breaking the hush

Valentines Day has to be one of my favorite holidays! I know most singles resent the day because of the large awareness it brings to their singleness, but not me! Rarely in the past, being in a relationship for Valentines Day – I still had the urge to make someone my Valentine, usually my sister, whom I’m sure never minded the flowers and chocolate. I even made my boss, as well as close friend, my Valentine last year! (Miss you Alaine!) Maybe t...

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 says, “Be joyful always, pray continuously, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

I read a book a few weeks ago called “The Hiding Place” by Corrie Ten Boom-a great Christian classic! The book is a biography of Corrie and her family who hide Jews in Holland during the Holocaust in 1944. Corrie and her family were eventually caught a placed in co...

My sister wrote me a while back with a question that was posed to her that really made me think, and that I have since begun to ask others. The question is, "Who is God to You?" Of course, to all of us we should call Him Savior and Lord, but what else? For example, to one He could be “Sovereign” or another “Love.”

A month or so ago, I gave Saulo the same question and a few days ago he came to me with excitement and an answer! ...

     I wanted to write and wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year! Please know that I am full of Peace this season, even away from my friends and family. Know that I have found new brothers in Christ that I will be spending the Holidays with. God has been so good to me that I won’t even begin to tell you of my sorrow because I don’t have any! In fact, my heart is filled with excitement for what the New Year is bringing.

     In prison you meet people from all different backgrounds. Some you would choose to live with and others, well…you know. There are a few guys in my dorm that I have really learned to love in the Lord. Each of us with out own ugly pasts that got us here, but who recognize God’s redemption and are moving forward. We’ve started to meet together every day and in our discussions have realized that God is calling us to pray harder, listen clo...

     A week or so ago, God challenged me to pray! I have fallen so much in love God’s Word – it’s like I’m reading it all new for the first time! –it seems like with the lack of privacy, my prayer life has decreased as my reading has GREATLY increased. He reminded me of the Muslim in my dorm the first week I was here – I mentioned him in an earlier blog – and how he didn’t care about privacy, but did it anyway!...

With last week being Thanksgiving, my mind is bombarded with thoughts of gratitude for family, friends, and you, my readers. Believe me when I say that every comment, message, and email are sent to me and I read them several times over. I thank you for your encouragement and prayers. I want to let you all know of my increasing love for God and His continual divine movement in my life. I am now at a point where I can see this time of incarceration as essential for my future mini...

I was convicted the other day – “Surprise! Surprise! So far, during my total year of incarceration (including the three months while on probation) the Lord has always put me in the best dorms with some great guys! This kind of thing has followed me my entire life, like getting in the best classes with the best teachers. Anyhow, I was moved from a temporary dorm to a permanent dorm in the facility where I currently reside. As soon as I walked in and put my things awa...

I can’t tell you the last time I bowed my head to pray for my meal. The last time I sincerely thanked God for what I was about to eat. Well, the other day at lunch, all three of the men bowed their heads and silently thanked Him for theirs. It got me thinking, what happened? As I evaluated myself, I found the answer. Anything that I saw as “religious” (repetitive, legalistic) that I was taught growing up, I stopped doing. I think I got so tired of others being...

Prison church is different from any other church I’ve been to. Besides the fact that we are all wearing the exact same thing – we are all different in beliefs, backgrounds, etc. My first service, even though worship here is probably better than most churches, I was very timid in raising my hands. For someone with a heart of worship and wants nothing but to surrender my entire self to the Lord Master, this was unusual. Being in this “different” environmen...