Pollsmoor

I first will say that I have put some more photos online – three sets… Harmonus, Hout Bay and Misc.

I am not going to say a lot, I just want to share something that happened while I was at Pollsmoor Prison yesterday. I go into Pollsmoor every Friday to counsel women. Until yesterday, I had been observing and shadowing the other ladies that counsel there.

We went in yesterday morning and Stephanie and I went to the high security unit, i.e., the isolation unit. She has been counseling a girl there and I have been shadowing. When we went yesterday, there was another lady (we’ll call her Faith) who was in the cell next to the lady that Stephanie was counseling. Stephanie asked the warden if I could spend some time talking with Faith and the warden at first said no, because Faith is a Muslim and will not be interested in talking to me. Stephanie pursued it a little more and we decided that I would just talk to her and it wouldn’t be any type of formal counseling thing. So, I sat down and we talked and got to know each other a bit. I found out about her life and began asking her about her beliefs. Faith told me a little about Islam and explained to me that Allah is the “higher power” of her religion. I asked her if she believes in Allah. She said that she used to until about a year ago when Jesus began speaking to her!! Our conversation progressed from there, as you can imagine, and was amazing and humbling. She eventually got out her Bible and she had a letter in it that she had written to Jesus… just pouring out her heart to Him. She let me read it… I was speechless and still am. WHAT AN AWESOME GOD WE SERVE!!!

Love you all so much and am SO blessed to have you in my life!