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How a Struggling Single Mom Found True Riches IN THIS ISSUE: Whose Are You? FOR WOMEN p.3 ® Crossword Puzzle INSIDE JOURNAL p.3 Find Your Identity YOUR SOURCE OF INSPIRATION AND INFORMATION VOLUME 3, NO. 2 SPRING 2020 p.4 WHAT IS ANGEL TREE CAMPING? How a Struggling Single An extension of the Prison Fellowship® Angel Tree® Christmas program, Angel Tree Camping® Mom Found True Riches helps children ages 5 to 18 who have an by A.R. Quinn incarcerated parent or stepparent to attend was never able to a Christian summer be just an innocent camp* on a scholarship. child,” says Michelle To find out if there is an “ Payette. Angel Tree Camp near Her father was your child, you or your anI abusive man with legal child’s caregiver can troubles. Those troubles call 800.55.ANGEL eventually drove Michelle and (26435) to get her family from Illinois, her connected to the Angel birthplace, to the racetrack Tree Camping specialist town of Saratoga Springs, in your region. New York. Soon after, her parents got divorced, and *Camps are not owned or operated by Prison Fellowship. Michelle’s mother married a man who was a convicted felon, though Michelle didn’t know it until much later. she had the appearance of He ran an automotive shop success—a nice house, a car, that kept two sets of books. a family. But her marriage Michelle grew up thinking was unhealthy, and when Photo by Veronica Huang by Veronica Photo that it wasn’t quite legal, but she got pregnant again, her she figured that was just the When Michelle was a kid, she tried to grow up too fast and wound up as a young mom in a bad marriage. husband didn’t want the baby. way business was done. Then the lure of nice things and the appearance of a successful life eventually led to a prison sentence— Michelle ended that Her life lacked stability. which finally opened her eyes to what really mattered. pregnancy, but the decision To top it off, her mother was left her depressed—and depressed. she was told she’d be By the time she was 13, makeup and pretending to be through town. child, a daughter. She settled unable to conceive again. Michelle was spending her much older. She partied hard At 21, Michelle married an into motherhood and worked evenings in a bar, piling on with the rock stars who came older man and had her first for a salon. On the outside, Continued on page 2 How to Find Your Passions Behind Bars by Stacia Ray you joy when you were write a screenplay or stand- younger? Even those of us up routine. The added bonus ou are so much with unhealthy childhoods of getting feedback from more than just had hobbies and passions. friends is that you can use some prison ID Did you love to draw? Were this information to improve number. You’re you good at sports? Acting, yourself. If you’re told you a unique person writing, reading, playing an have the gift of gab, ask withY gifts and talents. Using instrument? Think back to yourself if you sometimes talk these talents in the form of a what gave you fulfillment as too much and could stand to regular hobby can keep your a very young child and find work on your listening skills. mind sharp and help lower a way to recreate that as stress. But how do you even an adult. That might mean 3. Find inspiration in others. pursue your hobbies with exercising in your cell, joining If you hear a song that limited resources? a prison music program, touches your soul, ask Inside Journal reviewed drawing every day, or starting yourself what it was about research articles, blogs, and a book club or theater group*. that song you loved so personal stories to create a much. Was it the lyrics? list of tips on how to find your 2. Ask others to list your by ugde/GettyImages Photo Try poetry. Was it the passion while incarcerated. best qualities. answers to find your passion. offer to help tutor someone sound of the instruments? Find a few trusted friends If most of your friends agree in math*. If most of your Try finding books in the 1. Remember your childhood. and ask them what your you’re great at math, create friends agree you’re a funny What activities brought strengths are. Then use those your own Sudoku book or storyteller, start a journal or Continued on page 2 INSIDE JOURNAL | Spring 2020 1 Find Your Passions start a separate phrase going Continued from page 1 left to right. Letters to the Editor prison library about writing 5. Don’t stop until you find your passion. your family. Mark and John, and the book composition or see if your Kelly, Mississippi Like the old saying goes, of Ephesians might also help facility offers music classes. I have been here for about a you’ll never know unless you month. I have chosen to do Fina, Arizona you. God bless your journey! Reading biographies and I am serving a 11 ½ year autobiographies is also try. Figure out what classes the time I have to serve with you’re allowed to take. Find God. I yearn to learn all I sentence out of 14 years. Tamarr, Arizona helpful. There are some All my life I have been a I have been inspired by the fascinating people in the out which programs involve possibly can so when I return the fine arts. Ask about home to my family, I will be victim and also played a things I read in Inside Journal, world. If their talents impress victim. I have lied so much and one day I hope to share you, try them out yourself. volunteer opportunities for the mother and wife God mentoring, pen-pal letter wants me to be. I love my I don’t even know the truth my story to do the same for Look around at fellow anymore. I pray to God, and I others. Without you sharing prisoners who inspire you. writing, tutoring, and other family, and I spend every day services. Try a variety of growing in God’s Word. I am know how much I need Him. this newspaper, some of our 4. Think outside the box. activities and make a note so thankful that God’s love is I know I can’t do this time institutionalized brothers and Just because you’re in of your reaction to each. If ever-present. Thank you for without Him. I am fully ready sisters would not be as blessed. a prison cell doesn’t mean you experiment long enough, the words of wisdom in Inside to accept Him in my life. I It gives us hope. Thank you you can’t get creative. Find you’ll eventually find the Journal, and I ask you to just don’t know how to do it. again and God bless. clever ways for using the talents and gifts that make remember me and my family Dear Fina: Dear Tamarr: items you’re allowed. Check you tick. And when you find in your prayers. To fully accept God into your With God’s love and hope in the commissary for items them, stick to them. Make Dear Kelly: life, start with prayer. Just talk your corner, you are already that might have unexpected a schedule if necessary. We will keep you in our prayers to Him like you’d talk to a close equipped to inspire those purposes. Have you always Consistency will help as you continue to grow in friend. If you have a Bible, around you. Stay strong and loved to cook? Experiment strengthen your skills and n your relationship with God and reading the Gospels, such as keep the faith! with different items to create reduce your stress. unique cuisine behind bars. (Inside Journal ran recipe People who are incarcerated articles in Spring 2019 and with limited resources are some of the most creative, Subscription Info Fall 2019; see if your library or chaplain keeps old copies.) Are inventive people around. That ® At Inside Journal (IJ), we receive many letters each week from prisoners asking for you artistic? Draw pictures or includes you. Your passions subscriptions to our newspaper. We are grateful for the interest and support of our readers. create cards as low-cost gifts and talents are unique and for loved ones. Are you poetic? priceless, so go find them, However, because of staff and budget limitations, IJ is only available in bulk shipments to your and serve your time well. chaplain, programming coordinator, or a volunteer who visits your facility. Chaplains, to set Try spoken word, rap, or even acrostic poetry, where you *Be sure to ask permission up these shipments for free, please contact our editorial staff at P.O. Box 1790, Ashburn, VA write a word or name vertically before starting any group and 20146-1790 or [email protected]. down the left side of the paper follow all your facility’s rules n and then use each letter to and regulations. Single Mom Found Riches the taxes, and that triggered Continued from page 1 a tax investigation. Michelle laid her situation “I was convinced, even before Sue, a friend from GET EQUIPPED IN GOD’S WORD! though I didn’t really have church. Sue told her plainly, a relationship with Christ, “Michelle, you’ve got to stop Free Bible Correspondence Courses—Enroll Today! that God was punishing me,” lying. There’s an old saying, she remembers.
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