“Thank goodness he’s dead. Now I don’t have to forgive that man.” The thought popped into Douglas’s head the moment he heard about the death of the man who had killed his mother. Douglas had harbored spite and hatred toward this man since he was four years old, the...
As a young man, Mervin was on a constant search for more stuff. He accumulated as many possessions as he could, believing that it would bring him happiness. But no matter how hard Mervin tried to find satisfaction in the things he bought, nothing seemed to work. “I...
Josiah wanted revenge. After multiple stints in prison earlier in his life, he had found himself behind bars again because his fiancée had called the police to report the crime. “I hated her,” Josiah says. “I asked my brother to post bail so I could seek vengeance...
Dear Friends, Francisco is a former Crossroads student I met recently. He spent several years in prison and is now released. As we talked, he vividly described to me the anticipation he felt every day during mail call when prison guards delivered the mail to...
Every day, at dining room tables, couches and porches all over the country, men and women are slowing down. They are taking a break from the hustle and bustle of their daily lives. They are prayerfully putting pen to paper, writing to people they have never met and...
E.T. Lim grew up in a Buddhist and Taoist family in Malaysia and Singapore as the youngest of eight children. He struggled in school academically and socially. He was bullied relentlessly by older schoolmates until one day he challenged the bullies to a fight and...
