Randi's Reality

Today is Thursday, December 4th. I want to thank everyone who has been reading our blogs. Sorry there haven't been as many letters as before.

But God is still here in this place! Every day! And we are on FIRE! Every day!

We get confirmations from Him through His Word all the time. And prayers are being answered. We started praying in groups. Our little corner prays together every day. And let me tell you way - Lisa is growing! She is learning...and she is a praying fool!

She came to the table for count the other day, grabbed my hand and said, "I need to pray," and she held nothing back! She is bold for the Lord. And she is definitely getting her blessings. She went to court this week and the judge gave her 4 months! So she will be going home in January! Thank you Lord!

Please keep her in the forefront of your prayers so that she leaves here with all of the wisdom and knowledge that she needs so she can take it home to her boys & share her faith with them.

I have a great bunkee and she has grown so much since she's been here! God truly brings people here for a reason! And He is getting all the glory for whats going on behind these bars!



One of my favorite scriptures that I flipped open to this morning:

"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen!" Ephesians 3:20

Love,

Randi

Hello Readers,

I'm sitting on my bunk once again. Watching ladies grow stronger, some are losing their faith, and others just like me - lost souls - are trying to learn God's words. I watch as the Lord blesses some ladies. Others wondering when it is their turn. Some stay focused and others loose focus. Some just smile - putting everything in God's hands.

There are still a lot of us searching...wanting to know what God has in store for us - and why life lessons have to be so hard. Day after day - we smile and try to make the best of it. Hoping and praying for God to show us the right path.


I would like to explain West Baton Rouge Correction Center. When there's friction, the devil is hard at work. He's strong and moves fast with no mercy. Together we stand with the Lord's help - we are stronger than him. Everyone is different in their own way. I know hearts are the same. When one of us has good news - we all cheer. One has bad news - we are athere to wipe the tears away. No one is left alone.

I would like to say thank you for everyone's help. It's amazing how God can take a handful of women and help them pull together. We dont judge - its not our place. As a group - we study and pray - we lean on each other for strength and wisdom.

It fills my heart and my mind to know that the Lord is here with us. I heard a saying before that the jailhouse rocks. I never knew what that meant until now.

Every day, Randi prays for court time - its at 4:45am. She always stays focused. She doesnt know that I am praying with her - asking the Lord to help her with her situation at hand. I watch in amazement at how she can walk around this dorm with a smile and a helping hand. Never has a complaint - never expecting anything in return. If God sent us an angel - it is her.

Trust and believe that my heart is filled with joy and peace that I have found the Lord. And he loves me enough to send me to this jail.

I havent heard anything about my court date. I am content with that. I still have a lot to learn before I'm strong enough to do this on my own. When the good Lord is ready - I will be released.

I have one more request - I ask all readers to please pray for Randi and me also - and all the ladies that are incarcerated - for us to be judged by our hearts not our sin.

Psalm 15: 2-5

"He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from the heart and has no slander on his tongue. Who does his neighbors no wrong and has no slur on his fellowman, who despises a vile man, but honors those who fear the Lord. Who keeps his oat even when it hurts, who lends his money without usury, and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken."

Lisa Holliday
10/15/2008

Hello Readers,

My name is Lisa Holliday. I was arrested in 2005 for Counterfeit Money. Greed was my sin. I did time in a federal prison and two years of supervised release. I am waiting to see the judge for another sin - I am hoping for the best but expecting the worst. I can tell you my life story - but that's not why I am writing. I want to tell you about a little lost soul. That found hope and peace within.

I am incarcerated in West Baton Rouge Correctional Center. Randi is my bunkie. She has been in for a while now. When I arrived I felt lost and scared. Randi welcomed me with open arms and we have become good friends. She listens to my problems and never judges me. She is an amazing person! She just got caught up in her own sin.

She started to teach me about the Bible. We started from the beginning. She told me to put my faith into God's hands. She walked with me like I was a lost child trying to find my way home. Chapter by chapter we studied - making sure I understood what I was reading like it was a history lesson.

I was stressing about life. Where I was going and where I had been. She looked at me with this belief that I have never seen before.

She told me that it was in God's purpose that I was here.
He was with me - trust in him and he will direct me into the right path. She said this with a full heart. She puts everything in her faith. I sit here and look around the dorm in different eyes now. Watching women enter and leave and return with tears in their eyes. Some of them in shame, and others with no remorse at all. Most of the women have hearts of gold. Other are confused and looking for some kind of guidance in their lives. They are blind. I pray for everyone to find what they are looking for and stay strong.

As for me - I pray the lord wont let me forget what I have learned in this jail.

I have done time before and was arrested several times. Never was I interested in the Lord until now.

I know in my heart the Lord was reaching out. I wasn't paying attention.

I'm not sure what it was that got my attention. Was I tired of this life or was it Randi...standing there with her Bible...asking me to study with her. She helped me to learn the Word of the Lord.

Now I know the Lord will carry me through this hard time. I'm asking all of the readers to please pray for the ladies at West Baton Rouge Correction Center that are in a time of truth and desperation. Let the Lord lift them through Jesus Christ.

As for Randi - I would like to say thank you for helping a lost soul find herself.

John 15:11-13
These things I have spoke unto you, that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full. This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love has no man that this - that a man lay down his life for his friends.

{My Lord is ever with me along life's busy way; I trust in him completely day by day....Amen}


Sincerely,

Lisa Holliday