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themselves.
People with a disease for which there is no known cure.
People required to register with the local authorities.
People whose families shun them.
People whose presence in a community generates fear and
loathing.
People who are outcast in our society.
How can we compare Glenns clients to people with leprosy?
Is it a fair comparison?
No, not entirely.
Glenns clients were often criminals, law breakers, a danger
to society.
Glenn would be the first to assure us his clients were
dangerous.
They may not have a contagious disease,
but they are dangerous people.
They are also, however, like lepers in Jesus time,
they are outcasts in our society.
And it was Glenn, our Glenn,
who chose to treat those abhorred members of society.
Glenn would also be the first to tell us,
the possibility of healing for offenders is remote.
But it was Glenn who counseled, advised, and monitored
offenders.
How could he do this work?!
Why on earth would he want to work with those people?
I asked myself that question.
It took awhile, but as I got to know and love Glenn,
I began to understand.
His work allowed him to support and protect and care for
thousands and thousands of victims of offenders,
victims among the most vulnerable people in our society,
most often women and children.
It was Glenns intervention in the lives of victims of offenders
that drove him to work with clients rejected by most other
professionals.