Forgive? How?
Some acts of violence are simply beyond the pale. They are not to be forgiven, nor forgotten. Their commission represents the ultimate in human degradation. It is folly to imagine that a generous heart can forgive anything. That it ennobles those who forgive, brings them closer to God. And that in forgiving one has done something positive for the very one who is guilty of bringing death to a human soul, one has surmounted passion and embraced godliness.
In Winnipeg, a man who grieves the death of his 26-year-old son, shot randomly as he stood in front of his own home, by a rifle blast to the chest, has found it in himself to wish well for the future of the 17-year-old murderer. "Forgiveness is the only way to deal with this senseless act of murder. I forgive you ... I pray that some day this boy will become a positive member of society", stated Sam McGillivary, facing his son's killer.
Mr. McGillivary is convinced that the youth who murdered his son needs help, and has a worthwhile future before him, if he can find it in himself to somehow be converted to a state of human decency where the life and/or death of another human being is just as important to him as that of his own life. "I'm not only here for justice. I'm also here to share my pain through forgiveness. I hope some good can come out of this senseless crime", said the grieving father.
The young man who took Scott McGillivary's life, stood by and listened to the father of his victim as they both appeared in a Winnipeg courtroom. "It seems like he has hope for me", the teenager remarked to the court. Seems that way. The man appears to have struggled with his inner marrow to come to the conclusion that if he forgave his son's murderer, the path might be paved for Fortune to make a decent human being of the killer.
There is absolutely nothing more gravely dire, more negligent of decency than to deliberately take the life of a human being. We are all given free will to do as we must in living our lives; for most people harming others is not an option as we make our way through the years of our lives, irrespective of the stage we're at, regardless of our age at the time we make critical decisions. To cite an unfortunate background lacking values is to accept the unacceptable.
There are many who may believe implicitly that someone who can find it in themselves to 'forgive' the act that has taken the most precious gift that life will ever give them away and make of it a huge, black void, represents someone who lives on a high moral plane. And there are others who may shrug it off as a pathetic personal conceit. Truth is, from the moment of birth forward, there is a consciousness of the polarities of right and wrong.
In Winnipeg, a man who grieves the death of his 26-year-old son, shot randomly as he stood in front of his own home, by a rifle blast to the chest, has found it in himself to wish well for the future of the 17-year-old murderer. "Forgiveness is the only way to deal with this senseless act of murder. I forgive you ... I pray that some day this boy will become a positive member of society", stated Sam McGillivary, facing his son's killer.
Mr. McGillivary is convinced that the youth who murdered his son needs help, and has a worthwhile future before him, if he can find it in himself to somehow be converted to a state of human decency where the life and/or death of another human being is just as important to him as that of his own life. "I'm not only here for justice. I'm also here to share my pain through forgiveness. I hope some good can come out of this senseless crime", said the grieving father.
The young man who took Scott McGillivary's life, stood by and listened to the father of his victim as they both appeared in a Winnipeg courtroom. "It seems like he has hope for me", the teenager remarked to the court. Seems that way. The man appears to have struggled with his inner marrow to come to the conclusion that if he forgave his son's murderer, the path might be paved for Fortune to make a decent human being of the killer.
There is absolutely nothing more gravely dire, more negligent of decency than to deliberately take the life of a human being. We are all given free will to do as we must in living our lives; for most people harming others is not an option as we make our way through the years of our lives, irrespective of the stage we're at, regardless of our age at the time we make critical decisions. To cite an unfortunate background lacking values is to accept the unacceptable.
There are many who may believe implicitly that someone who can find it in themselves to 'forgive' the act that has taken the most precious gift that life will ever give them away and make of it a huge, black void, represents someone who lives on a high moral plane. And there are others who may shrug it off as a pathetic personal conceit. Truth is, from the moment of birth forward, there is a consciousness of the polarities of right and wrong.
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