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We can learn from these wonderful people. After suffering a bad event, they are able to get rid of anger and error to find love in their hearts.
Here are 6 true stories about forgiving that inspire our hearts
1. Mutual Forgiving Between Two Different Cultures
May 2014, New York Times photographer Peter Hiogo started a photo-taking project in Rwanda to demonstrate a pardon between Hutus and Tutsis-the two different cultures were involved in the 1994 Rwandan crime genocide that killed millions of lives.
In the photo, members of the two different cultures stand together, they are Francine Mukagasam and Oliver Habyarimana. The photo depicts the story of forgiveness and how the lesson of life to forgive is now completely intertwined.
2. Forgiveness and Giving Punishment Punishment
After working for a long time in the fire department, Matt Swatzell was fast asleep while driving and crashing into another vehicle. The collision killed a mother named June Fitzgerald who was pregnant and injured June 19-month-old daughter.
Ms. June Fitzgerald's husband, a full-time pastor requested leniency to Matt Swatzell, and had a meeting with Matt Swatzell in a coffee shop and had a conversation. A few years later, the two men can still have a conversation. "You are forgiven, because you were first forgiven (by Christ)" said Fitzgerald's husband June Fitzgerald.
3. Mothers Heart Tranquility
The teenager named Jordyn Howe took his grandfather's weapon to school and suddenly shot an Ady Guzman girl named Lourdes, showing the firearm to his friends. Ady Guzman is the mother of the woman who was shot.
Ady Guzman surprised the judge and the public, Ady Guzman not only forgave Jordyn Howe but also asked the judge to get Jordyn a lesser sentence. Ady Guzman believes that his son wants that.
Jordyn Howe gets relief, and will only serve for a year in a juvenile detention center and he will visit a local school with Ady Guzman to warn teens of the dangers of using firearms.
4. Unexpected Relationship
Sandra Walker, a mother who has two children had to lose her husband in a car crash that also caused her to suffer a brain injury.
In the trial of the accident, courtesy Sandra Walker in court to sympathize with the woman who hit them, where the abductor lost a child, Sandra hugged him. "I knew he was going through the pain I was experiencing. I want him to know that I forgive him for what he has done, "said Sandra.
5. The Love of a Police Officer
Steven McDonald is a young police officer. In 1986 when he was shot by a teenager in Central Park in New York City, an incident that caused him to surrender. "I forgive (shooters) because I believe only bad things from receiving bullets in my spine will pile up a grudge in my heart," Steven wrote.
When the shooting teenager was serving a sentence in prison, Steven sent a letter with him, hoping that one day they could both work together to set an example of forgiving and non-violence. Unfortunately, the young man died in a motorcycle accident, three days after he was released, but Steven still travels in his country to deliver a message about forgiving and non-violence.