New Journey

I will resume the marriage stories tomorrow. Tonight, I want to tell you about my new journey in prison ministry. I started a small group today with a group of men using Billy's book and the questions after the chapters. It is still hard being in this unit, remembering all the small groups that Billy and I did together here. I don't want this group to be about me, but I knew after they read Billy's journal in the preface, that I needed to talk to them about who he was and how important faith and intimacy with God was to him. They asked the question that many people have asked me,"Did he know that he was going to die?" He knew it as much as you and I know that we will all die. As Christians we know we will be with the Lord so we are not afraid. Billy had a strong hunger to know intimacy with God on this earth. He spent times of silence and prayer on regular retreats. He spent many nights falling asleep reading his Bible. We both had weekly communion together in our home. We prayed together daily, well almost daily. He and I did these things because we knew life did not go well when we let any of these things slack. Joy with each other was parallel with intimacy with God. All this to say, his journal entries of a letter to himself from God and the next night a letter from him to God was a part of this search for more intimacy. I think God couldn't stand to not have all of him another day. This was the day God just reached down and said I will hold you in a way you will never forget. Come to Papa