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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 38 - Summer / Fall 2008

< Dedication
 
< Editorial: La Spiritualidad, un Sentido de Nuestra Humanidad
 
< Editorial: Spirituality, Helping our Sense of Self
 
< Wiccans
 
< Support Prisoners with Disabilities
 
< Jail Project's Success
 
< A New Awareness
 
< My survival was being blessed with many friends
 
< CCWP Organization and Staff
 
< Critical Resistance 10 Conference in Oakland
 
< A First Visit
 
< Not a Goodbye, a Change in Responsibilities
 
< Parole Beat
 
< Sandra Lawrence Ruling Important Victory / Shaputis Ruling a Setback
 
< Companeras on Spirituality / Compañeras y la espiritualidad
 
< The Spirituality of Transsexual Womanhood
 
< It's Your Health: Taking Care of Yourself
 
< Barack Obama Wins Historic Presidential Election!
 
< Defeat Cradle to Grave Incarceration: NO on Propositions 6 & 9!
 
< Legal Corner: Religious Belief Rights
 
< The Many Forms of Spirituality Inside
 
< Fire Inside Issue 38 Summer / Fall 2008 PDF File
 
       

Companeras on Spirituality / Compañeras y la espiritualidad

For the compañeras inside, believing in and having their faith is the tool that maintains their mental and physical health. The compañeras stated that being spiritual for them is something they practice daily. One compañera expressed the following: “I close my eyes and tell myself I’m standing before my creator and speak my mind as if I were speaking with my best friend. I express my concerns, my happy moments and sad moments. I maintained my sanity by conversing mentally when life appears hopeless and the injustice system prevails. These conversations are my prayers and so I pray to get through the day and everyday that I’m incarcerated.”

Para las compañeras que estan adentro su fe es la herramienta que mantiene su salud Mental y fisica. Las compañera indicaron que creyendo y manteniendo en su fe es algos que hacen diariamente. Una compañera expreso lo siguient que ella practica: Cierro mi ojos y me inmagino que estoy aldo del Creador y me habla directamente como si estuviera conversado con mi mejor amigo. Les cuento mis preocupaciones, mis momentos felices y momentos tristes. Mantengo mi salud mental conversando con mi Creador cuando la vida parece que no hay salida y este sistema de injusticia prevalece. Estan conversaciones son mis rezos y yo rezo todos los dias que estoy encarcerrada.

Last updated April 15, 2010 12:26 PM


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