Recently, keepers have been blogging a lot about KEEPERSKORNER. Our system had made the decision to wait until the beginning of the New Year and then start moving what is on our website to our blog and just closing out the site itself. To us, this seemed like a very good way to go because the website itself has become more of a thorn in our side than something we are relishing in dealing with. Anyway, it was resolved–keepers would focus on Christmas at KEEPERSKORNER and then we would move into switching our entire site to our blog where we would maintain our ministry in a more simple way.

However, several months ago, keepers wrote a blog about our young niece (who is in her early twenties) that is seriously addicted to meth. We put up that particular blog because this niece had contacted keepers through KEEPERSKORNER the day before she was due to be admitted to an intensive rehab program. Her father (keepers brother) had taken her to work with him. He sat his daughter down at a computer and typed in KEEPERSKORNER. While her father was busy with his work for the day, our niece was wandering around KK and found the courage to write to keepers through our Contact Us Tab. Our brother told us that she even printed out parts of KK to take into rehab with her. Anyway, by the time our niece was due to check in to rehab the next day–she had changed her mind and returned to her own underworld of living the addicted life. At that point, there was nothing anyone could do but hope and pray this niece would find her own way to recovery.

Well, a few weeks ago, keepers niece did find her own way into rehab. I hear that she simply realized living the addicted life was not what she wanted for herself or her very young son. Perhaps, the change in thinking came about for her when our brother and his wife adopted her little boy and she lost all parental rights with him. Whatever the reasoning, our niece did enter a rehab program and has stuck it out quite successfully. She is at the point now where she has weekend passes to go visit with her Dad, his wife and her own son. Every time keepers think of how far she has come in the last couple of months, we breathe a huge sigh of relief and thank God for taking care of this beautiful young woman while she was suffering so badly in her early withdrawal days.

On her second weekend pass, our niece went to her Dad and asked him again for the link to KEEPERSKORNER so that she might visit her aunt keepers while continuing her rehab program. Of course, our brother supplied the link and let keepers know because he is hoping that we will hear from our niece at some point in the near future.

Keepers can not put into words how much it means to us that our young niece has found something she needs through KEEPERSKORNER and that our website is where she goes for the hope and strength to continue on her own healing journey. But that is the truth of what is happening and it touches keepers hearts so deeply that changing our thoughts on where we are going with KEEPERSKORNER, the website, seems only natural now. You see, if KK is doing this young woman any good, we want to keep our site up and running in spite of it feeling like a thorn in keepers side. Our dealing with the behind the scenes problems of a site such as ours is a small price for keepers to pay if it really make a difference in the life of our niece. So, KEEPERSKORNER the website will be up and running for a very long time to come. We can not guarantee that changes will be made or that updates will come to our site with any frequency but our niece has shown keepers that maybe those things are not as important as keepers once thought they were.

There is a quote that says THE NEEDS OF THE MANY OUTWEIGH THE NEEDS OF THE ONE. (I think keepers first heard that statement in one of the Star Trek movies years ago.) Keepers know and respect how very true the above quote is but something inside of us has come to really understand how very critical for the needs of the one to be recognized and met in this world. Maybe it took our niece being where she is for keepers to see that meeting the needs of the one time and time again is just as important as meeting the needs of the many. Just as keepers look at the needs of the multiples who reach out through KEEPERSKORNER, we are seeing the needs of our own young niece and making decisions that we hope will let her know that she always has an aunt out here who loves her dearly and wants to go the distance with her. Keepers know all too well that she has suffered greatly in her short life. We know beyond any doubt that she has shown great strength and courage by choosing to enter rehab on her own and begin her personal healing journey. For us, this is a situation (like so many others) where the needs of the one matter so very much.

Everything on KEEPERSKORNER, the website, is still functional and everyone is welcome to visit there or even write to keepers through our CONTACT US TAB but right now keepers are waiting for the day when we receive that very special email from our niece who has been through so much. We offer her our hand so that we can walk together. We offer her keepers shoulder to cry on and we offer her all the love we have in our hearts for her.

peace and blessings,

keepers