My daughter, now age 19, had been lured into fringe gangs
in our small town
Junior High School. She
had taken on a gang
name (Buffy the Vampire Slayer),
was catching rides at noon to get away
from school property to smoke, had tried
drugs, and who knows what
else. I only knew of some of this after the fact and
through caring
people from my church who work in town and let me know so I
could deal
with it. On the outside and around me, she was a good church kid.
You
need to know that she had accepted Yeshua into her life when a small
child
and while she would never deny him at least now she had friends.
Some aspects
of her life I may never know- and I don't want to know.
I was teaching and I had a school day when she didn't. I knew
I couldn't trust her
home alone so I told her that she was
coming with me. We would make it a fun
day and we
would stop at some places great for photography, her hobby. On the
way
to school - 1 1/2 hours I had MY choice of music; on the way home she
had
her choice -- yes, even gangsta rap. My choice was your
audio book - tape 1. She was
MAD and wasn't going
to listen but it was part of the deal - I listen to hers if she
listens
to mine - so she listened. Just as we arrived at school tape 1 ended
with the
hanging thread about "the brother". Daughter asked me "what happened to the
brother?" to which I replied,
"we'll never know because it's your choice on the
way home and you want
music".
As soon as school was out she was looking in my car for tape 2. Three
years later
she told me that it was your audio book that helped her see that
Yeshua could forgive her
all she had done and that there was hope for
her.
Thank you for the tapes and Thank you Yeshua for opening her eyes. May
the audio book
be used to help others needing to know they can be forgiven.
When I have some funds available, I will be ordering at least one copy
- I think
Crisis Pregnancy Centers need to have access to your tapes as
well.
Thanks again." Grace