Bloom Where You Are Planted

This blog was created March 11, 2015. The contents of this blog contain correspondence between Chuckwa Don Crabtree and Gina Gillispie.

Although the two have never met, they became friends via mail when Gina, editor of an online news site, first reported Chuckwa's story.

When Gina saw his arrest photo, there was something that tugged at her to believe this person had a story to tell.

She mailed her first letter September 7, 2012 and they have been writing ever since.

After several years, Chuckwa decided he wanted to begin to tell his life story and send a message of hope to those who still have choices to make...his goal is to spend his time doing good things and good work right where he is....

Chuckwa has decided...to bloom where he is planted.

The posts that you will read will be a mix of old letters, stories about his everyday life in the James V. Allred Unit in Iowa Park, Texas and stories from his boyhood growing up along the creek in Palo Pinto County, Texas.

He signs his letters...."The Callisburg Kid"

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

THE PRODIGAL SON

So...I wanted to let the last post sink in a little bit. 

Have you ever in your life imagined such a tragedy as what happened to Jonathan McComb?  In all this time I cannot get his story out of my mind.

It gives me so much peace...his dream...
"Daddy, you made it, we didn't, Jesus picked us up at the river."

So...

One man who lost everything...tragically

One man who squandered everything...tragically

Who does God love the most?



Luke 15:11-32New International Version (NIV)

The Parable of the Lost Son

31 “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

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