She has begun moving in with us and is living downstairs with Gretchen.
Brook is working two different jobs.  One is part time and the other is full
time.  Several years ago, Brook was riding with a van load of kids she
should not have been with.  Some had criminal records.  The driver lost
control of the van and some of the passengers were injured.  At least one
person, as I recall, was killed.  Brook's back was broken and she was laying
on the boy who was killed until the paramedics arrived.  Not a pleasant
memory.  Brook was in the hospital for some time.  Eventually the insurance
paid off and Brook's mother spent it all and Brook received nothing.  Her
father split and no one knows where he is and her mother died last year and
she has no knowledge of where her brother and sister are now either.  She
asked if she could move in because of her fears, and the fact she has been
clean for 7 weeks, until last night, and she said she needs a mom and a dad.
Today, she became so frightened, I was wondering if she could even make it
to work.  She is being honest with me but she is a little girl trying to be
an adult right now due to the trauma she suffered as a little girl.  At
least half of the women I pray with are, in many respects, still like girls
due to the trauma.  Jesus has a thing, in a manner of speaking, for children
and that's why He reminded us that we are His children.  It's nice to have a
dad/father when you are little, isn't it?  Brook is about as broken of a
person I have every known.  She will not make it without the Lord.  Shoot,
none of us will make it without the Lord.

Phil.

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