Father Dan Reehil

I'm speaking at a prison to, you know, 500 people

murderers and rapists, who, by the way, probably 80% of them were sexually abused as kids, and they went into drugs, and then they went into getting the money for those drugs and got involved in all sorts of bad things, where I'm preaching to them my story and telling them that God has a plan for their life too, and I'm watching these big, huge, skinhead murderers, and there's just tears coming down.

Because they've never heard this.

No one's ever told them that, one, God loves them, that, two, he has a plan to rescue them and get them free again, and that he's never stopped loving them.

Like, they've never heard this.

whoa, okay.

So this is going on for quite a bit of time.

I'm now older.

I'm sitting in the chapel one day praying and the Lord says to me, can I ask you a question?

And I'm like, okay, but you've never asked me if you want to ask me a question before.

What is this about?

If you want to take some questions, you just ask it.

He goes, I want you to remember this.

I don't want you to ever forget it.

So if I could take you back to being 10 years old before you were abused and let you live your life going forward that way, knowing what you know now and knowing that I've healed you completely and knowing how much I've used you already to help people, you're not even ordained, would you change your life?

And I had to think about it and I was like,

No, I'm good.

Because I don't have any of the baggage.

I don't have any of the pain.

But I'm seeing how you're using me to help other people.