You learn a lot serving out a life sentence. Did you know that?
Like not all criminals are evil. Sometimes desperate people do desperate things.
I was safer in prison than I ever had been under Dennis’s roof. If it hadn’t been for the stress of the trial itself and the knowledge that if the jury found me guilty I’d never see you again, I could have felt perfectly at peace.
I gave my life to Christ right before my sentencing. There was a Bible study for the women prisoners. I started going, desperate to give hope or meaning to the terror I’d lived through.
It was in prison that I learned how to pray. Of course, anybody can pray when their husband’s beating them up, but my new kind of prayers were different.
I prayed for all the other people Dennis had hurt. Asked God to heal their woun
