A recent article in the National Press, about the amazing way the parents of a murdered man responded to this terrible tragedy stopped me in my tracks.

Instead of decrying his, yet uncaught, murderers, and calling for retribution, they took a completely different stand. They went into print to say that they forgave his killers! Can you imagine it? Could you, just a few days after a gang of muggers brutally murdered your son, speak to the press and say that you forgave them? Thankfully, I have never been in this awful position but I think I would have great difficulty doing the same thing. Forgiveness may be a laudable concept but is it really possible?

Yet what are the alternatives? Hatred, resentment, even revenge! How does that help the person I have lost or me? I once read an article that said, when we don