A Great New Story on Forgiveness
Just wanted to share this great story on forgiveness, as there has been alot of controversy on the way the story was reported. The BBC removed all references to God, and in doing so, heavily altered the facts of the story. The comments she made went completely unreported.
In a eulogy at his funeral Mrs Greaves said she had decided to forgive the two men as it was what her husband would have wanted:
“It has to be a daily act of saying ‘I place them in your hands, God’, so that I don’t have to worry about them, I don’t have to hate them. After the massive shock and heartbreak, this was probably the most difficult thing I have ever had to do, to go down the path of forgiving them.
“It has been a wonderful release that I have not had the burden of hatred towards them. I have to do it every day so I don’t lapse. It is not an easy journey to look two men in the face who have killed the person you love most in the world and hang onto that.
“When you are sitting there in court and you see them and you are heartbroken at what they have done to you, they have taken from you the person who is still your soulmate, it is very difficult to sit there and continue to forgive them and want to forgive them.”
“One thing I have comforted myself with is that the God I believe in had a son who was beaten as Alan was beaten. The God I believe in had a son who was resurrected as I believe Alan will be resurrected to be with God.”
Speaking at her Church the Sunday after Alan died she told this story:
“In the midst of our deep grief, I was sitting in the [hospital] waiting room and a lady came in, and it irritated me, because I wanted to be by myself.
“And I suddenly looked at her and thought, ‘she’s grieving like me’. And so I went over to her, and I said ‘what’s wrong?’ And she said ‘My husband’s got a brain tumour’.
“And I said ‘how are you feeling about that?’
“And she said ‘I don’t believe in a God at all that could allow this to happen’.
“And God gave to me a wonderful moment, when I was able to say that ‘I believe in a God because at Christmas time he sent us a saviour and he can be your saviour too through all of the grief you’re going through’.
“Later on she got her results for her husband and it was a benign tumour and she came to me and she hugged me. And she said ‘I’ll leave this place thinking about the fact that there’s a saviour of this world’.
“And for me that was a great joy in the midst of my pain, because Alan only died a few hours later.”
Here is an interesting commentary on the story as it develops:
http://godandpoliticsuk.org/2013/07/1...
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