"Eight years ago, my 23-year-old son was murdered by two young men who were trying to recruit his younger brother into a gang. My older son confronted the gang members, who robbed him, shot him in the back, and left him to die. During the trial, one of the young men said he heard my son take his last breath. The trial was terrible. The families of the gang members kept laughing, and the judge had to stop the trial to say: 'This is not funny. Someone's life has been taken.' Both of the gang members are in jail now---one with a life sentence, one serving twenty years. I journaled during the whole process, which was the only way I got through it. The book that came from that experience, God's Grace is Sufficient: A Life After Homicide, is also in journal form. With God's help, I was finally able to come to a place where I could go on living. His grace is truly sufficient. I remember at one point, sitting on the bathroom floor, crying and asking God where He was when my son passed away. He said to me, 'The same place I was when my son passed away.'"
*Jean Jackson is a pen name.
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