From Hatred to Healing
From Hatred to Healing:
This is not an easy transfer. I know for me, I have a hard time going from hating someone to healing that relationship and trying to live a Chirst like life.
Well, this is a story of a 14 year old boy by the name of Tony Hick and a 20 year old man named Tariq Khamisa.
The story talks about Tony in the beginning being pressured into holding his gun against Tariq and pulling the trigger. Talk about a tough situation. A 14 year old boy, lets start with that. Tony Hick is 14, what is he doing around guns? Why are the children today capable of getting their hands on not just weapons but Drugs and much more. It isn’t hard to get these things. Well, Tony as he was being pressured he finally pulled the trigger.
Now, in an alley was a 20 year old college student lying dead in the front seat of his car.
This story was written by the father of that 20 year old man. The father that had to deal with all the pain of his son being killed. But unlike many fathers or many people in general, the father took a different route then most. He took himself and forced himself to go from “Murder to Forgiveness”. He was making himself available to forgive the man that did this.
Amazing. It is so amazing that a man could do such a thing. It reminds me of our Heavenly Father “God”. God sent his one and only son to this earth for us. We beat him, mocked him, hated him, blamed him. In the end we killed him. But the story doesn’t end there, God “Forgives” us for the sins we had commited, for murdering his son.
This man took time to prepare himself to show the love and forgiveness towards a boy who murdered his son.
We all need to show this kind of love towards eachother. The bible says if someone is to hit us we are not supposed to react back in a harsh way, but to turn our cheek to the otherside. We need to show the Love that the Lord shows for all of us.
We must learn to go “From Hatred To Healing.”
~B~
