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proud2bcatholic
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Alright, so my cousin is going to jail for 2 1/2 years. In the mid 90s he went to jail for 3 years for statutory rape, don’t much about the details of that situation and don’t care to know. Well anyways he is going back to jail for possessing a firearms and ammunition which he is not allowed for being a former convict, so I just found out earlier this week that he is going back to jail for 2 1/2 years.
I don’t know him very well, he knew my older siblings quite well as they grew up with him, but by the time my brother and I came along he was always out doing his own thing and my parents did not allow me to be around him plus we moved away from West Virginia, where he is at when I was 5 years old.
But my older sister tells me that he’s been heavy into drugs and alcohol since he was a young man, and is a very wounded man, likely due to his alcoholic abusive dad.
Anyways, my sister tells me that the only thing that kept him going during his first stint in jail was his mother would visit him weekly.
Now, two years ago his mother, my aunt died of a brain aneurysm, and he did not take it well supposedly and my sister is worried about him going back to jail without the consolation of his mom visiting him.
So I’ve prayed about it the last couple of days, and I feel called to write him, however I also want to write to him about faith and Jesus Christ.
I am thinking about sending him “Imitation of Christ” and also a book of a saint whom I would think would speak to his heart.
I don’t think he knows much about God, although I could be wrong. I do know that his mother (and my mother) were raised Methodist, and that his mother played the piano at a Methodist Church, but beyond that I don’t think God has been a very big part in his life.
So anyways, Jesus tells us to visit the prisoners. I think that this is one way in which He is calling me to do this.
So what I need from you, you legion of faithful prayer warriors is prayer and advice.
I need your advice on how you think I should approach him in my letter writing. Do you have any recommendations on a good saint biography that I should send him (particluarly somebody who spent time in jail and speaks of repentance)?
But most of all I need your prayers.
I don’t know him very well, he knew my older siblings quite well as they grew up with him, but by the time my brother and I came along he was always out doing his own thing and my parents did not allow me to be around him plus we moved away from West Virginia, where he is at when I was 5 years old.
But my older sister tells me that he’s been heavy into drugs and alcohol since he was a young man, and is a very wounded man, likely due to his alcoholic abusive dad.
Anyways, my sister tells me that the only thing that kept him going during his first stint in jail was his mother would visit him weekly.
Now, two years ago his mother, my aunt died of a brain aneurysm, and he did not take it well supposedly and my sister is worried about him going back to jail without the consolation of his mom visiting him.
So I’ve prayed about it the last couple of days, and I feel called to write him, however I also want to write to him about faith and Jesus Christ.
I am thinking about sending him “Imitation of Christ” and also a book of a saint whom I would think would speak to his heart.
I don’t think he knows much about God, although I could be wrong. I do know that his mother (and my mother) were raised Methodist, and that his mother played the piano at a Methodist Church, but beyond that I don’t think God has been a very big part in his life.
So anyways, Jesus tells us to visit the prisoners. I think that this is one way in which He is calling me to do this.
So what I need from you, you legion of faithful prayer warriors is prayer and advice.
I need your advice on how you think I should approach him in my letter writing. Do you have any recommendations on a good saint biography that I should send him (particluarly somebody who spent time in jail and speaks of repentance)?
But most of all I need your prayers.
