BARTOW, Fla. – James Bain used a cell phone for the first time Thursday, calling his elderly mother to tell her he had been freed after 35 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.
Mobile devices didn't exist in 1974, the year he was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping a 9-year-old boy and raping him in a nearby field.
Neither did the sophisticated DNA testing that officials more recently used to determine he could not have been the rapist.
You can read the full article here by MITCH STACY, Associated Press Writer.
This statement stuck out to me from all the rest:
"No, I'm not angry," he said. "Because I've got God."
Love truly is supernatural, truly is from God, truly is God. God is love.
I don't know anything about this man, his life - it doesn't matter. That statement was a testimony all in itself.
Even outside of the context of his case, just keeping that attitude of forgiveness (even when outrage might seem justified) and letting the love of God flow throughout you is freeing in itself. When you have God, you don't have anger, bitterness, hate.
I look at what Jesus went through during his Crucifixion, and how all those egregious things happened to the Son of God - THE SON OF GOD! And the words that came from Jesus were all in love, truth, and peace, "Forgive them Father..." That act puts hate to shame. Hate is embarrassing.
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"The Oasis of My Nation" is Simone Youngblood's debut collection of ten poems, released in September 2008.
The work meditates on words, their unapparent immediacies and the relationship of both to god. Fundamentally, it might be called an "experimental" book of prayer and thanksgiving.
The poems were mostly written from the point at which Simone recalls (mis)acquiring language to 2008.
Based on responses Simone has received from patient people who have read "The Oasis of My Nation," I urge you to close your eyes and put on your reading glasses before embarking.
Simone is a poet born and raised in Northern California. She recently received her Masters in English/Creative Writing.
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Bless you all.
