Embracing Change

Lucretia Bowman continues to reveal the steps toward change.  She reveals how change can be uncomfortable at times but well worth it.  This episode covers steps 4 through 6 of Chapter 11.

Lucretia Bowman gives insight into how she developed steps to help someone else realize they can change if they have the courage.  This episode covers steps 1 through 3 of Chapter 11.

Still processing her new name, Lucretia begins to unravel her past so God can reweave her future.  

A simple family reunion for her foster family leads Lucretia to come face to face with her birth mother for the first time since she was a toddler.  This chance meeting reveals God's plans to give her a new name.    

Faced with writing a letter to the judge to explain why she is at the place she is in life, Lucretia Bowman faces it with brave determination and raw honestly.  The result landed her on the path to freedom.

Lucretia Bowman delves into how her view of incarceration changed when faced with willingly going back to prison in order to wait for a bed in a local program designed for paroled individuals.  In trusting God with her wait time she discovered a better way to spend her time rather than simply doing time.  

In Lucretia’s journey of self-discovery, she reflected on a time when an innocent lesson in writing her name in grade school lead her to realize her name was not the same as her mother's.  Her questions began the self-fulfilling prophecy that people could not be trusted. 

As a five-time convicted felon, Lucretia Bowman had been in and out of prison in Kentucky and Ohio for most of her adult life.  Upon hearing a voice call to her in jail, she set out on a course of discovery and healing through the power of God.  She discovered she had lived her life addicted to the cycle of self-abuse and began the journey of breaking that cycle forever.