Come with me to the most populated prison in the world. The facility has more inmates that bunks. More prisoners than plates. More residents than resources.
Come with me to the world's most oppressive prison. Just ask the inmates; they will tell you. They are overworked and underfed. Their walls are bare and bunks hard.
No prison is so populated, no prison is so oppressive, and, what's more, no prison is so permanent. Most inmates never leave. They never escape. They never get released. They serve a life sentence in this overcrowded, under provisioned facility.
The name of this prison? You'll see it over the entrance. Rainbowed over the gate are four cast-iron letters that spell out its name
W-A-N-T
The prison of want. You've seen her prisoners. They are "in want." They want something. They want something bigger. Nicer. Faster. Thinner. They want.
They don't want much, mind you. They just want one thing. One new job. One new car. One new house. One new spouse. They don't want much. They just want one.
And when they have 'one', they will be happy. And they are right - they will be happy. When they have 'one', they will leave the prison. But then it happens. The new car smell passes. The new job gets old. The neighbors buy a larger television set. The new spouse has bad habits. The sizzle fizzles, and before you know it, another ex-con breaks parole and returns to prison.
Excerpt from Traveling Light by Max Lucado
Come with me to the world's most oppressive prison. Just ask the inmates; they will tell you. They are overworked and underfed. Their walls are bare and bunks hard.
No prison is so populated, no prison is so oppressive, and, what's more, no prison is so permanent. Most inmates never leave. They never escape. They never get released. They serve a life sentence in this overcrowded, under provisioned facility.
The name of this prison? You'll see it over the entrance. Rainbowed over the gate are four cast-iron letters that spell out its name
W-A-N-T
The prison of want. You've seen her prisoners. They are "in want." They want something. They want something bigger. Nicer. Faster. Thinner. They want.
They don't want much, mind you. They just want one thing. One new job. One new car. One new house. One new spouse. They don't want much. They just want one.
And when they have 'one', they will be happy. And they are right - they will be happy. When they have 'one', they will leave the prison. But then it happens. The new car smell passes. The new job gets old. The neighbors buy a larger television set. The new spouse has bad habits. The sizzle fizzles, and before you know it, another ex-con breaks parole and returns to prison.
Excerpt from Traveling Light by Max Lucado
