Quote from Forum Archives on May 3, 2002, 8:33 am

Posted by: jpeters <jpeters@...>

Hello Men,

 

Art, who wrote this, is literally my brother, 5 years my junior. He is also my brother in Christ.  He volunteers at a state correctional institution in New York.  He has church services and Bible Studies with prisoners. This is a true story. 

 

I thought this might encourage you.

 

Yours for the Master,

 

Jack Peters

Your Friendly Moderator

 

If you want to contact Art, his address is ps23v1@aol.com. He is not on our mailing list.

 

----- Original Message -----

From: <a title=Ps23v1@aol.com href="mailto:Ps23v1@aol.com">Ps23v1@aol.com

Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 8:22 AM

Subject: My son Issac

As most of you know, Sue and I were not able to have children yet God in His infinite wisdom has given me a number of "sons" over the years. 

Issac is special and last night he made it more so....  After we at Washington Correctional prayed for an hour and a half, along with many others throughout the nation, he came over to me and hugged me.

Now Issac (this is how he spells it) is about six feet tall and a broad shouldered 19 year old.  He bent over and hugged me and said, "You know Art, I love you so much." 
I replied "I love you too, Issac" 

Then he added, "It is through you that I heard the Gospel, I mean really heard it!  And I love you for that."  By this time I was tearing up and I added "Issac a few guys get real close to me, and I call them my sons and your one of them."  He smiled a huge smile, and I added "You're my son because God gave me the privilege of watching as you accepted Christ as you Lord and Savior and were born again!"

Sometimes the places that God puts us is not where we expect to go BUT, the out come of GOING is truly terrific.

I apologize for talking about my kids, but I had to tell someone! 

Thanks for being there for me too!

I thank God for the people who organized the National Day of Prayer, a job well done.

Art