I Met The Lord On My Knees On The Prison Floor

About the Book Alan R. Livingston's life of crime resulted in over 45 years of incarceration. Over decades, supportive inmates inside the walls lead Alan to the Lord, which changed his life forever. Since his release, Livingston's life has been blessed with a steady job and a loving church. Livingston hopes that if readers have not found the Lord, they will seek Him as he learned to do, as recounted in I Met The Lord On My Knees On The Prison Floor. About the Author Born in August, 1949, Alan entered the Helena State Training School for White Boys in Helena, Oklahoma at the age of 10. Experiencing an in-and-out public school education, Alan’s last year of school was in 1965. Held back in public school year after year and returned repeatedly to Helena, Alan was 16 years old when he left middle school. That year, he began to be prosecuted for his crimes as an adult. From that time forward, Alan was incarcerated and lived inside Oklahoma, Colorado and Texas prisons for 48 years. When released from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester, Oklahoma in 2015, Alan was 66 years old. It has been a labor of love to write his stories, and with his never-give-up attitude and with the help of his friends, Alan has done just that.

I started out as an innocent bystander, and I ended up suffering to the Bureau of Prison system. Because of Wesley's prolonged disobedience to the law, I've allowed myself to become a victim for accepting child support without the use of the court of law. With courage and faith in God, I filed an appeal with the help of my mom, Pokey, Shay, Cynt, and Tonio purchasing me a private attorney; but I still lost. My wrongful conviction gave me insight as how to deal with unfair circumstances in my life.After being taken from my family and friends, I now realized God had another plan and purpose for my life, one that did not involve a drug dealer taking care of me or retiring from Mercedes Benz, but going back to school to practice law to help the next person. I did not use my incarceration as an excuse for continued failure. Instead, I now live my life trusting in God, and more determined to do his will. Because of my faith and courage in God alone, he did not only deliver me from this difficult circumstance, he is also using me by telling my story so that other young ladies will not fall victim to the prison system by becoming involved with a baby daddy, boyfriend, or husband who's a drug dealer.With the knowledge and wisdom I have learned, I want to help prove God's existence and power to others as well. We need people in our justice system who will create wise solutions toward the various problems of our justice system and in our community such as more schools, rehabs, and just simple counseling, to transform and redirect our minds. I can never sit back and accept whatever has been handed down to me again. I will put up a fight so that the human race can start being treated more justly.

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For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith The Lord GOD. - Jeremiah 2:22 Daniel Paskins writes of his incarceration, contemplating, Can racism hold such power, denying, and surreptitiously concealing the right of an arrest? An In Depth reader will examine his unarmed truth, but will be shocked in noticing how the Delaware Criminal Injustice system responds. Defenseless against this stalwart, Daniel’s resilience begins through writing how his captors bind him in a due process less nightmare. This surrealistic, non-fiction autobiography allows, for the first time, the reader to see Daniel’s daily prison grind, his legal less court battles, and how he mentally eyed despondency, in turn, liberating his soul. In hopelessness, and suffering, endlessly expressed by Schopenhauer, to Melville’s rambling of the tragic, through some sense of evil, Daniel Paskins birthed an I.D.E.A. Method, keeping him civil, for seventeen years, in incivility. This is a court’s kidnapping horror, a must read for those who believe all men are equal.