Love in Action

When Truus Geraets meets Dawud at the
Jackson Prison in Michigan in 1979, he has already served
ten years of his sentence. But the two feel an immediate
connection; they rejoice in the fact that fate has brought
two people of such different backgrounds and circumstances
together-Dawud in a prison in America, having grown up in a
dysfunctional family, and Truus Geraets, born and raised in
the Netherlands in a family guided by spiritual
principles.

In Love in Action, the author speaks
frankly about the reality of waiting for thirty years for a
true soul mate who spends most of those years in prison. She
tells of her personal engagement in his transformational
process from a career criminal into a person who has a
burning desire to give back to society.

Dawud's
letters to Truus present the true essence of what it means
to be an "inmate" and a "number." In addition, Geraets
exposes the disaster of a prison system in America which
incarcerates more people than any other country in the
world. Love in Action demonstrates that true transformation
is possible and communicates hope instead of fear.