You stated in an earlier post that you believed we should move on to forgiveness and that some may find that hard to understand. Thank you. I do understand and most heartily agree. But I do think we should keep in mind two things about that: one, forgiving others is essential, as you pointed out, for the health of our own souls. Hate destroys the soul and our God calls us to something much higher and much greater. He calls us to love one another, especially our enemies. That brings me to the second thing. What does it mean to love another? More than anything, it means seeking their end in heaven. It means recognizing that just as we love our children, all our children, so too does God love all His and seek their love for Him. Gannon's earthly life has ended, his earthly body, has died. But his soul lives on and on the last day, he will have a new body, one that will live for all Eternity and which no one could ever harm even in the slightest. He is in God's loving arms. But though Tee's earthly life continues, her soul has died. She rejected God when she chose freely to kill an innocent life. In choosing to reject God's law, she chose Hell, which is exactly where she is, right now, in her body fused to a dead soul. But our God loves us and seeks us to love Him in return. We are given life on earth to repent, to seek His forgiveness. We can all forgive her and that is good for us. It will heal our souls. But it will not heal hers. To love another is to seek their end with God, the end He desires but which we can have only by freely choosing it. So what we are called to do is to pray for her to be given the grace to see clearly what she has done. Right now, with a dead soul, she is, as God put it so bluntly, blind. The best way to heal ourselves, the best way to demonstrate true forgiveness, is to pray for her to be able to see, for only by His grace will she be able to truly see what she's done, and only that will cause her to be humbled and to repent. Dead souls feel nothing. But souls given sight, they do feel. And can you imagine the horror, the profound horror, she will feel when she is able to truly see what she has done?
