I received a call this week from an old client that was a participant in the Arms of Hope program last year. “Brittany, I’m free, justice has been served and I don’t have to be afraid anymore.”
When she first came to Arms of Hope she had journeyed through many dark lands that left her filled with fear, death, nightmares, hate, guilt and shame. I remember as we would meet weekly for counseling, during each session she would weep and struggled to believe that she would not have to live in fear the rest of her life. The pain was too much for her to face alone. As various court dates and traumatic memories knocked on her door, I watched her go from the valley to the mountain over and over again. She was hospitalized and placed in a residential care facility for a few weeks and it was hard not to ask the questions: Is the Arms of Hope program working? Lord is there healing for those who have seen death, who have lived in terror? “Lord have mercy, hear our prayers, hear our cries.”
