{"id":5163,"date":"2020-08-12T00:04:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T23:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/?p=5163"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:26:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:26:43","slug":"road-to-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/road-to-somewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to somewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In his time he\u2019s donned military uniform for the Queen and served a prison sentence for theft. Now Paul Cowley\u2019s life has taken a very different path.<\/p>\n

Paul Cowley's CV really is that short: thief, prisoner, soldier, priest. After a difficult childhood, he fell into crime, but in his case, his criminal career was short\u2026<\/p>\n

Q: What made such a difference?<\/p>\n

The army saved my life. If the army hadn\u2019t given me the opportunity of joining up, I think I would have ended up dead or in prison again. The army is an institution and I like institutions: you know where you are with them. They have boundaries, rules, and I needed that in my life. But it couldn\u2019t really prepare me for normal life, so in some ways, (when I left), I was back where I was before, except I was fitter, stronger, more determined and, looking back, quite angry. What I never gained from my military service was a moral code. Morally, I was a nightmare.<\/p>\n

Q: But God intervened\u2026<\/p>\n

My first encounter with the God stuff was ...<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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