“When I arrived, I was bitter and angry, but I knew this was the right place to be. And through prayer, changes are occurring in me. My heart is still hard around the edges, and it’s very hard for me to let somebody hug me. But now, I wake up in the morning and I start to pray for the other women in the Mission. Surely, God is changing me to become the person that I want and need to be. I’m eight months clean, and I will soon graduate from the recovery program.”