Formed By Distraction
This world is filled with engineered distractions like never before, pulling our attention away from what matters. Diversion numbs us to the confrontation we need to know ourselves and our God. The question takes on absolute urgency: What kind of man am I being formed into by endless distraction?”
To the Corrections Officers of the Ferguson Unit Prison, Texas
Your job is a difficult one. You are trained for suspicion and surrounded by negativity, which keeps you safe and alive, but perhaps that leaves you more negative at home, more cynical, and with a harder edge in your relationships outside the unit. A grueling job, especially in the summer time in Texas, has got to be almost impossible to not carry home.
