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Forgiveness Next DoorIt would be easy — expected, even — for Mary Johnson and Oshea Israel to be enemies. After all, he killed Johnson's only son, in 1993. He went to prison for that — and toward the end of his sentence, he and Johnson made peace. listen to the story...
Mary Johnson founded From Death to Life, an organization that supports mothers who have lost children to homicide, and encourages forgiveness between families of murderers and victims. |
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Loyally Looking for The master's return
2 Peter 3:11-12
So think of the kind of holy and godly lives you must live 12 as you look forward to the day of God and eagerly wait for it to come. When that day comes, heaven will be on fire and will be destroyed. GWT
So think of the kind of holy and godly lives you must live 12 as you look forward to the day of God and eagerly wait for it to come. When that day comes, heaven will be on fire and will be destroyed. GWT
HachikoA statue of a famous Akita stands in front of the JR train station in Harajuku Japan (Tokyo district). The bronze statue is well known and is often used as a meeting place for the many young people who frequent this area, "See you at Hachiko on Saturday at noon". Hachiko is more than a statue or a tale, he was a real dog who's story is known throughout Japan and the world today. The word Hachiko has come to be synonymous with loyalty, and for good reason. The story has a few variations depending on who tells it but the basic facts are well documented. |
Hachiko was born in 1923 in the city of Odate Japan in the Akita prefecture. He came to Tokyo with his owner, a professor of agriculture at the University of Tokyo named Eisaburo Ueno. Each morning his master would set out for the local train station called the Shibuya Station. Hachiko made a habit of waiting for his master's return each day at the station where the two would meet and journey home together.
In 1925 professor Ueno died from a stroke while at the university and never returned home. After his death his wife sold their home as she prepared to move. She gave the dog to some friends nearby who agreed to care for Hachiko but it would not last. Hachiko soon departed his new home and returned to the station and the old home where he continued to follow the routine and await his master's return. Hachiko's presence at the station was tolerated as passersby would pet him and bring him things to eat. Word of the dog began to spread. In 1928 a new stationmaster was placed in charge. He took a liking to Hachiko allowing him inside and even placing a bed for him. Written articles were published about the dog by another professor at the university who came to learn of his story. The papers he published brought the dog fame as all across Japan Hachiko became known not just as the loyal dog, but as a symbol of loyalty. His fame inspired the hiring of an artist who created a bronze statue in 1934. Just one year later in 1935 Hachiko died at the age of 12. |
Chuck Norris About Faith in God/EthicsChuck and Gena Norris
about trying to fill the void with things other than Faith in God. |
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John ElefANTEArtist: John Elefante Album: Defying Gravity (1999)
Song: Pass The Flame. ... ALTHOUGH WRITTEN AND RECORDED BACK IN 1999, THIS SONG CARRIES A TIMELY AND TIMELESS MESSAGE OF PASSING THE FLAME. WE ARE TO MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS- INCLUDING OUR OWN HOME. WE ARE NOT OUR OWN, WE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE. LET'S PASS THE FLAME!! |
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Rwandan Tutsi ForgivesPrayer helped Immaculee Ilibaguza, a Tutsi and Rwandan genocide survivor, realize hate was not in her heart. She talks about her miraculous story of survival.
Matt 5:44-45 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: His grace is here to helps us be the children of our Father which is in heaven. ******************************************** |
As We ForgiveCould you forgive a person who murdered your family?
This is the question faced by the subjects of As We Forgive, a documentary about Rosaria and Chantal—two Rwandan women coming face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. The subjects of As We Forgive speak for a nation still wracked by the grief of a genocide that killed one in eight Rwandans in 1994. Overwhelmed by an enormous backlog of court cases, the government has returned over 50,000 thousand genocide perpetrators back to the very communities they helped to destroy. Without the hope of full justice, Rwanda has turned to a new solution: Reconciliation. ************************************************ |
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Can We Forgive
Before It's Too Late? Eph 5:15-16 Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people), Making the very most of the time [buying up each opportunity], because the days are evil. AMP *********************************************************** |
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Greatest Day In History Video
http://vimeo.com/10678361
I saw this video on line, so I thought I'd share it with you. Isn't it crazy how many things we think are great? Many things are great, when they are compared to themselves. Sports with sports. Speeches with speeches. Songs with songs. Nothing, however, is as great as the day Our Father raised Jesus from the dead!
Our Great God used the Exceeding Greatness of His Power God to raise Jesus from the dead and then pointed that power towards us and raised us up together with Christ to sit with him in heavenly places!!! "
Some people can't move to get off the couch, but God, using this exceeding greatness of His power not only got us off the couch of sin and death, but raised us up together with Jesus! (Eph. 2:4-6) This exceeding greatness of his power is working on our behalf not only for our eternal salvation in heaven, but it is operating right now, this day, this hour in this very present moment. Come On Now!!!
