These are 234 dozen cookies baked by members and friends of Amana Christian Fellowship in Maurice, Louisiana.
Tomorrow they will head to Angola, once the bloodiest prison in America, no longer so.
They were baked in kitchens throughout the area by boys and girls and men and women. They will join many other cookies baked by Baptists, Catholics, Methodists, Episcopalians, and many others. They will be mixed with cookies baked by blacks and whites and some in between.
Over this weekend they will be consumed by convicted murders, rapists, drug dealers and some guys who did some bad stuff and never got caught.
They will be munched on by men hearing about Jesus for the first time and by some hearing about Jesus for the first time in a new and exciting way. They will be consumed by men from the outside sitting along side men on the inside. They will convey love and prayers and concerns. They will help make memories and change lives.
Some will be taken back deep into the prison and given by men as an offering of forgiveness to men with whom they have fought and struggled. They will be shared with correctional officers, some of whom have been kind and some not. They will bring back memories of family to men who haven’t seen their families in so long that they can no longer accurately recall the faces from the time before their crime.
They will remind of moms, and grand mothers and warm kitchens and holidays long forgotten. Best of all in their crunchy crumbs and chocolate chips will be pieces of Jesus and a gift of love and a hope of change.
Amana, you did good. Be blessed and thanks on behalf of men who today think they are forgotten and tomorrow will begin a change that will last forever.
And you thought they were just cookies. Silly, silly you.
Nick
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