Do you need an intervention?

It was no surprise that a rainbow appeared
during our visit at Guest House.

The Sisters of Providence leadership team just spent three days at an intensive workshop sponsored by Guest House for Religious Women, a ministry dedicated to providing the information, education, treatment and care needed to assure that women religious suffering from alcoholism and other specified addictions, have the best opportunity for quality recovery.

Entitled Walking with the Wounded, the workshop offered leaders and ministers of care the opportunity to understand addiction problems and compulsive behavior in our sisters. I came home with a binder full of information and a head full of knowledge.

But nothing touched my heart more than the experience of being with one of the sisters who is in treatment and lives at Guest House. We shared meals with the sisters who live there, and it was almost at the end of our first meal together that this sister explained how and why she had come to Guest House.

The details aren’t really important. What brought her to seek healing was an intervention from someone who was able to break through whatever was holding her captive with a message of loving care. She told us, “They cared enough to help me…….”

Providence is another name for God’s loving care. We are called to be instruments of that Providence.

Some days, I really need this kind of intervention. I need someone to break through whatever struggles or worries are keeping me from being my best self. And, some days, I know I can be that Providence for
others.

I have come home from this workshop with a binder full of information and a head full of knowledge but also a new way of understanding intervention. My heart is full of hope that this experience will help me deal more compassionately with all the people of my life, myself included.