Jackie, Pt. 1

She is someone who admits she took a very long and difficult road before finding her exit for the straight and narrow one. As she tells it, there is trauma and abuse, adultery and murder, grand theft and homelessness, broken family and loss. Yet at the end of it all there is redemption, restoration, and an incredible child of God with a story to tell.

Judgment Day

I spent the last couple weeks thinking of responses to the question, “How have you been blessed since Cassie’s passing?” Now with a court date approaching, I had 48 hours to respond to, “How have you been hurt since Cassie’s passing?” So in the course of a couple days, I had to think of what to say that would reflect both Cassie’s love of justice and her love for mercy and grace. I don’t know that there is an easy way to do that. But I tried to as best I could in my victim impact statement…