Thursday Morning Reggie Wheller, Ron Lally and Myself brought one of our clients to view Angola for what, with out serious help, will be our guys next home. He is not a bad guy, just lost. He needs to see this, feel it, taste it. I have tasted the bitter taste of being locked up, being locked down, But when you taste it at Angola it taste different. As always with this life I received far more than out guy did. I want to introduce a man by the name of Sivoris Sutton. He is from the ATL, He has been at Angola for 17 years, He is the prisons program manager for the radio station and a great guy, I love hearing him speak, I love watching him teach.
Sivoris, AKA D.J. “Shaq” will most likely spend the rest of his life in Angola. Please be in prayer that God would open a door for his release. He is serving a 99 year sentence for accessory to murder. He was with a guy who killed someone. He did not pull the trigger, he did not even have a gun, but he made a choice to befriend a bad dude. He pays for that choice every day. Listening to him talk about his children at home, you can feel the love this guy has for his children. What strikes me in all of this, every prisoner I get the chance to talk to, every one of them has the same thought I did: I was the life of the party, I was the MAN, but when you get locked up, WHO comes to see you, WHO………..Thats right, NO ONE. in 17 yrs at Angola only his mom and children have came to see him. “Shaq” speaks to school, churches and pretty much anyone who will listen about the dangers of drugs and money and street life. If you ever get the chance to see him, thank him, hug him, love him, pray for him. He is the hands and feet of Christ in a setting most of us would die in. There is never a day that goes by that I don’t regret making bad choices, but we often talk about where would we be with out those choices. Shaq is as free as me, He gets to do things everyday I have to wait to do, He gets to love inmates! It is ironic, I spent along time trying to get out of prison, out of bandage….now I spend my whole life trying to get back in one more time. I would rather be in a prison or talking with inmates listening to their story, than in any “church” in the world. How great is our God.
August 8, 2008 at 5:09 pm |
Amazing post blog brother!
So glad you get to do what you do and glad you get to tell us about it.
God bless you.
November 14, 2008 at 6:42 pm |
Just spent some time on Thursday with “Shaq”at KLSP. He needs our prayer, his mom and girls also need our prayer. He is a powerful witness to the those inside and outside. Thanks for sharing his story.