Mariah shares how your support gives her hope!
“I’m alive. I am thriving – not just surviving anymore.”
After a difficult divorce, Mariah realized her glass of wine with dinner had escalated into full-blown alcoholism. But she was helpless to stop it on her own. She was hospitalized due to her addiction. “But I kept drinking. I was literally on a death spiral,” she says.
“I remember praying ‘God, take me in my sleep or show me where you want me. Because I’m done,’” she says. “And in my blackout, I made an appointment to detox. I don’t remember doing it, but I wrote it down and that’s when I came into the Mission.”
She kept the appointment and set her life on a different path. She detoxed and graduated from the Christian Addiction Recovery Education Program. “For someone like me, no insurance, nowhere else to go, the fact that you can just walk through these doors and be completely taken care of is just incredible.”
“This Mission is essential. It’s a matter of life and death.”
Since completing the program a decade ago, Mariah’s life has been transformed. Her faith in God has been rekindled. “I grew up in a very religious family, but it wasn’t until I came to the Mission that I was introduced to who Christ really is,” she says. “I had all the knowledge in my brain, but I didn’t have it in my heart.” She has been able to watch her children grow up and have children of their own. She also joined the Mission’s staff to help others through the same challenges she faced. “Being a part of lives that are changing is such a gift.” Your gifts are bearing fruit in the lives of people like Mariah. Now, her heart is full of hope this fall… thanks to your kindness! “Since coming to the Mission, I’m alive. I am thriving – not just surviving anymore.”
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