"How do you choose to react?"

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A man walked into an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, PA, took a gun, and before it was over killed 10 precious young girls and then himself. His choice was horrific, unmerited, and evil.

The Amish community there in Nickel Mines also made a choice. They chose not to return evil for evil.
Instead they cast a light into the darkness, expressing in a press release read by a local official that this man had made a bad choice and they forgave him for it. They didn’t blame anyone or anything, just forgave.

Their radical forgiveness doesn’t mean their grief wasn’t severe. It was and I’m sure still is. As the father of two daughters, I can’t begin to imagine how they must feel. But they chose to pass on God’s love they’ve received; forgiven, they chose to forgive. That Amish community knows that darkness only breeds more evil and so they chose to shine the light of God’s pure light.

What will you choose today when someone wrongs you? How will you react to evil? Choose to love and forgive like God as you make a life today.

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