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# "Let Me Stand" - Doctors Without Boredom
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/matthewloftus-2018-07-12-let-me-stand/
- Published: 2018-07-12T06:18:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-22T16:47:05.000Z
- Description: This is a tremendous essay on one victim of the opioid crisis, as narrated by her brother: Several years ago, I felt convicted to ask Tricia for forgiveness. She was in jail at the time. By appearances, I was a […]
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Matthew Loftus, Family, Health & Medicine

[This is a tremendous essay](https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/reconciliation/let-me-stand?ref=mereorthodoxy.com) on one victim of the opioid crisis, as narrated by her brother:

> Several years ago, I felt convicted to ask Tricia for forgiveness. She was in jail at the time. By appearances, I was a successful brother – a pastor – generously leaving his loving family to visit his failure sister – a felon – languishing again behind bars. In reality, our positions were reversed. She held all of the power, and I was afraid. I had no idea how she might respond. I knew she couldn’t run away – she was in jail, after all – but we had never really talked on a deep level about anything, much less about how we had hurt each other. I didn’t know how she thought of these things, or if she ever did.