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GOD MOVES THROUGH OUR WORDS

I want to share something that happened to me as I read Becky Kew’s “Do You Ever Wonder Why?” in the Jan/Feb 2016 issue. Becky wrote about Daisy, a horse that fell into a well and could not get out.

When I read that story, it totally convicted me. It made me cry, something I haven’t done in a while. I mean the kind of cry that one may do when the Holy Spirit moves upon them. Needless to say—I was moved.

Like Daisy, I fell into a well too. The difference between Daisy and myself is that she fell into a hole someone else dug. I fell into a hole I dug myself. More like a “Burning Ring of Fire” that Johnny Cash sang about long ago.

I fell into a wrongful conviction and life sentence in prison that is nothing more than the end result of a crop of hate seeds planted years ago. In that garden of devilish weeds, my conviction is self-inflicted.

I fought my case; I fought the courts. I fought with man and Satan too. Sometimes I fought with the Lord above for answers that He’s still not fully addressed.

After years of fighting the system of man and the battle going on in my mind, I’ve finally come to the only conclusion that I will never get out of this hole alive. At least, not on my own.

I cannot save myself. Reading that story was confirmation that the only way out of this pit is by surrendering myself to, and accepting the help of Jesus who has been there all along waiting for me to stop trying to do things my way. Accept His unconditional love and take His hand and let Him lead me to the promised land.

Over the years in prison, my life has been slowly turned over to the Lord, partly because of your Indian Life news and the counseling correspondents therein. Thank you for printing such a revealing story and God bless Becky Kew for sharing the words I needed to hear—Surrender! (God moves through our words).

Sure it’s hard to understand God’s way sometimes, but I don’t even try to understand His will. I simply learn to trust it.

—K.K., Florida