I pray someday the world will forgive the perpetrators of the world’s worst crime against humanity. Indeed a human being has not right to end the life of another human being. I hope we understand we were ruled by men deranged, born with great measures of hatred, and unusual hunger for power simply because they grew up powerless and remained powerless.
I pray we understand that for those who obeyed and carried out orders to kill, rape, and destroy were as human as the humans they killed, raped, and destroyed.
From Hitler’s crazed mind, to Idi Amin’s psychopathic mind, they were such lost souls, whose followers now suffer the fate of believing in an ideology of hate, and have to live with it. For all of us affected, the blood of the innocent crying out and having to deal with the curses of our forefathers and mad men who thought they had dethroned God.
We only need many more who are self actualized, who have lived up to the Lord’s expectation of Love and are more than willing to show the world what it means to forgive and let go and to let the Light of God shine in them as we press on with the balm of Gilead which heals the souls of the broken.
We have been plagued, cheated, killed and destroyed; war, strife, famine and droughts are the curses of the greed that permeate the souls of the lost who do not believe the Lord can indeed provide and therefore hoard what they leave behind in death. There are the lost that have brought to themselves the wealth of the world, they were powerful figures, and their followers looked up to them as the answers to the woes of this dreaded world. What became of them? Long gone and forgotten and in their last days wondering if it was worth it.
We forgive our perpetrators because we must understand they are fallible, having to live with the nightmares of what they did. However well they rationalize their feelings and justify their behaviors, the fact is, they were unjust in not pursuing justice for the common good of all.
Indeed, those of us who know and partake of the communion of our Father because of the tortured body and blood of our Lord Christ, we acknowledge that through death we are forgiven, and in life, we live for eternity, assured that we are redeemed and our sins paid for.
None of us deserves the full grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and yet how do we go about living in pain and suffering when we can give it up?
I sure hope, I pray surely in humility and grace which we do not deserve, step up.. firmly step up, face our perpetrators, our enemies, the ones who killed our dreams and hopes, the people who placed a barrier on our path and the ones who helped the devil destroy life, I pray we shall forgive them…and let go.
