"This Sacred Moment"

Kenny Johnson, 59, devoted his life to crime beginning in his early teens, and served over twenty years in various city, county, state, and federal prisons. During his early years in prison, he spent most of his time participating in all sorts of religious and substance abuse groups. It was his inner desire for freedom that led him and a band of truth-seekers to a meeting in the prison chapel. Gangaji, a spiritual teacher, answered his most pressing question: "It is my understanding that we have to wait until we die before we can receive God's Grace. Is that so?" She replied, "Kenny, God's Grace is here now! Kenny you think you are a convict, you think you are your name, you think you are a black man. Kenny you are none of these things." This was a turning point in Kenny’s life. Paroled from prison in 1997 and successfully discharged from Federal and State supervision, Kenny now resides in Sonoma, CA. He visits inmates weekly at San Quentin State Prison and the San Bruno County jail for men, facilitating spirituality groups, and also has a spirituality program in the San Francisco County Jail for women. Kenny's insights, as well as those of other spiritual teachers, have been published in the book, The Awakening West," by John Lumiere-Wins and Lynn Marie Lumiere. He is in the process of writing his memoir, entitled “This Sacred Space.”

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I have been touched by this video right in my heart and soul.. I feel a tingling and i know it is the power of the beauty inherent in life. Bless you Kenny, everyone in that room, the MensStoryProject and every person on this planet and beyond.