The healing power of forgiveness
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- When my heart was touched with love and compassion, I no longer pictured the violent murder of my grandmother. I pictured how she lived and what a beautiful person she was.
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How forgiveness changed the way I approached the murder of my grandmother.
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Forgiveness has many powers, I mean,
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The one that really touched
me the most the night
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that I was touched with it was
the healing power of forgiveness.
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Because for a year and a half
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whenever I thought about Nana,
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I envisioned her butchered
on the dining room floor
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the dining room where our family
went every year for Christmas,
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thanksgiving, Easter.
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And to try to think about her,
it just was very very painful.
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autopsy and it was
brought out in court
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that not only was she stabbed 33
times with a twelve inch butcher knife
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but they had a section of the
carpet that was underneath her body
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in the courtroom that day and showed
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how that carpet had been
shredded by the knife.
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But when my heart was touched
with that love and compassion,
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I knew I'd no longer picture Nana
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butchered on the dining room,
but I'd picture her
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how she lived, what she stood for,
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what she believed in, just
a beautiful wonderful person she was.
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And it was just something
very special for me.
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Forgiveness has many powers, I mean, The one that really touched me the most the night that I was touched with it was the healing power of forgiveness. Because for a year and a half whenever I thought about Nana, I envisioned her butchered on the dining room floor the dining room where our family went every year for Christmas, thanksgiving, Easter. And to try to think about her, it just was very very painful. autopsy and it was brought out in court that not only was she stabbed 33 times with a twelve inch butcher knife but they had a section of the carpet that was underneath her body in the courtroom that day and showed how that carpet had been shredded by the knife. But when my heart was touched with that love and compassion, I knew I'd no longer picture Nana butchered on the dining room, but I'd picture her how she lived, what she stood for, what she believed in, just a beautiful wonderful person she was. And it was just something very special for me.