One womans journey from childhood trauma to the healing and blessings she received by inviting Jesus into her life. In this frank and honest memoir, Shirley Keogh details the painful, emotional scars she experienced when as a 12 year old child she was cut off, not only from her father, but also from her younger brother. In a beautifully crafted fashion, she describes the impact that the separation had on her but more importantly how her journey towards the healing of her wound led her into her present vocation - to be a voice and a source of healing for others, who through no fault of their own, have had to travel a similar path. Using a diary-journaling technique she details the steps by which she was led to surrender her life and her problems to the Lord as He led her to a place of hope and healing. She now had the courage to share her story in the hope that her experiences may help society to think again about the widespread (and growing) availability of divorce and parental separation. She makes a heartfelt plea for the real victims - the children. As a committed Christian, Shirley explains that in the Catholic tradition healing is more likely to come in a gradual way. For many people brought up in a world where everything is instant and immediate, she points out that we can learn so many valuable lessons about life in the waiting period - things that we can easily miss in more dramatic and instantaneous stories of healing. Shirley is living proof that when we surrender our lives to the Lord, He can mysteriously open doors that we didn't even know existed