Clark Fredericks

And that's the first time I ever heard the concept of free will, to be honest with you.

And that allowed all that anger,

and rage towards God to dissipate.

And that night I went up to my cell and I was able to pray when I went to bed and boom.

And I got books sent to me from all over the country.

Like almost every cell had my books in it because you could only have six books.

My locker had six books, your personal locker.

My roommate, so I had 12 books in my room.

My roommate, I'm like, hey, these are your six, these are my six.

And then other cells had my books.

And at one time I'm in my cell and I just called out to God.

I said, God, you gotta help me heal myself or kill myself.

Because I just can't go on feeling like this.

Just every day was just feeling so down and broken and depressed and empty.

And I heard like an internal voice say, pick up a book and start reading.

And I picked up the littlest book that somebody had sent me.

It was Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning from Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl.

And I read that.

There were so many great lines in there, but one line like,

flipped the switch in me.