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, June 14, 2016

FATHER'S DAY

I pulled up the blog stuff and was looking it over.  I ran across something here on the 2 of 12 under the picture of me and my borther with our chaps on that I would like to make some changes to

It says here that I got married.....and wanted to get away from problems that brewed up over the years with my dad due to his drinking.

I don't want to hurt my dad in any way.  He's an extremely good man and has worked hard to overcome his own troubled existence. 

Daddy never had anything but the best intentions for me and still does to this day.  He will be 68 in July and still gets up each day for work to help the family survive.

This man loves me very much and vise-versa and it hurts me to even thing about possibly causing him any undue heartache.

He always had our best interest in  mind.
Deuteronomy 6:6-9

 6These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.

7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
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