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A husband's moving response to terror
By: Pat Date: November 16, 2015, 6:20 pm
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This is one young man's response the terrorists who killed his
wife on Friday night. It is exceptionally moving.
On Friday night you stole away the life of an exceptional being,
the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have
my hatred. I do not know who you are and I don’t want to know,
you are dead souls.
If the God for whom you kill so blindly made us in His image,
each bullet in my wife’s body would have been a wound in His
heart.
Therefore I will not give you the gift of hating you. You have
obviously sought it but responding to hatred with anger would be
to give in to the same ignorance that that has made you what you
are. You want me to be afraid, to cast a mistrustful eye on my
fellow citizens, to sacrifice my freedom for security. Lost.
Same player, same game.
I saw her this morning. Finally, after nights and days of
waiting. She was just as beautiful as she was when she left on
Friday evening, as beautiful as when I fell madly in love with
her more than 12 years ago.
Of course I'm devasted with grief, I will give you that tiny
victory, but this will be a short-term grief. I know that she
will join us every day and that we will find each other again in
a paradise of free souls which you will never have access to.
We are only two, my son and I, but we are more powerful than all
the world's armies. In any case, I have no more time to waste on
you, I need to get back to Melvil who is waking up from his
afternoon nap. He’s just 17 months old; he’ll eat his snack like
every day, and then we’re going to play like we do every day;
and every day of his life this little boy will insult you with
his happiness and freedom. Because you don’t have his hatred
either.
– Antoine Leiris
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Re: A husband's moving response to terror
By: Helen Date: November 16, 2015, 8:24 pm
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Yes, awesome response Pat.
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Re: A husband's moving response to terror
By: Dave Date: November 17, 2015, 11:29 am
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WOW, that's wisdom and grace in action. Lord, open the windows
of heaven and pour out your blessing on this family.
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Re: A husband's moving response to terror
By: James Date: November 17, 2015, 4:17 pm
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Very good testimony!
There is so much strife and hate that I am praying for a new
visitation from God, a new filling with his spirit a fullness of
love since love breaks all yokes.
It seems we can not beat the storm around us so I have been
praying to be the peace within the storm, I am so tired of
bitter words and strife.
I just want to meet the Lord God like some of the OT fathers
did.
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Re: A husband's moving response to terror
By: Helen Date: November 17, 2015, 9:19 pm
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Yes, it was a great testimony wasn't it..such grace in trouble
was a wonderful testimony of God moving in his heart in
'reality'..not just words. His son has a great father. Very
moving.
Sorry to hear that the 'wasps' are still buzzing. I did think,
maybe foolishly, that you would have peace now until after
Christmas. Sorry that I am wrong.
We have the promise in 1 Cor 10. 13."There hath no temptation
taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who
will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but
will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may
be able to bear it."
Obviously God feels that you can bear it and not crumble. As you
say.Your only victory is peace IN the storm.
The " way of escape" is always upward! We can still fly in the
Spirit. The Inward Journey as Gene Edwards calls it..through
the flesh, through the soul and deep into the Spirit. Then like
the wardrobe in Narnia, once in the Spirt, we keep fly inwardly
and upward to realm unknown. We are safe from the storms there.
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Re: A husband's moving response to terror
By: Dave Date: November 19, 2015, 6:17 pm
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I saw the Paris man on our national t.v.station last night, and
they read his letter, very moving and very unusual for that
station.
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