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"

Thursday, November 19, 2015

MURDER

I have lived in this quiet little community my entire life
and never in one million years
would I have ever believed
MURDER
would be the headlines for our little news sites


This young man went off the deep end and killed his mother and her boyfriend
he had a life, a wife and three little boys

He did the deed in Booker, Texas, up the road some miles, but drove through our little town and stole a vehicle, causing a horrible crash during a chase, and leaving a dead body behind at the home of an innocent family.  He left the other dead body on the side of the road.

BIG
BIG
news day...
not the kind I like


and as the communities and families involved slowly begin to grasp reality
this young man is found guilty yesterday, in a murder for hire plot
*he will serve the rest of his life in prison*

Mike was a little boy growing up in Spearman and friends with both my younger brothers.
They rode bikes, swam at the local pool, popped firecrackers and studied math and spelling.

He went on to become a successful doctor and was convicted of hiring a killer to murder a Lubbock doctor who began dating his girlfriend.

It is incredible to me that such things could happen.
It breaks my heart for all of those involved and yes I admit
I feel great sympathy even for those that committed the crime.

What?Went?Wrong?

this is my opinion and it's not really an opinion because if you believe in the bible...
such a thing that happened to these men and Chuckwa...
could happen to you or me
 Job 1:7
The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it."
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