Forgiveness

My brothers and I saw a video, today. It showed two brothers fighting. The bigger one smacked the smaller one. Immediately, the little guy started screaming to his mother that he was hit. The mother came in the room and asked what happened? She listened to the sobbing little brother and the mother took his side. The older boy immediately ran upstairs.

The mother telephoned the father and related the story. When Dad came home, the first thing he did was go into the older boy's bedroom. He wasn't there. He went into the other bedroom; he wasn't there, either. Nor, was he in the bathroom. Upon entering the master bedroom, the father saw a big lump in the middle of the bed.

The boy was hiding under the covers.

He was hiding from shame. The gist of the father's talk consisted of "forgiveness." The father assured the son that there was nothing the kid could do that would cause him to not love his son. He would never stop loving him.

Mmmmm. What about when that kid grows into a teen and rapes his girlfriend? What about when he grows up to be a druggie? What if he's a sadist and enjoys torturing children to death?

Far fetched? Whom do you think my brothers are?

Many of them had parents who did stop loving them, or said that they weren't their son anymore, or that they were sorry that they ever gave birth to them, or were told to get out of their lives. I was just wondering what they thought of the video about a kid worrying if his parents stopped loving him because he hit his brother.

You know what? They got the message. They know God loves them.

For some of them, that's the only relationship they can count on.

Thank God for that.