Light in the Gap
"You're going to make wrinkles in your forehead," the voice of my mother played in my mind as I walked out of the bus station. As part of a ministry called Light in the Gap , I had just been with a group who meet, visit, and pray with women just released from prison. Five days a week these newly-freed women come through the bus station in our town. From here they connect to cities all over Texas, where life on the outside awaits. The goal of this ministry is to fill this wait-for-the-bus gap with a smiling face, homemade cookies, a bag filled with items to help with a new start, a listening ear and a prayer. Connectors (women who go to the bus station to meet those just released) share the love of Jesus with those no-longer-prisoners as they step out of the prison van and into freedom. Conversations with a few of the women this day weighed heavy on my mind. How in the world would they ever make it? It seemed the deck was stacked against them. I had a hard time envi