Ravenna, MI
We recently received an email from Scott sharing the impact that NOOMA 010 | Lump had on him and his relationship with his son. We decided to visit Scott to hear more of his story…
I didn’t want to talk about my son. Every time I even thought about him and the mistakes he had made, I would feel so angry. I began to distance myself from him emotionally. Whenever people asked about him, I would simply pretend that I didn’t care about him anymore. But the reality was I did care, it was just too hard to talk about my son being in prison.
I had a lot of anger.
I hadn’t paid attention to how deep the anger had gone in me. It wasn’t until I watched the NOOMA called Lump that I realized just how deep it was. I realized that through everything my son had done and all the trouble he had gotten into, that God still loved him.
I thought, “If God can still love him, what has kept me from loving him?”
Personally, I have always known that there is nothing I could do that would make my parents love me any less. In fact, I would hear of people not being able to talk to their families and be like “What? You’re family, how is that possible?” But after the NOOMA Lump, I had to face the honest reality that I had become one of those people.
It was a really difficult thing to face, but for the first time, I was able to let go of my anger. This freedom is making me a better dad for my son and my daughter. Now whenever I talk to my son, I realize God is slowly healing our relationship.
An hour before we interviewed Scott, he received his first ever letter from his son in prison.