Libby Szarka looked around at the people who had become her “new family.” They were a poor comparison to the family she had left behind—three daughters, the youngest only 8 when Ms. Szarka started living on the streets of Calgary, dealing and smoking crack.
“They wouldn’t think twice to stab you up for a hoot if they needed one,” Ms. Szarka told The Epoch Times. “And then even worse, I was the same.”
With the painful realization of all she had lost and what she had become, she thought of killing herself. Or getting help.
“I can ask God to help me and I can change my story,” she said of her thinking at the time. That’s precisely what she did, and helped others change their stories too….