Lessons in Buggies
We have been watching first with disbelief and then sorrow at the story coming from the Amish community in Pennsylvania. A story of deep illness that reaches out and touches children with death and infects a quiet community with grief beyond our imagination. How would we feel? How would we react? At what point do we set aside the words of Jesus and at what point do we set aside our own anger and hurt?
Then we have watched as a community of believing people do the unimaginable. They hold onto their hurt, but allow their anger to be transformed into forgiveness and compassion. Whatever we think about the backwardness of the Amish culture, here we see them being examples to all of us who call our selves Christian. They have embraced the family of the man who brought this pain into their core. And I even read today that they attended his funeral.
That is all I want to say at the moment. What I really want to do it point you to an excellent blog post that says it so much better. Go ahead, click and read; pray and live.
Ben Witherington: Lessons from the Amish– the Power of Pacifism
