasingly destitute situation.
How many have to hit the very bottom before recognizing the need to change their lives?
To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. Ecclesiastes is a good one. (and I love that song!)
I am not so close to the situation that it is dragging me down, but I do think about them every single day. and many times during my day.
(prayers for compassion, and for love to give them strength -mother and daughter)
There is a bit of the younger me in that girl, wherever she is tonight. I was missing for over a year at one time, very young, and into all the wrong things. It was so dangerous and desperate. Know that I will be thinking of her, praying that something will call her back into the loving arms of her family, and into recovery. It must be so hard being the family, I know mine cried tears for so very long. There is hope, I and my family are living proof. She and her family have my deepest prayers tonight.
And thank you, you reminded me what it must have been like for my own family. But for the Grace of God. And I know he has enough Grace for this young girl as well.
Joni
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God's Grace is infinite and it saves us all in many points of our lives. Some is worse than others. It is good to know how well things just may turn out.
(prayers for goodness and strength) Praise God from whom all blessing flow!
