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4.5 Motivation to seek treatment[…]I lost my father, it’s been 11 months since he died and he was an alcohol addict. [...]And he said to me, ’daughter, look, you’re between life and death, you’re going to stop... “[...]I’ve seen five people being killed and this motivate me to stop the drug use. In addition to stab me, I still put my finger inside my wound and started to move, like this, and did not feel anything, nothing, no pain... When a "crack" forms in life, whether through drug abuse, illness or a broken marriage, Mosteller believes that an inner light often shines through, birthing new life and hope. In each of the heartrending stories she recounts in this collection, the literary executor for spiritual writer Henri Nouwen plunges readers into the dark cracks of individual lives, showing how each was restored. Mosteller, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph, drew these stories from her network of relationships in the international L'Arche community for developm