I have a faltering faith-It seems so often such a fleeting thing. Part of me wants to give up marketing the book-it is very hard for me to ask people to buy it. I’ve given 100’s away and hope to place one soon in each GDC facility. I’ve learned through this process how critical marketing is-you have to sell yourself and have somebody help you. Anyway, I was with some new but dear friends and had a copy of the book. I gave it to them; they were delighted by the gift and wanted it inscribed. After I had done so, totally out of the blue, the man took my hand and looked into my soul and said, “My son is in prison and he is guilty of the charges. (He told me the whole story but I cannot betray his confidence.) Can you imagine how this makes me feel? I’m his father, and I was there and I took him to church and I taught him and he still did wrong. And he’s getting worse in prison.”
I cannot imagine his pain. Yet he goes on being a good man who loves his sinful son (Kingdom of Heaven, p. 105) And I am blessed with the opportunity to share his pain and with renewed faith understand that this one incident makes the book a success.
If you’re working in a facility, remember that all of your charges have parents and other family; some of them have parents who love them.
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