Comments on: 14 Short Stories of Progress and Healing Inside California Prison Walls https://lightinprison.sharethepractice.org/2016/01/15/14-short-stories-of-progress-and-healing-inside-california-prison-walls/ Healing our prisons and those in them Tue, 11 Jul 2023 03:03:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: George Birdsong https://lightinprison.sharethepractice.org/2016/01/15/14-short-stories-of-progress-and-healing-inside-california-prison-walls/#comment-276 Mon, 18 Jan 2016 22:24:24 +0000 https://lightinprison.org/?p=2724#comment-276 These are wonderful testimonies of the healing and redeeming power of Christian Science. loved the 23 Psalm rewritten from the heart. thanks for sharing.

]]> By: David Fowler https://lightinprison.sharethepractice.org/2016/01/15/14-short-stories-of-progress-and-healing-inside-california-prison-walls/#comment-275 Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:08:13 +0000 https://lightinprison.org/?p=2724#comment-275 In reply to Kane Carol.

Thanks Carol…please share these stories with our blessings. –David

]]> By: Kane Carol https://lightinprison.sharethepractice.org/2016/01/15/14-short-stories-of-progress-and-healing-inside-california-prison-walls/#comment-274 Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:02:52 +0000 https://lightinprison.org/?p=2724#comment-274 Thank you so much for posting all these wonderful healings! I hope it is okay to share some of them with two gentleman to whom I write on a regular basis as part of our church’s institutional ministry. They are incarcerated a long distance away from me and, therefore, my only communication is via a monthly letter. I think they will be very uplifted by the experiences of these inmates and encouraged to continue studying the weekly Bible Lessons.

]]> By: Stuart https://lightinprison.sharethepractice.org/2016/01/15/14-short-stories-of-progress-and-healing-inside-california-prison-walls/#comment-273 Sat, 16 Jan 2016 17:56:59 +0000 https://lightinprison.org/?p=2724#comment-273 David,

Very heartfelt newsletter … I felt the inmates pain and their healing.

The comfort and hope that your organization is creating for the inmates is glorious!

Stuart

]]> By: Evelyn https://lightinprison.sharethepractice.org/2016/01/15/14-short-stories-of-progress-and-healing-inside-california-prison-walls/#comment-272 Sat, 16 Jan 2016 07:16:27 +0000 https://lightinprison.org/?p=2724#comment-272 These healings address one of the most important issues of our day – overcoming the recidivism rate that keeps sending these individuals into a system they can’t get out of.
Yet, God’s children are upright and god-like. Whatever shows an individual his/her God-given integrity and uprightness has to bless everyone.

]]> By: Jan in Grass Valley https://lightinprison.sharethepractice.org/2016/01/15/14-short-stories-of-progress-and-healing-inside-california-prison-walls/#comment-271 Sat, 16 Jan 2016 06:40:03 +0000 https://lightinprison.org/?p=2724#comment-271 Thanks for sharing all the wonderful examples!

]]> By: Joan Mikkelsen https://lightinprison.sharethepractice.org/2016/01/15/14-short-stories-of-progress-and-healing-inside-california-prison-walls/#comment-270 Sat, 16 Jan 2016 05:38:53 +0000 https://lightinprison.org/?p=2724#comment-270 Thank you so much for posting these healings.

]]> By: Clementine Suiffet https://lightinprison.sharethepractice.org/2016/01/15/14-short-stories-of-progress-and-healing-inside-california-prison-walls/#comment-269 Sat, 16 Jan 2016 02:45:24 +0000 https://lightinprison.org/?p=2724#comment-269 I really appreciate all these examples of how prayer is transforming people’s lives. What stood out to me was an inmate’s rewording of the 23rd Psalm. One phrase got me thinking about a personal transformation: “He leads me in love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control.” All these qualities are examples of a life renewed, transformed.

I had a character transformation where a change in attitude resulted in the healing of a physical heart condition and of panic attacks. The heart palpitations were frightening. Sometimes I felt I was going to die. The panic attacks would cause me to stop what I was doing. If I was driving, I had to pull over. If I was shopping, I had to leave the store. During this time, I learned that the physical problem wasn’t the real need. The real need was to renew my attitude in life.

I had a problem with being impatient. Temper tantrums ended up distancing myself from the ones I loved. A transformation was being called for and I didn’t know it at the time. I prayed with a Christian Science practitioner and ugly traits were coming to the surface. It took time to renew my ways. Gradually, I learned to be more patient, to love what I was doing or where I was or who I was with. An appreciation for life was the beginning of my transformation.

I learned to love myself for who I really was – the way God made me to be as His worthy, loved child, full of ability to bless those around me. I felt God’s infinite patience with me. I learned to stop being absorbed in me, my problems, and focus on living for others. Long story short, the heart palpitations and panic attacks were no longer impressing me. They became insignificant. Whenever the symptoms came on, I took a very strong stand, mentally and physically, knowing that they could not define who I really was – complete and free as God’s child.

Long story short, the physical problem is gone. I lead a physically active life doing what I love doing -working as a Christian Science nurse which requires many physical duties, including lifting and moving skills. The real lifting going on is not physical. It is a constant moving of my thought to a higher level– one that loves each person the way God made him/her -perfectly able, whole, free.

]]> By: Kendra Lee https://lightinprison.sharethepractice.org/2016/01/15/14-short-stories-of-progress-and-healing-inside-california-prison-walls/#comment-268 Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:58:28 +0000 https://lightinprison.org/?p=2724#comment-268 I love reading about the help prisoners are receiving. It is so wonderful. They are finding
out the true Light that is available to them even in that dark place. Thank you chaplains.
Lee S.

]]> By: mary https://lightinprison.sharethepractice.org/2016/01/15/14-short-stories-of-progress-and-healing-inside-california-prison-walls/#comment-267 Fri, 15 Jan 2016 23:41:59 +0000 https://lightinprison.org/?p=2724#comment-267 Thank you for sharing! Wonderful work going on!!!!

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