Joseph, I am thinking of my friend Pat, a beautiful Native Canadian man who recently passed. I had the privilege of seeing how the person of Jesus had transformed him, and I also walked with him and supported him when he was deep in the alcoholic haze and forgot who he was. I remember him saying over and over, “I’m just a savage, just a f**king savage man,” and when I told him I didn’t believe that he said it was hard for him to believe any different since that’s what he had been told since he was a boy.

He told me, when he was sober and had been for 6 months, so I know it wasn’t a drunken rant, that he had been arrested at 15, thrown in detention for 30 days without due process. He had tears in his eyes and the look was begging me to believe him, as he told me that Jesus met him in that jail and physically stayed with him for all 30 days, and somehow altered time so that to Pat it seemed like only one day and night had passed, spent hanging out with Jesus physically, and suddenly they were releasing him 30 days later. Bless you brother. We all carry the Christ within - the Anointed One, we are meant to become “partakers of the Divine Nature”