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How Faith Made A Mother Take Her Bible Into Court Knowing She Would Rather Offend A Juror Than Offend God
Ellaville, GA, October 31, in the year of our Lord 2011
- Jackie Carpenter describes herself as a businesswoman,
volunteer and reluctant author because she never intended to
become an author, nor expected to be a resource for people
facing a crisis in life. But she took the worst crisis in her
life and the miracle that stemmed from it and wove it into a
dramatic and heart-wrenching story.
The Bridge: Between Cell Block A and a Miracle is Psalm 91
(Xulon Publishing) is the powerful and compelling story of the
terrifying journey that began the morning she received a frantic
call from her son’s wife telling her that he had been arrested
for felony murder, and it did not end until the jury returned
its verdict ten months later.
Jackie Carpenter was living the true American Dream. She had
good health, a beautiful home, married to a wonderful man, and
had two married sons and four grandchildren - she honestly
believed life could not get any better. It was then she
discovered it could get a whole lot worse. The Bridge tells the
frightening chain of events that occurred after her son, the
victim of copper thefts on his construction job sites, was
guarding his property on the advice of a deputy. In the early
morning hours of June 27, 2008, he attempted a citizen’s arrest
when his gun accidentally fired, wounding one of the alleged
thieves. Hours later when the man died from the wound, the
deputy recanted his advice and her son Jason was taken into
custody and charged with felony murder and four other serious
charges.
At a time when Jackie Carpenter’s world was turned upside down
she did the one thing she knew how to do – she turned to God. It
took ten long months, many visits to her prayer closet, and the
help of Psalm 91 for the author to build her faith to the point
where she believed God would perform a miracle. And on April 16,
2009 at 3:40 p.m. she got her miracle when her son went from
being on Cell Block A (where murderers are housed) to freedom
after the jury returned a verdict of “Not Guilty!”
While The Bridge is the story of her walk of faith, the sequel
Georgia Justice: A Story To Faith, acts as a guide for building
faith in the face of tragedy or grief and tells how a tormented
mother made the critical decision that allowed God to deliver
such a miracle. It is a powerful testimony to the spiritual
strength this small-town girl found in the promises of Psalm 91
and how she built her faith up during the tormenting ten months
leading up to her son’s trial.
When this Georgia mother made the fateful decision to carry her
Bible into the courtroom, against the wishes of her son’s
attorney who felt a non-believing juror could be offended and
hold it against her son, she made a huge leap of faith by
deciding she would rather offend a juror than offend God – she
got her miracle in the form of an acquittal!
Jackie Carpenter has made numerous appearances on television, in
radio interviews and in newspaper articles and her books will be
produced into a motion picture that will be in theaters the fall
of 2012. For more information on this author and her miraculous
story of faith, hope and love that brought her to victory,
please visit her website at:
www.bridgetoamiracle.com.