Monday, October 27, 2008

My little Angels


God has put angels in my life. I work at a job that a lot to men can not do. I wear a gray drab uniform and were combat boots. Yep that is right, combat boots and there is a real combat going on in prison. It looks on the surface as though it is the good inmates verses the bad, but the truth is it is good verses evil. There are a lot of Christian inmates and a lot of Satan worshipers. We have gangs that hate each other, the Arian Brotherhood, the Bloods, The Crips and many more. It is a melting pot of good and evil. One of the AB’s threaten one of the White Nights last week and we had to do a life endangerment, and lock the threatened one up for his safety. It is always drama at work. Anyway I got home and was browsing through my pictures and saw my little angels and all was well in my world. My little angels are my children, their spouses and my grandchildren and my sweet husband Terry. I get home and all is well with my world. There is a song about kisses from heaven and that is what it feels like when I get home. Like God is sending me kisses from heaven. I know I ramble, but my life is two different worlds. I know I make a difference at work. If I did not believe that I would change jobs, and I think that is why God has sent the angels into my life. Life is good. I have never been so happy. Thank you Jesus for all my Angels and all the kisses you send to me.

Life is good and God keeps me safe



Ok, a few months ago, an inmate threatened me and tdcj in their wisdom did nothing about it. I feel this inmate is a threat and should be locked up. Well last week this inmate attacked another officer and hit him in the eye. They took the inmate down and he did not look so good when they were through. He will now be locked up in ad-seg where he can not be around anyone without hand cuffs on. He will be in his cell 22 hours a day, only coming out for recreation for two hours a day. I am so glad. I knew this inmate was a threat to me and I still had to work with him almost every day. I pray for my safety ever day, and my God has not failed me yet. I feel so much safer now with him locked down. Thank you Jesus for keeping me safe in an environment that is far from safe.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Yesterday was not good

Yesterday I was on a building that nothing worked. No speakers, no remote, and so hot and smelly. It is strange, we spend so much money on prisons but then we don't keep them up. All offenders are supposed to have access to there cells once an hour. You do what is called an in and an out. You walk door to door putting all the inmates that want in there cell into their cell, then you start over going door to door letting them all out. It takes from fifteen to twenty minutes. That is not a hard thing to do. Once an hour you bring the remote from tv to tv. The inmates stay pretty calm on the wings even in 100 plus weather if they are given what they are supposed to have. Well, with no speakers, any offender called out for anything you have to walk up and down stairs door to door to find and inmates are called out all day long. Needless to say the inmates did not get all the ins and outs they were supposed to. There was no time. Add to that we had no remote on the building and I had to leave my building and walk about a block to get a remote from another building and then walk back to return it. They got very few channel checks either. Add to that in my morning shake down where we search the common area for contraband, I found there stash of about five gallons on wine. There hated that. It was about ready to drink. I got called every name they could think of. Add to that a picket boss who was trying to read a book and not open doors for us. It made for a very stressful day. Some days it is hard to maintain you Christian attitude. Yesterday was on of them.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Steve

While working the the kitchen in the prison, I had and inmate Steve who was a Satan worshiper. A fellow Christian officer and I were always telling him about Jesus, and how much he was loved. He told me his mother was a prostitute and he did not know who his father was. I looked him up online to see what he was in for and he was in for robbery. Not too bad of a crime. Anyway, he thought it was fun to shock people with saying, "I am a bastard, and my mom is a prostitute." It did get attention. After witnessing to him for over a year, I left the kitchen and went back to the buildings to work. One day Steve walked up to me and said he was converted. I am like, "What does that mean Steve?" "I know God is real and Jesus is alive in my heart!" he replied. Wow! I was so happy. Now Steve is covered with Satanic tattoos, but his heart is alive in the Lord. He got baptized a couple weeks ago, and came out of the water with a loud shout, both hands in the air, "YES!" He is so excited about his walk with the Lord. Good things do happen in prison. Maybe he had to go there to find the Lord. He now knows who his father is. Praise God.