"He came to pay a debt. He didn't owe because I owed a debt I couldn't pay." Murderer. It's a word few people ever expect to apply to them. But for fourteen-year-old Ray, it's suddenly a reality. Provoked by a gang leader into the random shooting of an innocent guy, Ray now faces a forty-year sentence in Chicago's infamous prison system. As far as Ray is concerned, it might as well be for life. In prison, Ray finds his gangbanger ties difficult to escape and even necessary for survival. Just when he's resigned himself to this new existence, though, Ray receives an unexpected gift - forgiveness. Even as he learns that the source of this forgiveness is God, Ray struggles with accepting it. And then the ultimate test comes. When faced with the man who ruined his life, can Ray extend the same forgiveness that has been handed to him?
- ISBN10 0764203231
- ISBN13 9780764203237
- Publish Date 1 July 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 May 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Baker Publishing Group
- Imprint Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English