“I can’t wait to be a mother again”
“After years of struggling with meth addiction, I was clean for a couple of years. Then I almost died. I had to have brain surgery for three aneurysms. When I woke up in that hospital bed, I craved meth again. And I had lost most of my memory. They even had to tell me I had two beautiful children—I had no idea.
Soon, I started using drugs again. I have a very loving family and they didn’t want to continue to get their hearts broken. So I came to Rockford to go to a Christian recovery home for women, and I did get clean there. But then as I started a job in Rockford, I also started drinking—trading one addiction for another. That’s when I came to Rockford Rescue Mission’s Women’s Crisis Center, and then eventually to the Life Recovery Program.
The Mission has shown me God, full force. Some days are harder than others. But God is showing Himself in truly tremendously beautiful ways. The other women in the program help lift me up in incredible ways. We’re all going through stuff, but we lean on each other. We speak life into each other every day, all day. And the staff here—they’re teaching me how to change my mindset and how I look at things. They hold you accountable, but accountability is something I haven’t had in years. I needed that.
God has been restoring my memory—including some things that I don’t want restored but that need to be brought to the light in order to never go back. Generational curses are being broken. I can’t wait to be a mother again.”
