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April 18, 2024
I picked up the newspaper this past weekend at an airport and the top headline read: “Pain, Loss and Hope.” The sub-head read: “’I refuse to harbor anger, ’ says shooting victim who lost her teenage daughter.”
I thought to myself, “Wow, I’m not sure how I could forgive someone if they shot and killed my daughter.”
The forgiving words above are from a mother, who along with her daughter, were shot at close range while shopping on Feb 12 for Valentine’s Day cards at a Utah mall.
Her 15-year-old daughter died as a result of the shooting and the mother remains in the hospital recuperating from her wounds sustained from a gunman who was shot and killed by a SWAT team after he killed five and wounded four in less than seven minutes.
One of the mother’s quotes in the article really hit home for me, and I imagine it did for many other people who put off until tomorrow what we should enjoy today.
Here’s what she said: “Everyone thinks they can put things off, they’ll have more time. Don’t think someday you’ll get there. You might not.”
She’s right and what a difference she and her daughter have made, and will continue to make, in other people’s lives. “She’d want us to be happy, to use this experience to help other people, ” said the mother of her daughter.
They are making a difference. People as far away as New Zealand and France have been touched by what happened and have written letters.
One message that is displayed in the mother’s hospital room reads: “You made a difference for the good of the world.”
It’s a very powerful lesson in forgiveness. I can’t imagine losing one of our children as this mother lost her daughter, and to forgive as she has is quite amazing.
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Ron Goch, The Telios Group
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