Will you please accept the help we’re offering? This was the question asked by each of Ruth’s family members assembled for the intervention. Ruth’s family not only loved her, they revered her. She had a great capacity to give and a way of making people forget their troubles. She was everyone’s ray of sunshine. She drank infrequently, but after her husband’s heart attack, the binges became more frequent and more dangerous. Ruth looked around the room at her family and through tears, with a small smile the seventy-three-year-old grandmother said, “Yes, I’ll accept your help today.”
- Debra Jay
Where there is great love there are miracles.
- Willa Cather