I exhort you to read Ephesians 1:16-21 Read it slowly and deliberately. Be careful-because you will be a transformed, devil-chasing, Jesus-loving, super-sanctified, Holy Ghost, tongue-talking, love-walking promise-believing chid of faith, hope and love!!! That is what the exceeding greatness of His power will do toward you... Let it happen! So be it...
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I saw this video on line, so I thought I'd share it with you. Isn't it crazy how many things we think are great? Many things are great, when they are compared to themselves. Sports with sports. Speeches with speeches. Songs with songs. Nothing, however, is as great as the day Our Father raised Jesus from the dead!
Our Great God used the Exceeding Greatness of His Power God to raise Jesus from the dead and then pointed that power towards us and raised us up together with Christ to sit with him in heavenly places!!! "
Some people can't move to get off the couch, but God, using this exceeding greatness of His power not only got us off the couch of sin and death, but raised us up together with Jesus! (Eph. 2:4-6) This exceeding greatness of his power is working on our behalf not only for our eternal salvation in heaven, but it is operating right now, this day, this hour in this very present moment. Come On Now!!!
I exhort you to read Ephesians 1:16-21 Read it slowly and deliberately. Be careful-because you will be a transformed, devil-chasing, Jesus-loving, super-sanctified, Holy Ghost, tongue-talking, love-walking promise-believing chid of faith, hope and love!!! That is what the exceeding greatness of His power will do toward you... Let it happen! So be it...
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The Real Greatest Day
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...our brother's keeper!
Dog in Japan stays by the side of
ailing friend in the rubble...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J3TM9GL2iLI
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ailing friend in the rubble...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J3TM9GL2iLI
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Justice or Forgiveness
When "Justice" is not enough...
It takes more than civil justice to cleans the heart and soul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nH3gFXQVPI&feature=player_detailpage
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It takes more than civil justice to cleans the heart and soul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nH3gFXQVPI&feature=player_detailpage
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When It's Hard To Forgive
Peter Read, the father of Virginia Tech shooting victim Mary Karen Read, said he never intended to give a eulogy at her funeral Mass today at St. Mary's of Sorrows Church in Fairfax.
But the retired Air Force lieutenant colonel climbed to the lectern at the end of the hour-long service to read from one of his daughter's notebooks. He had found it only this morning. It was a little red, bound diary where the former Annandale High School student had written some of her favorite quotes on forgiveness.
" When a deep injury is done us, we will never recover until we forgive," he read from the notebook, an entry his daughter had penned in February.
"That was Mary's message," Peter Read said. "I just wanted to share it with all of you."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38pLMc1t95g&feature=player_detailpage
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But the retired Air Force lieutenant colonel climbed to the lectern at the end of the hour-long service to read from one of his daughter's notebooks. He had found it only this morning. It was a little red, bound diary where the former Annandale High School student had written some of her favorite quotes on forgiveness.
" When a deep injury is done us, we will never recover until we forgive," he read from the notebook, an entry his daughter had penned in February.
"That was Mary's message," Peter Read said. "I just wanted to share it with all of you."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38pLMc1t95g&feature=player_detailpage
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Kyle's Coutroom Statement
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/130746/a_lesson_in_forgiveness/
This little girl was the victim of a stray bullet when she was three and her spine severed. She's confined to a wheel chair for the rest of here life. Her statement in court may surprise you. In an incredible act of bravery and grace this little girl forgives the guy who shot her in a compelling statement that shocked everyone in the court room.
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This little girl was the victim of a stray bullet when she was three and her spine severed. She's confined to a wheel chair for the rest of here life. Her statement in court may surprise you. In an incredible act of bravery and grace this little girl forgives the guy who shot her in a compelling statement that shocked everyone in the court room.
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High School Teammates Carry OnStaring down at the sheets of his bed, the morphine starting to fade, Leroy Sutton was still numb, but he had a feeling something was wrong.
It was when I tried to sit up," Leroy said, remembering that day nearly eight years ago. "I pulled the covers up, and that's when I figured everything out." It was Dec. 7, 2001, the day that shaped Leroy's body, and his life. He was 11 years old at the time, walking to school with his brother along the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad tracks near his home in East Akron, Ohio. A freight train approached, and Leroy got too close. His backpack got caught on one of the passing cars, and he was pulled beneath the wheels. "I didn't even look down," said Leroy, now 19, recalling the first moments afterward. "I was just staring at the sun the whole time. I wasn't trying to look down because that's when I would have panicked." (see video for full story) http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=4371874 ****************************************************************************************************************************** |
Amish School Tragedy and ForgivenessForgiveness is the greatest need of mankind. Matt 6:12-13
12 Forgive us for our sins, just as we have forgiven those who sinned against us. 13 And do not cause us to be tempted, but save us from the Evil One.' NCV http://gurmeetsingh.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/stories-of-forgiveness/ |