After The Suffering There Is Joy (Part 4)

At 3.30.am. that day my daughter phoned her friend and told her that she had felt something strange come over her and for the first time she really did want help to be free from drugs, her friend said she believed her because she sounded sincere and she then went on to say phone your mum, but my daughter felt a bit hesitant and said "oh she's not really talking to me" and her friend then said go on, just tell her exactly as you have told me. Needless to say she did and my first reaction was one of doubt, but I decided to listen to her, I half listened to her until she said (in her own words) "mum I don't really know what's happened to me but something just came over me and I really have had enough of living like this. I can't go on anymore like this it's not fair on the baby or anyone else". Then it hit me Oh My God! the 3.0 clock prayer, the Divine Mercy Chaplet. I knew it was this prayer, I couldn't contain myself I just knew that God had been listening to me. I was like someone deranged! I couldn't shut up (and still haven't!) off I went down to her house, she looked quite surprised to see me so soon.

Her partner was home from work then and we started to discuss what sort of help we could get for her, we had already tried everything from detox centres , methadone, to taking her to Australia, to Greece you name it we tried it. Her partner even suggested paying for private treatment but my daughter knew that wasn't going to work. We talked and talked. As I was about to leave she said "mum hasn't that Holy place where you are going to got something to help addicts"(I couldn't believe she had remembered) I said well it has but I'm sure it's only for boys not girls, she said it doesn't matter I would love to go and see for myself to see if it works. I said do you mean this, "Yes" she said with a different sort of determination, but, she said "What about the baby?" and without thinking I said "Oh she's coming with us "

The next day I phoned Derek and asked about my daughter and granddaughter joining us on the Pilgrimage and he found it quite amusing that my granddaughter would be one of the youngest pilgrims to have gone with Peace Tours.

Then Derek remembered this bloke called Phil who worked helping young boys who were suffering from not just drug addiction but also from alcohol addiction. He gave me Phil's phone number, I had never spoken to him before but I immediately felt at ease with him, I told him about my problem he asked me some questions and gave me some advice, he then asked me if I had been the one to suggest that my daughter went to Medjugorje, I told him it wasn't, that it had been her own idea. He said "That was a great blessing and added that God always answers a Mothers prayer." I will never forget those words.