Attending a writer’s retreat in Colorado this year, Cyndi Silvas began and finished her first book, “Shaking Prison Doors.”
Taking only two days to come up with the 21 day devotional, Silvas questioned if 21 days was enough to help her audience make it through the awaiting, challenging days ahead.
Writing for many years, Silvas felt compelled to reach the men and women who suffers as they endured life in prison and those who anticipate their return home.
As a minister, Silvas said the Lord instructed her to just do 21 days.
“You know, it takes 21 days to change a habit,” Silvas asked. “I asked him, shouldn’t I do 30 days or a year, but he said no.”
Known as the founder of Joel 2:25 Ministries, an outreach ministry of God’s restorative power to hurting women and children, as well as the Editor of “The Diamond,” a newsletter she designed as an outreach to the masses of incarcerated women, Silvas’ reassuring words has healed so many wounds of those who were once loss and broken. …show more content…
Understanding what it’s like to be both behind bars and to wait for a loved one to be release, Silvas opened up about her life through published works and ways to build a relationship with God.
Taking the blame for a crime she didn’t commit back in ‘93, Silvas served time at California Institution for Women in Corona, California, where she would later publish her first story.
“My first story was published on Christmas Day, 23 years ago,” Silvas exclaimed. “Press Enterprise, a paper that covers all of Riverside County printed it on the front page of their religion