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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nMany have watched the powerful television report of Brandt\nJean’s act of forgiveness toward Amber Guyger who killed his brother Botham\nJean. The scene of him hugging her and extending forgiveness toward her has\nbeen replayed over and again and invoked a sundry of reactions from across the\nnation and the Texas community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The former Dallas police officer Guyger testified that she\nshot her victim by mistake, in his own apartment while he was eating ice cream.\nShe was sentenced to ten years in prison and many thought it would have been\nmuch longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Allison Jean, the mother of the brothers wrote on her\nFacebook page to her son Brandt, “Your load is lighter. Regardless of the\nviews of the spectators, walk with God always. Forgiveness is for the forgiver\nand it doesn’t matter what the forgiven does with it. “<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the Lancaster, PA community in 2006, comes the story of\nten young schoolgirls killed in an Amish one room school. On the\nafternoon of the killing an Amish grandfather expressed forgiveness toward the\nkiller Charles Roberts. That same day Amish neighbors visited the Roberts\nfamily to comfort them. Later that week the Roberts family was invited to the\nfuneral of one of the Amish girls who had been killed. Amish mourners would\nlater outnumber the non-Amish at Charles Roberts’ funeral. The story is told\nthat the killer was tormented for nine years by the premature death of his\nyoung daughter. He never forgave God for her death. Yet, after he\ncold-bloodedly shot ten Amish schoolgirls, their families and friends almost\nimmediately forgave him and showed compassion toward his family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2015, from the historic Charleston, South Carolina\nEmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, comes the story of forgiving\nrelatives. One by one those who chose to speak at his trial did not turn to\nanger. Instead, while the killer Dylann Roof remained impassive, they offered\nhim forgiveness and said they were praying for his soul, even as they described\nthe pain of their losses. “I forgive you,” Nadine Collier, the daughter\nof 70-year-old Ethel Lance, said at the hearing, her voice breaking with\nemotion. “You took something very precious from me. I will never talk to\nher again. I will never, hold her again. But I forgive you. And have mercy on\nyour soul.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don’t know what I would do. I can’t tell you what to do\nbecause I don’t know what has happened to you. It’s between you, whoever\nand God and how you want to live your life. However, if you carry a lifelong\nload of hate, resentment and bitterness, it will wear you down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The words of Jesus remind us from the Bible … “For if\nyou forgive men their trespasses your father in heaven will forgive\nyou.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Think about it. Is there someone you need to forgive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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