Depending on how much halfway house time I am given I am between ten (eight months half way house) and eighteen months (zero half way house) from leaving here and arriving somewhere where I will begin my reintegration into society. With this comes many emotions: joy, curiosity, hope, depression, and a dozen more. The one…
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The Human Side of Easter
It’s Easter; the center of the Christian faith. We are all to be thankful and worshipful for “God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” [John 3:16] What more can be said? I know I have nothing more…
What Goes Around…
In one of my earliest writings I spoke about my having been placed in a cell with the drug king of my unit. (See Love Thy Enemy and Love Thy Enemy – Concludes) He was also a hater; hating people with my crime. I told of how, after a month of his verbal abuse, I…
Forgiveness
During my wife’s last visit, we talked about forgiveness. We didn’t get into all the differences between my view of forgiveness and her view but I was left with a new perspective; one that I hadn’t ever considered before. The outcome for me is not being sure if I can forgive myself for what I’ve…
Blessed In Exile
Here we are at the final installment for this series of postings. It has been, for me, an arduous task of writing about very difficult topics. My plate of spaghetti has many other strands that I have to chew through in my healing process, but after today we can sop up the sauce of this…
Joy In The Tribulation (part 2 of 2)
This is part of a post begun last week (But It’s Snowing! (part 1 of 2)). Without further delay… here you’ll read of my first revelation around finding Joy In The Tribulation. Later posts will expand on this mantra in my life. I was meditating on “Joys In The Tribulations” since God’s Word (The Bible)…
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