Making A Living

Earlier in life, I said many times, ‘If  I didn’t have to spend so much time making a living, I’d spend it helping  people.’ When I made that statement it never occurred to me that a prison  sentence would meet that objective.  So for the past two decades, I’ve  helped fellow inmates in myriad  ways—from writing letters to their  families to explaining how to find  the area of a circle so they could  pass GED tests, to, sometimes, just  listening to what they have to say.  -John, a member of CLF incarcerated in Oklahoma who died in 2020

What would you dedicated your life to if you didn’t have to spend so much time making a living?