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The parents are better people than I know I am.
Got drunk with a church music group ? Times are a changing…
Maybe or maybe not, it depends. On another note glad they made peace and found a way to move on and forgive, not our place to judge the person as a whole.
Everyone reacts to shock and grief in their own way. I would not be so forgiving. Any couple who would do that, I would judge them to still be in a state of shock. I would speculate these two are blocking how they really feel about the event, so they overcompensate trying to convince themselves that they are “doing what’s right”.
The young motorist better sleep with one eye open, because eventually the parents Mask of Righteousness is likely to fall off, revealing the volcano of their unresolved rage.
He is a fool to move in with them.
The parents are better people than I know I am.
“Nick, 25, was speeding down a dual-carriageway in south west London at more than double the limit when he veered across two lanes, hit the central reservation and flew off towards a verge. “
hmmm...
My sister was out with her boyfriend. They were at a bar and his friends were ragging on him for not drinking, enough that he got upset and left. My sister didn't think he was coming back and she was going to ride home with someone else but he was waiting outside when they walked out of the bar, so she got in the car with him. It was one of those Datsun 280-Zs with the T-top. It was raining and he was still upset and driving too fast for the conditions. She kept asking him to slow down but he ignored her. He lost control on a curve and flipped the car, popping the glass out of the T-top with the force of the impact. My sister got thrown out and landed in grass, so badly injured they gave her last rites. Her boyfriend landed on pavement, slid across the street and went face first into the curb, killing him.
A couple of her friends and myself told her while she was convalescing that if it had been the opposite I would have finished the job myself. Each time she heard that she got very upset, claiming that he loved her and never meant to hurt her. So I guess the parents of the girl killed in this accident were of the same frame of mind.
No. You lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas. A young Chinese couple in town started a restaurant, and were readily accepted by the local community. They made the mistake of hiring two illegals to work in the restaurant, and allowed them to stay in a spare bedroom. The illegals repaid this act of kindness by raping and killing their 4-year-old son. It was one of four murders that happened in my town in 35 years. Oh yeah, they got caught.
S.S.S.
Older FReepers will know what that is.
No. Homicide is not a forgivable act.
There’s forgiving and then there’s letting him move in. 😣
Stupid.
Wonderful couple who did something to make the world a better place, despite the pain and trauma of being innocent victims.
It is funny how frequently we say this, “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us...,” and then fail to follow up when the rubber meets the road. This couple did what God requires, they forgave and benefitted from it.
I don’t know if I could forgive as they did. The young man was not evil or criminal, just young and stupid. Young men do a lot of stupid things on the way to attaining wisdom, if they survive the stupid things.
Kudos to the couple for forgiveness. God Bless.
Elizabeth recalled Nick entering their living room and approaching Fernando, adding: ‘Nick hugged him and said, “please forgive me”. In tears they both collapsed to the ground, all the while Nick repeating his request over and over and Fernando saying, “I forgive you son”.’
1) We don’t know what we would do until it happens.
2) In this case, there appears to be repentance and forgiveness. It is completed.
3) In many stories, we see the parents “forgiving” a murderer in prison and there has been no repentance. In that case I don’t think it is forgiveness, it is something else. But for sure, it is not complete.