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    "title": "Comments on: Prayer can, and will, heal our California prison system",
    "description": "Healing our prisons and those in them",
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            "content_html": "One way I\u2019m praying is to acknowledge each person\u2019s individual purpose in life.  Whatever crime was committed can\u2019t be the \u201cend all\u201d for that person.  It can\u2019t be how we identify with him or her because, ultimately, that is not how God identifies us.  God is the one who made us and loves us as His own son or daughter.  Those incarcerated can feel that they are worthy of progressing beyond what they\u2019ve done.  \r\n\r\nGod has made a promise with us (a covenant as the Bible says) that God will be with us and we will follow Him.  This promise is two sided.  God keeps His word and we also keep ours by listening and following God\u2019s direction.  I know God is speaking to each and every one in what seems to be the darkest of places.  It is God\u2019s will for us to do be and do what is good.  We are all capable of following Jesus\u2019 simple and profound commandments:  Love God with all your heart, soul and mind and love your neighbor as yourself.  Jesus didn\u2019t accept labels for people.  And neither should we.  \r\n\r\nYes, it\u2019s important for there to be an understanding of the impact of people's actions on others including a desire to live honestly and within the law.  And I\u2019m not trying to oversimplify things nor overlook that there are hardened, dangerous criminals.   But I don\u2019t want to put a label and accept that they are locked into a behavior pattern based on their environment and other influences.   \r\n\r\nGod is a God of mercy and justice.  There is hope for everyone.  These are my prayers.",
            "content_text": "One way I\u2019m praying is to acknowledge each person\u2019s individual purpose in life.  Whatever crime was committed can\u2019t be the \u201cend all\u201d for that person.  It can\u2019t be how we identify with him or her because, ultimately, that is not how God identifies us.  God is the one who made us and loves us as His own son or daughter.  Those incarcerated can feel that they are worthy of progressing beyond what they\u2019ve done.  \r\n\r\nGod has made a promise with us (a covenant as the Bible says) that God will be with us and we will follow Him.  This promise is two sided.  God keeps His word and we also keep ours by listening and following God\u2019s direction.  I know God is speaking to each and every one in what seems to be the darkest of places.  It is God\u2019s will for us to do be and do what is good.  We are all capable of following Jesus\u2019 simple and profound commandments:  Love God with all your heart, soul and mind and love your neighbor as yourself.  Jesus didn\u2019t accept labels for people.  And neither should we.  \r\n\r\nYes, it\u2019s important for there to be an understanding of the impact of people's actions on others including a desire to live honestly and within the law.  And I\u2019m not trying to oversimplify things nor overlook that there are hardened, dangerous criminals.   But I don\u2019t want to put a label and accept that they are locked into a behavior pattern based on their environment and other influences.   \r\n\r\nGod is a God of mercy and justice.  There is hope for everyone.  These are my prayers.",
            "date_published": "2014-02-16T15:43:49-08:00",
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            "id": "https://lightinprison.sharethepractice.org/2013/09/25/prayer-can-and-will-heal-our-california-prison-system/#comment-24",
            "url": "https://lightinprison.sharethepractice.org/2013/09/25/prayer-can-and-will-heal-our-california-prison-system/#comment-24",
            "content_html": "Thank you, David, for this article which I found to be a good reminder to keep the inmates, staff and prison system in our prayers.  God, as Spirit, has infinite inspiration and practical ideas for everyone involved in this system to truly make it restorative and healing.  I highly recommend viewing the English film \"Greenfingers\" based on a true story of a prison warden who gave some of the inmates the opportunity to participate in growing roses and other flowers, plants and vegetables.  They even competed in one of the royal garden shows.  I won't spill the beans, other than saying it's a truly moving film.",
            "content_text": "Thank you, David, for this article which I found to be a good reminder to keep the inmates, staff and prison system in our prayers.  God, as Spirit, has infinite inspiration and practical ideas for everyone involved in this system to truly make it restorative and healing.  I highly recommend viewing the English film \"Greenfingers\" based on a true story of a prison warden who gave some of the inmates the opportunity to participate in growing roses and other flowers, plants and vegetables.  They even competed in one of the royal garden shows.  I won't spill the beans, other than saying it's a truly moving film.",
            "date_published": "2013-12-29T21:42:46-08:00",
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                    "name": "Cathryn Rathsam",
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