October 2, 2007, Charles Carl Roberts, a local milk truck driver, entered an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he tied up and shot 10 Amish schoolgirls aged 6 to 14 in their classroom, killing five of them before turning the gun on himself. The Amish, descendants of Swiss-German settlers, eschew many aspects of […]
Tag Archives: forgiveness
When we forgive, we set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner we set free is us. The first person to benefit from forgiving is the one who does it. We do our forgiving alone inside our hearts and minds; what happens to the people we forgive depends on them. We must forgive because […]