The Word Among Us

August 2004 Issue

A Brother in Prison

How God made me and my wife part of a very unusual family.

By: Dale Recinella

It’s the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Our family is well into the four-hour trip from our home in Jacksonville, Florida, to a large medium-security prison near Pensacola.

We’ll arrive at the prison around 8:30 a.m., stay until 2:00 p.m., and then make the reverse drive back home. Eight hours in the car for...

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