tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6676006585094111478.post529487455539559274..comments2016-07-27T07:17:38.399+01:00Comments on The Shadow of Victory: April 7th Moving onirene mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03891063021325829925noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6676006585094111478.post-63218977657292532982009-07-30T16:36:43.832+01:002009-07-30T16:36:43.832+01:00Irene, you break my heart. Some pal I was. I wish...Irene, you break my heart. Some pal I was. I wish I'd known. You've mentioned bits to me before but just reading all this now... this was when we were in 1st year no? I know I dropped you in 2nd but you were also away elsewhere? Or maybe just in turmoil somewhere. I'm really sick to know what a useless pal I was. Stunned, at how a kid can really fall through the net. You know, our Emma is a social worker for kids and families now and the stuff she tells me... this still goes on!<br />I hope you can also forgive ME for being a useless pal, ach, I know you HAVE, but you need to know... I really wish I'd helped then, somehow. In my defense, I was just a kid too, head in the clouds. Reading on.carolinemackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14168139081054648042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6676006585094111478.post-6842256371007273722009-04-08T20:08:00.000+01:002009-04-08T20:08:00.000+01:00Irene, as one of your oldest pals I'm so amazed at...Irene, as one of your oldest pals I'm so amazed at THIS blog entry but only because you've held it inside for such a long time! I wish we'd maybe known each other earlier (younger) than we did, just in case I could have comforted ....somehow.....but reaslising now that as I was only 14 when my dad died and left me with "my wicked stepmother" for the next couple of years until - as you know - I left home on my 16th birthday (the legal age in Scotland folks down south reading this)....never looking back...doubt I'd have words of wisdom!!!<BR/><BR/>YOU may think you only bacame a Christian since being in England, but upon reading this entry I know God was certainly looking out for you then when he brought Chris into your life all those dancing years away at Aquarius' disco in Edinburgh! I think you two being together as one ARE already as being in Heaven!<BR/><BR/>You are being healed by this blog for sure....so glad to be part of it.<BR/><BR/>Love ya!Sandra in Bonnie Scotlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15779821722654252361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6676006585094111478.post-35853630774405495392009-04-08T11:29:00.000+01:002009-04-08T11:29:00.000+01:00Irene, your story is a million miles from my exper...Irene, your story is a million miles from my experience of childhood, but as a teacher I have had many children in my classes who have been "young carers" living a double life and somehow either not being able to articulate their pain or needs or it never occuring to them that there would be anyone in a school environment who they could trust to reveal the other part of their life to. <BR/><BR/>I get the sense that you constantly clung on to that in-built trust that your mother could and would never forget you. I can see that you have been touched by the grace of God and in His mercy that lie that self destruction could bring silence never took root.<BR/><BR/>Keep writing and keep thankful. Your light brings freedom to others still covering in darkness. <BR/><BR/>"They overcame by the blood of the lamb and word of their testimony, they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death."<BR/>Revelation 12:10-12<BR/><BR/>JacquiJacqui W-Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11580798006697908012noreply@blogger.com