Steve Wakefield (Georgia, USA)
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Sign Up TodayThe seraph touched my mouth with [a live coal] and said: “Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.” - Isaiah 6:7 (NRSV)
As I write this, I have 246 days remaining until I am released from prison. In preparation for my return to society, I pray that God will help me release my guilt. I know that I must do so in order to live an abundant life and find peace and...
God can free me to move forward with joy.
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I join many of those who will pray for you as you seek to discern what you are called to be at this moment. May God grant you the courage to fulfill that calling. May we all open our eyes and see the misery, open our ears and hear the cries of God’s people, and, like God through the Lord Jesus Christ, be incarnate amongst them.”
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