Gangs and grudges
Hoping to teach his gang-involved students a lesson in forgiveness, Los Angeles teacher Paul White learned a lesson all his own . . . .
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Posted on Wednesday, July 4th, 2012 at 4:28 pm | Follow responses with the RSS feedTopics: Friendship, Hate
Thank you Paul. It always amazes me how a negative feeling like hate can be so blinding, making baseless situations seem so real to us.
Thanks Paul. With humility you shared something huge with your class and with us.
I can only imagine how amazed your gang-involved students must have been when you went into class the next day and told them what your neighbor said!
Did your long-overdue radical act make them want to stop holding grudges, too?
How often do our own humble admissions of wrong-doing, our genuine repentance, our sincere striving to reform, our honest and earnest plea for forgiveness … melt hardened hearts that we could not reach otherwise?