Prayer is not a tool for doing or getting, but for being and becoming. You are superior to those negative thoughts swirling around in your very able brain. You make the rules, now enforce them. May you be blessed to change old patterns and replace them with new and positive ones. It starts in your head and continues with your faith-filled actions. Five years after Sandy Hook shooting, how one mother learned to forgive.
In the aftermath of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary that took her six-year old daughter Emilie, Alissa Parker thought about the gunman as a monster, when
she could bring herself to think of him at all.
In a new book, Parker writes about how, five years later, she has come to forgive Adam Lanza, the 20-year old man who shot his mother then killed 20 children and six adults at the school before shooting himself. She describes how that process of forgiving has helped her heal and brought her closer to Emilie...READ MORE copy and paste to share this article link: http://wapo.st/2ppjWOQ |
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