This morning on NPR, there was an installment of Story Corps, in which a man related this story of his adult daughter's murder and what he and his wife experienced in the aftermath of that. It was an incredibly powerful illustration of the capacity of the human heart to forgive, and the enormous relief that is found in forgiveness.
Black says he couldn't sleep that night "because I really felt as though a tremendous weight had been lifted from me ... and that I had forgiven him."
Imagine being unable to sleep because a weight had been lifted. What a beautiful insomnia that must be - not wanting to miss a moment of that peace by sleeping through it.
I was listening to that story when I pulled up to S's preschool, and did not get to hear the end of it. Powerful, so much so that I thought of it and tried to find it on NPR's site.
Posted by: Amanda | Monday, 18 February 2008 at 05:35 PM