Writing for this blog has been both challenging and rewarding. It started out as a suggestion by my sister and my wife as a therapeutic exercise for me. I needed a way to work through many things like the impact of coming to prison, working more fully into my faith, and exorcising some demons from…
Tag: Love Thy Enemy
Living Conflicted, Part 2
I closed my previous post, Living Conflicted, with a list of three conflicts I was feeling and dealing with: My preconceptions and prejudices concerning drug users and the reality of my new cellmate. What to do, if anything, about living with a drug user and the negatives that come with that? What is required of…
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…
Do Unto Others…
Another Mother’s Day has come and gone. Did you honor your mother? I made sure to send cards to the three mothers in my life: my mother, my wife and my sister and I also called all three. I did this because I love them and it’s that feeling of love that brought me to…
Love Thy Enemy – Concludes
Well, I left you hanging didn’t I? And right at the part where I began to apply the Holy Spirit’s guidance! Yes, it got you to come back but more importantly, I hope you walked away wondering how you’d handle Ed and Frank – Your Eds and Franks – we all have them… If you…
Love Thy Enemy
Love Thy Enemy?! Sounds crazy to us today, imagine when Jesus said it over 2000 years ago. When I landed in my first Federal cell after the move from County Jail holding, I was fortunate (yes, I see it as being fortunate – now) enough to be placed with Ed, The Contraband King and His…
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