I am so happy to know that even as a convicted murderer that God has cleansed me through the blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I read the passages of scripture you gave me, and they tell me just how awesome our Jesus is!!!

     Let me tell you a short story. Back in 2015 I started having a hard time swallowing and the providers here just gave me Prilosec and told me it will take a while to work but the problem will go away. Well over two years later the problem had progressed to where I could not even swallow water without pain and the providers still told me that the Prilosec would work, and they doubled the dosage. Here is where God stepped in the first time. I'm a type 2 diabetic and must be seen automatically once a year (they call it chronic clinic) but the providers on the unit were so far behind that they requested help to catch up. I was one of the ones that were behind on. In October 2017 a volunteer Doctor called me out. At first, she would not listen to me and only wanted to check how my diabetes was doing but I pressed her and told her my problems and that I had lost over 30 lbs. She looked at me and calmly told me it sounds like you have esophageal cancer. I’m going to refer you to Galveston Hospital. So on December 27, 2017 I was given an endoscopy and a very large tumor was found. They admitted me into the hospital to start a regime of test. After being in the room for about 3 hours an older Doctor came in with around 5 or 6 student (Galveston Hospital is a part of UTMB ) Dr's and told me that after reviewing my endoscopy and CT scans that he was sure that I had cancer both in my esophagus and it had already spread to my bladder making it stage IV cancer, explaining that esophageal cancer is one of the most aggressive Caners that there is and in a best case scenario I had 6 to 8 months left to live.

     Before we go any further let me explain that I've been locked up since September 1986 and there was not much good that I was involved in while in prison. I was into drugs, prison homemade wine and all kinds of other activities that were against the rules, I was no candidate for sainthood. That said.

     The night after the Dr. gave me the news I prayed in a very real way telling Him that I've made Him a ton of promises (fox hole prayers) over the years and I've not kept one of them, yet He never had let me down. I'm not asking for healing but what I am asking is for You to show me how to tell my baby girl (she was 4 when I was locked up, now she is 42) that I'm never going to make it back to her and that I will die in here. She has stuck beside me every second since I have been locked up (38 yrs.) . That was the prayer I sent to God that night.

When I woke the next morning there was this five foot nothing (maybe she was that tall) Asian looking Dr. staring at me through the glass window into my room, she made a motion as if to say that she wanted to talk to me, and I waved her in. She moved next to my bed, pushed my legs over, and hopped her little behind up on my bed (very much against the rules) she bent over with her face right in mine and softly said "they read the CT Scans wrong, you have two different kinds of cancer, neither has spread, and if you have any fight in you at all we can and will beat this, just let me get a team ready, and know that there will be times when you will want to give up, promise me you won't." Well Greg, I can tell you that was when I rededicated my life to Jesus, and I am 100% sure that He was the one that was leading that team of cancer Dr's. The treatments were never more than I could handle only puking one time and that was when they tried morphine on me. There were a few problems with the surgery both during and after but again nothing that I could not handle thanks to our Awesome God.

     They have checked me (CT scans, blood test, bladder scans) and there is no more cancer. Will you tell me again how Awesome our God is!!!

               I would only add that every day I thank God for that day, that gift He has given me.  I thank Him for every phone call to my beautiful daughter which He has given me the chance to get to know even more. I no longer take life, or God, for granted anymore…they are both very special to me.