 We would like to thank everyone who supports us not only financially but with the caring calls and letters. We are moved by many of these heartfelt letters of appreciation as they encourage us here at the Foundation and provide valuable insights and inspiration to those who are desperately searching for answers to the suffering and turmoil in their lives.
Thank You,
Roy and the FHU staff |
Since 2001 the Foundation has received over 19,000 letters of appreciation (from prisoners alone)
who have been helped by our radio programs and the free books and materials provided by the FHU's prison ministry.
Many of these letters hold profound stories of hope and success.
We would like to share with you a few of the thousands of stories that inspire us.
Listener Letters - Prisoner Letters - Include your letter or testimonial.
Since 2001 the Foundation has received over 19,000 letters of appreciation (from prisoners alone) who have been helped by our radio programs and the free books and materials provided by the FHU's prison ministry. Many of these letters hold profound stories of hope and success. We would like to share with you a few of the thousands of stories that inspire us.
We would like to thank everyone who supports us not only financially but with the caring calls and letters. We are moved by many of these heartfelt letters of appreciation as they encourage us here at the Foundation and provide valuable insights and inspiration to those who are desperately searching for answers to the suffering and turmoil in their lives.
Thank You,
Roy and the FHU staff |
Dear Colonel Monaco,
Thank you for the energetic and hopeful dialogue we have entered into regarding Patriot Outreach. I am always looking for morally and psychologically sound materials that a chaplain can use to boost a unit’s morale and enhance a Soldier’s resilience. Your Coping Strategies CD is an effective and practical tool that enhances stress management and builds resilience within the mind and emotion of the warrior.
I am especially thankful for the Be Still and Know Exercise. It is a good self awareness exercise, comparable to the concept of mindfulness used within the field of empirically researched psychology. I have integrated the exercise into my own personal life as a Christian Chaplain. It assists me in being effective in what I call a listening prayer. My foundational written statement for listening prayer is found in Psalm 46:10, “Be still and know I am God.” The essence of this spiritual discipline calms my soul, improves my emotional regulation, and enhances my critical thinking skills.
I read a small, but powerful book by Charles Swindoll, Intimacy with the Almighty, several years ago. This book helped transform my life as a war veteran chaplain. The book clarified if I am to be resilient in this difficult world, I must practice the four spiritual disciplines of simplicity, silence, solitude, and surrender. The Be Still and Know Exercise helped me practice these four disciplines on a consistent basis.
My average day is filled with phone calls, emails, visits, and deadlines. It seems to me the Blackberry and computer tends to escalate distress signals in my brain as I suffer with an overload of information and tasks to be completed each day. Charles Swindoll said it best when he stated, “Everything around us works against reordering and simplifying our lives. Everything! Ours is a complicated and cluttered world.” The Be Still and Know Exercise used as a listening prayer decreases the clutter in my mind and helps me be more effective and creative in my thought process.
The practice of silence and solitude is at the very core of the Be Still and Know Exercise. Learning to be still is one of the most needed, yet most difficult spiritual disciplines today. I remember my struggle when I first became intentional about practicing being still. It was just like the noted Roman Catholic Priest, Henri Nouwen stated, “Time in solitude may at first seem little more than a time in which we are bombarded by thousands of thoughts and feelings that emerge from hidden areas of our mind. It can feel like a multitude of confusing thoughts are jumping around in the mind like monkeys in a banana tree.” Indeed, this was my experience early on. However, I have observed as I continue the practice of silence and solitude my mind becomes more rested. It also seems my resilience in thinking straight under pressure is improved.
Last of all, there is the issue of surrender. It is an issue of how I want my day to go versus how my day actually does go. A few years ago, while practicing the essence of be still and know, I came to a powerful awareness of what my core daily struggle is. I want my day to go my way. I am finally learning to let go of those things I cannot control or change. I am finally learning that surrendering my days and future to God, not as I would have it, is the most responsible act of obedience I can do. This transformative attitude is a lighter burden for me to carry. It certainly decreases my frustration and distress levels.
Colonel Monaco, I need simplicity, silence, solitude, and surrender in my life to be an effective, resilient military chaplain in today’s complex world. Thank you for introducing me to the Coping Strategies CD. It is a helpful tool that can help many other military personnel become the resilient leaders we all need to be in the rapidly changing environment in which we live.
