The morning sun gleams on the razor wire. As we exit our cars near the prison yard, we hear the fourteen- to twenty-year-old inmates talking smack to a guard. Disciplinary action is brewing. They haven’t learned yet.
Inside we navigate the weekly routine of paperwork, newly changed rules, manifests, searches, pat-downs, safety devices, and cataloging of our personal effects. This process transports us through three locked-down security doors and multiple armed guards. And then we’re in, one with the prison population….
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A heartfelt thank you to Freelance Writer Ed Cyzewski—gracious and uplifting encourager of writers that he is—for asking me to write a guest post today! For more about Ed’s work, Click Here.
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How nice of Ed Cyzewski! Your ministry inspires me, and reminds me that we are all broken and in need of a Savior! So thankful that you invest yourself in the places that God calls you! I’m looking forward to the way Refuge ministers to broken people inside and outside of prison walls.
It was very nice of Ed to invite me! Thanks for your kind words as always, Mom.
I love this. I love everything about it. I work in an inner city middle school, and there is brokenness at every turn. It is wild and loud and out there, and the only way to connect with my kiddos is to be in it with them, to wear my own brokenness on my sleeve so they know they’re not alone, that I understand what it feels like to be messy, that I am a safe place for them to fail.
There is no more free and healing place than among the openly and unashamedly broken, I am convinced. Praying for your ministry, for you and these women and all the ways you need each other.
Amen, Audra! I agree with you 100% – we can’t hide our brokenness if we want to introduce broken people to the God who loves and heals and makes beauty from ashes. Thank you for popping in and for commenting.