On October 2, 2006, 32-years-old Charles Roberts entered an Amish school with an automatic rifle. He tied up the legs of schoolgirls and prepared to shoot them, execution style. The oldest hostage, a 13-year-old, asked Roberts to “shoot me and release the others.” But he didn’t listen to her. He fired at all of them with 400 rounds of ammunition. That day, he killed five girls – and severely injured many more. When the police stormed into the school building, Charles Roberts shot and killed himself.
Why did he shoot the girls? He told his hostages before shooting, “I’m angry at God for taking my little daughter.” Immediately after the massacre, more than 50 television crews came into that small town. And what they witnessed was unbelievable. And bordered on insanity. The world couldn’t understand what was happening: After the funeral of their murdered daughters, their parents and siblings visited the funeral of the family of their murderer. Why did they go there? They went there to offer words of forgiveness and consolation to his widow and her three children.
As if that wasn’t shocking enough, these families raised money for their murderer’s orphaned family. Insanity! Why did the Amish do this unexplainable thing? Because the Amish are Christians. They follow the Bible when it says, “Love does not keep a record of wrongs.”
Yes, even if that wrong was killing their little daughter. But I believe it’s this kind of insane love that can heal this violent world.
Friend, ask God to give you the same power to forgive today.
Have a Spirit-filled Feast!
May your dreams come true,
Bo Sanchez
PICC Feast Builder
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