Josh Kezer: Avalon - Everything To Me

Monday, January 10, 2011

Avalon - Everything To Me

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JenniferJanuary 10, 2011 at 9:35 AM
Mr. Kezer... I was wondering if you accept gifts? I saw something that I wanted to get for you but I thought I should check with you first. Since seeing your story on 48 Hours Mystery I have been unable to stop thinking about you and the whole story. I pray for some closure for that family and for complete restoration for you - mind, body and soul. You're a much stronger person than I. Much stronger than most, I suspect. Many people would have buckled under the weight of your experiences. You seem to have bloomed somehow. A thousand Hallelujahs for that! What a special relationship you must have with our Lord. I've always been a spiritual and God-loving person, but I've never been baptised and I do not have the close relationship that I should have with Him. You have inspired me to persue Him with new desire in my heart. I want you to know that you've led me by example to do that, and I'm thankful for you and your witness. I have some issues in my life that I have ignored for too long. You have inspired me to work on that, as well. So, I would like to send you this gift...if possible. If you're not interested in receiving anything from a stranger, I will repectfully understand. I wrote an email to you recently explaining that I sent an email to Oprah Winfrey's website suggesting that they look into your story for a show topic. I hope thats ok. I only did this because I know the huge impact your experiences have had on me and I thought that perhaps with a broader platform you could reach an even bigger audience and save some souls. In addition, of course, to giving you a platform to address your interests in freeing other unjustly imprisioned men. I have included you in my prayers, and you'll stay there permanently. It's my prayer that God will keep you safe and use you as a tool to reach others..and to fully restore you in any way that your experiences may have diminished you. Stay safe and be well, Mr. Kezer. You are a walking-talking, flesh and blood miracle. God bless you.
Big, squeezy hugs!
Jennifer
JenT2000@comcast.net
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Josh KezerJanuary 10, 2011 at 10:44 AM
My mailing address is:

Joshua C. Kezer
PMB 171
2101 West Broadway, Suite 103
Columbia, MO. 65203

Thank you for your kind words and generous offer. Testimonies like yours encourage me to continue. Thank you for sharing it. I'm sure others, those that read my blog, will read it and be as blessed as I was when I read it.

May our Risen Lord give you many more reasons to live victorious for Him and in Him. He's given us the Cross and His Resurrection. He's given us His death and His life. Jesus is alive. And He's given us salvation and His heart.

Ephesians 3:14-21
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AnonymousJanuary 10, 2011 at 11:04 AM
I'd just like to say, I just watched the TV show about you, and I think you are an incredible role model and person in general. The kind of forgiveness you gave to person who wrongfully accused you restores my faith in humanity. Thank you for being on my TV this morning, you've really helped me.
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AnonymousJanuary 10, 2011 at 11:12 AM
Also, I'd like to make a concept album about your story. is that ok?
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Josh KezerJanuary 10, 2011 at 11:17 AM
Email me your ideas. We can discuss it. joshkezer@gmail.com
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JenniferJanuary 10, 2011 at 7:27 PM
Mr Kezer- After I read your response to my post, I got very excited about going back to the store to get the gift that I told you about. So, I left for the store right away. While on my way, I was at a stop light & I started to second guess myself...I had thoughts like "He'll probably think this is dumb...or he'll think I'm a total nutcase for doing this..". Then I noice the license plate on the car in front of me - Missouri plates!!! I'm in Indiana, so Missouri plates are few and far between...in fact I dont know if I've EVER seen a Missouri plate! It was either white or maybe light blue with an outline of the state - right?!? Anyway, I took it as a sign that I was doing the right thing. I guess I got really excited because I ended up getting a few things for you! Anyway, I will get it in the mail to you ASAP. I am a hair stylist and my work week is Tuesday - Saturday, so I may not be able to get to the post office until Monday, but I'll give you a "heads-up" when it's on it's way. Thanks again for letting me do this.
Be well and God bless your heart.
Jennifer
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Josh KezerJanuary 11, 2011 at 12:05 AM
Bless your heart, Jennifer. Your generous heart is blessing me.
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JenniferJanuary 19, 2011 at 4:40 PM
Have you ever heard the song "Long, Black Train" by Josh Turner? That guys voice is DEEP! Give it a shot, you might like it!
Jen
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At 18, I was arrested in Illinois and sent to Missouri on a 1st degree murder charge. At 19, I was erroneously convicted of 2nd degree murder and sentenced to two consecutive 30 year sentences. I was sentenced on the victim's birthday. The victim's name was Angela M. Lawless.

The day following my sentence, I was sent to the Missouri Department of Corrections, where my sentence was illegally reconfigured to a 60. I was illegally placed under life sentence sanctions. I did a total of 16 years, 10 of which was spent in Jefferson City's notorious "Walls", once rumored to be the largest prison in the world and a place Time Magazine once deemed "The Bloodiest 47 Acres In America".

Two days after my 34th birthday, I was released and declared "innocent". I was completely exonerated by Judge Richard Callahan on February 17th 2009 and released on the 18th.

I'm a blessed, loved and fortunate man of God.

I'm not trying to be a "good Christian" and I accept that I'm not. I'm just a genuine, authentic, messed up, jacked up, screwed up, busted up, mistake prone, "too much", love struck, silly, incurable, delivered, justified, redeemed and forgiven child of the King and follower of Christ.

I'm a public speaker.

When contacting me for an engagement, please include the following information in your invitation:

. Dates, times and locations

. Travel arrangements

. Your affiliations

. Your vision and purpose

. Why me? and Why you?

. Offered amenities and compensation

When I speak, my goal is to reach into every life listening to me. Everyone has something they're going through. Everyone has something to overcome. No matter what the circumstance, whether legal, criminal, personal, financial, physical, mental or spiritual, people have something to overcome. That's where my message comes in and tries to help. This wasn't who I was before I was locked up. It's who I am now.

What's your testimony?

Here's a snap shot of mine.

I've been beaten with fists and bats, stabbed, shot at, mobbed and ganged up on. As a teenager, I was in a Kankakee Illinois Chicagoland gang and was once addicted to several drugs and alcohol. I've had someone attempt to hit me with a car, nearly fallen to my death as a child and again as a teenager. I've known several forms and types of abuse. I've boxed, lifted weights, wrestled, done some martial arts and am proficient in street fighting. I've overdosed on cocaine and fallen asleep in my own vomit several times as a teenager. I've literally been thrown through walls, been homeless and slept in the worst places, and once, for a matter of months, faced the unfortunate and undeserved prospects of dying by lethal injection while facing charges for a murder I did not commit. I did 16 years in prison as an innocent man in the state of Missouri. I've defended myself against prison rapists and was once hospitalized for a week due to a failed attack by multiple men in the late 90's, and yet ... I'm still here! I'm still breathing! I'm a man of purpose and honor. I'm confident in who I am. I've known enough near death experiences to fill up a thesis, but it's not these near death experiences and atrocities that define me. It's my living and, more specifically, my living in my salvation in Christ that defines me and makes me who I am, and when I'm finished and it's all been said and done, I want to be forever known as a man proficient in a few attributes, as a gentle, loving, honorable and selfless man, a husband, a father and a friend that reflects more of Him and less of me.

In light of my own faults, sins and frailty, of everything I've ever learned, I've learned this more than anything; more than the Cross, I need the Lord of the conquered Cross of sin and death. I need the Life Giver. I need Jesus. Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I am unashamed.

"I was crushed...so much so that I despaired even of life, but that was to make me rely not on myself, but on the God who raises the dead." 2nd Corinthians 1:8,9

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Avalon - Everything To Me

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