For most of her life, Debbi blamed her mother for everything that went wrong in her life: her father leaving, being sexually assaulted at age six by her brother’s friends and later by one of her mother’s boyfriends. She had a right to be angry, but not, as she would later realize, to hold on […]
Provoked: The Gavin Kielty Story—Part 1
Mothers fail us. Fathers fail us. Everybody fails us. But God’s grace is bigger than a parent’s failings and His love greater than even a human being’s most sacrificial. In the light of His unfathomable love, ours is just plain puny. Still, for those who cry out to Him—even with puny prayers—He fills that […]
Provoked: The Galvin Kielty Story – Part 2
(Continued from Part One) It Just Ain’t Fun No More Some addicts get “scared straight” into sobriety, some quit on their own and others just get bored of it. In Gavin’s case it was the latter. “I didn’t have anything going on in my life,” says Gavin. ”I was just getting high and it wasn’t […]
Russ’s Money Saving Story
Read About It: The Money Savings Program: Laying the Groundwork for a Brighter Future “When I Was Sick” – A Father Finds a Way to Be Near His Hospitalized Daughter “When you’re at the Mission, and you start working while you’re there, they really bend over backwards to help you—even more than they already do […]
