Not long ago, Brandi and John Jonathan opened up a bin overflowing with letters. Their 7-year-old daughter, Eden, approached them and asked, “What’s that?” “Eden, these are all the letters daddy had written to him while he was in prison,”...
Solomon’s earliest memory is stopping his father from strangling his mother to death. He was three and a half years old. He managed to distract his father long enough to allow his mother to flee to a neighbor’s house and call the police. However, his father was...
“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...
