Hope Stronger Than Scars --- The Marion Wallace Story
During this powerful interview, Marion Wallace (Wife of Dr. Rick Wallace, published author, public speaker and psychologist), explains how she was able to not only survive CSA, but how she found healing, recovery and power through her faith in God, and her inexorable desire to win in life!
During this powerful interview, Marion Wallace (Wife of Dr. Rick Wallace, published author, public speaker and psychologist), explains how she was able to not only survive CSA, but how she found healing, recovery and power through her faith in God, and her inexorable desire to win in life!
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DALTON, 15<br />
MY PAST HAS BEEN BAD<br />
My past has been bad and it makes me sad,<br />
But the future can be good - I used to fight for the hood.<br />
When I be sitting in that cell – it felt like I was in hell.<br />
But when I open up my Bible it brings me joy<br />
Like when I was a little boy<br />
I know I’m a sinner but I’m gonna be a winner.<br />
My life has been terrible<br />
But the clothes that I had on my back were wearable.<br />
Life isn’t fair sometimes.<br />
People don’t care when you going to court in shackles<br />
– people just stare.<br />
How could I be so heartless?<br />
It’s weird ‘cause when I was hittin’ licks I was fearless<br />
But now I’m tryin’ to change my life. I be cryin’ at nightwishin’<br />
I was with my family, that I’ll get out of TYC<br />
And soon be free again. Never gonna get in trouble again<br />
– I’ma win. I’m never gonna sin from this point on.<br />
JESSIE<br />
INTO MY HEART<br />
As I sit here I think of my past, how I’m in jail cuz of my<br />
choice to do crime, I contemplate what my parents say.<br />
Why couldn’t I lead a good life? But, when I let Jesus<br />
into my heart, my sins were instantly forgotten. My soul<br />
was cleansed and made pure by the blood of God’s only<br />
begotten.<br />
I was given light and life through Jesus Christ - the Lord,<br />
the glorious Savior. Now I must read the Holy Bible –<br />
and apply it to my daily behavior.<br />
FREDERICK, 13<br />
TO MY FRIENDS,<br />
Jesus is the best man in the world, all you have to do is<br />
seek him. If He can change my life, he can change yours<br />
also. I started smoking when I was twelve, jumped off<br />
the porch at a young age. Didn’t care about God, my<br />
savior, until I came to jail. I can’t tell you how good His<br />
word is, you have to see for yourselves. But, I promise<br />
you, once you pick up the book of LIFE, you won’t<br />
wanna put it down.<br />
We all need to make a change in our life. Stop this smoking,<br />
drinking, sex and violence. This world is becoming a<br />
dangerous place to live and the only way you can see this<br />
happening is by picking up the Bible and reading and<br />
understanding it. Make a change in life, be a leader – not<br />
always a follower. I was a follower but God helped me to<br />
become<br />
8 7 a leader. God bless y’all!<br />
SAMUEL, 17<br />
THINGS I WAS DOIN’ IN THE STREETS<br />
I am locked up. I have been here for 10 months,<br />
charged with a serious crime. You may wonder<br />
how I got here. 10 months ago on October 31st,<br />
on Halloween day, my life changed forever. I was<br />
with some people that I used to call friends – but<br />
they were really not my friends. We were drinking<br />
and getting high, then later that day we did something<br />
I wish I never would have done – it’s in my<br />
head like it was yesterday. I wish I could take it<br />
back, but I understand that I did something bad<br />
and if I have to do some time, I’m going to do it.<br />
I wasn’t bad overnight - we used to smoke marijuana.<br />
I thought that was cool but it really was to<br />
make me fit in with them fools. I wanted to smoke<br />
more and more. I didn’t care what other people<br />
or my mom said. So one day, I just ran away from<br />
home. I was just doing what I wanted to do. I was<br />
breaking into people’s houses and stores. I was doing<br />
a lot of drugs and bad stuff and I didn’t care.<br />
I was just high every day. <strong>The</strong> streets and drugs<br />
didn’t give me nothing good. I was a part of a<br />
gang. <strong>The</strong> gang didn’t bring me nothing good. A<br />
lot of my friends, my real friends, were killed and<br />
I used to talk bad of my mom. My mom, she did<br />
everything for me but I didn’t do nothing for her<br />
– just bad stuff. Now that I’m locked up, my mom<br />
is the only one with me, helping me.<br />
When I first got here I didn’t believe in God and<br />
now I do. God and your family are the only ones<br />
who are going to be with you when something bad<br />
happens. It’s not too late to change. When I get<br />
out of here I am going to change and be with my<br />
family and the people I love the most. My life has<br />
changed a lot because of the drugs and gangs. My<br />
baby girl just died like two months ago and I was<br />
really hurt and I wanted to help others to stay out<br />
the streets because I know how it feels to be in<br />
the streets – smoking and doing other stuff. I just<br />
wanted to say that it is not too late to change. I<br />
also wanted to say sorry to my mom for all the bad<br />
things I did. Te quiero mucho. So for those of you<br />
that want to change, it’s not too late.
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