Author's Background

The author was born in 1954 as Lorraine Linda Callender. Her father, Denzil, worked at a glass plant and farmed. This left a lot of farming chores for her mother, Laurella (Marie), Lorraine, and her two brothers. She was pretty sheltered from alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs.

Marriages and Personal Struggles

She married at eighteen. Philip Busch drank heavily as a teen. He quit before they were married. He was very abusive, now she understands he was a dry drunk. They had two children and that marriage dissolved.

She married Arthur Hurrelbrink Jr., who had been a heavy teen-drinker but had quit drinking two years before they married. She had seven more children. He had a drink with his brother one night—all night long. The addiction had him again. She knew nothing about alcoholism or co-dependencies and thought he just didn't love her.

Shortly after he went to rehab, they were getting their life back together. However, cancer claimed him at age forty. Two years later, she met R------{R---) G---- at college. She married R---. The challenge of his drug and alcohol addiction seemed unbearable at times. Finally, prayers were answered. R--- has been clean and sober, growing spiritually. Attending meetings with R---, she has learned much about addictions.

Her Mission and Hope

It is her desire to reach children whose lives are burdened with their parents' addictions and offer them some hope. She would like to encourage them to live a life free of drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes. Her last drink was in June 2004. R---'s clean and sober month is August 2004. This change in their lives has made life a little more special.

We would like to extend an invitation to find a life free from addictions and to take God as your source of strength.