Chaplain (LTC) Phillip L. Pringle
US Army (Southern Baptist)
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Thank you & I would like to share the realization that
we are to live moment by moment with the thankfulness of the forever good
life we have been given by our Saviour and God. Only after being still for
days and then speaking with Roy along with some of my own experiences did
this realization come. We have been given a grace (spirit) beyond words that
can even overcome the bad foods that have changed people's genetics that may
cause challenges at birth and many other diseases due to lifestyle, eating
and of course lack of spiritual health. We have even been given grace and
skills to deal with the physical health and of course emotional/mental and
the most important spiritual peace within to handle anything. This true love
was shown to us and has not been let go and we can love also. I have learned
that some of my resentments in the subconscious might be because of the fact
that original paradise was lost and we have to deal with all these
challenges, however, that is nonsense because God has...
- Mark |
| Listener Letters - Prisoner Letters - Include your letter or testimonial. |
Listener letters:
 Frank K "If I'd understood you fully back then, how much simpler my life would be."
Fran E "I have my priorities in order and it’s wonderful."
Daniel C "Finding the lighthouse through the fog."
Deanna R "I felt as though my mind was frozen."
Sidonie "You are the only dad I’ve ever known."
Kitty M "Letting go and letting God."
Alice L "Your teachings have been so helpful in dealing with relationships."
John T "Who could ever grow tired of hearing inspired words?"
Kit C "My father had no idea of how to raise children."
Rochelle P "My 19-year-old son senses this patience."
Paula H "Meditation is crucial for my life and the lives of my children."
Ted K "My life has been changed immensely."
R.T. "Food is a problem."
Susan B "My dad was a mafia guy...who said he would shoot you if you 'changed me.'”
Fran V "Today he is starting to exercise and he is not smoking."
Tina K "I was in a car accident this morning."
Maria G "Something said, 'Don’t be afraid.'”
Phyllis W "What a disgusting revelation!!! Thank God!!!"
Wayne R "Yeah, it's been hard not having a father around."
Alice S "You are so right about us women."
Anthony J "I stuck with you to see for myself."
Bonnie M "Your program works! We should call you, 'Roy Masters, M.D.'"
Tom A "My father and his buddy raped my first girlfriend."
Laura T "I’ve been an alcoholic most of my adult life."
Paul T "You are the best church – God bless you all!"
Wanda S "I am so full of anger and hate that I caused my own husband to die early."
Margaret A "It hit me like a bolt of lightening--my life was not my own."
Thomas G "Most addicts (I was one) don’t even know what is happening to them."
Victor R "I can now see loving criticism and guidance as freeing."
Phyllis W "My resentment has infected everyone."
Tommy D "No longer in the woods."
Rita S "I may be able to survive this crippling condition."
Sandy W "Are you a hypocrite?"
Rochelle R "Also, the arthritis condition in my neck has very much improved!"
Sandra S "Since I discovered your radio show I have not had one drop of alcohol!"
Ray R "Let me thank you for the advice and help I received."
Sharon G “Why am I here?"
Pat D "Thanks for being my '3rd dad.'”
Sydney B "I'm not a 'Roybot' but I appreciate your gifts."
Lance W "A few years ago I was using drugs and needed more money."
Dorothy "When I was 15 my step-father asked me to have a baby for him."
John L "Being overweight troubles me and clearly it comes from the reasons you discussed."
David M "I began meditating again, and I am receiving benefit."
Karen W "As a little girl, mom made me feel two things most of the time."
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Prisoner Letters:
Frank K "I am in prison yet I am freer today than I have ever been."
Mathew T "Maybe you have some idea of the suffering and tears I’ve shed."
William R "A taste of the 'truth.'"
William J "I have a new family now."
Curtis E "It is like a magical answer."
Thomas P "I no longer live in fear."
Kris D "Your show has helped me see how humble I should be."
Joan L "My poor mother: Up through her comes the devastating effects of incestuous abuse."
Kris D "Your show has helped me see how humble I should be."
Roy J "Sometimes I just want to give up."
J. G "..that book should be sold under the heading of 'Shock Treatment!'"
Colman B "The ability to cure a murderer."
Ron F "How do I find meaning in this insanity?"
Colman B "I just really want those who donate to know that we are truly grateful."
Michael Z "Knowledge is not the answer, understanding is!!"
Derrick P "I am telling more inmates about you."
David K "I never even knew it was a problem."
Damon J "I’ve now found clarity through this hidden jewel of literature."
Shawn S
"I am progressively overcoming my angers and resentments – thank God."
George C "Your insight is absolutely uncanny."
Larry M "My jail was anger at God, not alcohol!"
Efran C "For the first time in my life I feel free."
Daniel T "My problem is with drugs."
John F "This woman of my dreams was faceless."
Ronald M "No state wants to take a sex offender on parole."
Angel G
"I am most grateful to you for showing me what and where my faults were." |
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