Friday, December 13, 2013

Dec 14 Tip: A Newtown Mother And Surviving Son Find Foregiveness After Tragedy

From NPR: A Newtown Mother And Surviving Son Find Foregiveness After Tragedy

(The December 14 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=250802298&sc=17&f=2

Since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School last December, the mother of one young victim says she's managed to achieve something that many would find impossible: forgiveness. Scarlet Lewis describes how she and her older son JT have learned to live with the loss of 7-year-old Jesse in a new book, which is named after a message Jesse scrawled on a family chalkboard before he died:Nurturing Healing Love. The importance of forgiveness was reinforced for the Lewis family by a connection with an unlikely source: orphans of the Rwandan genocide

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