When You Can't Escape

How can you learn to be content when you're trapped in a difficult situation?

There are some days when I feel like resigning from being—paralyzed," I joked honestly with the group of Christian inmates at a maximum-security prison. "Some days my weak shoulder muscles ache from holding up my heavy (notice I didn't say ‘big') head." A few men slapped their Bibles and laughed. "When my back gets tired from sitting, and

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