tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post8156518481216912155..comments2024-03-26T10:03:51.827+13:00Comments on Karl du Fresne: Some things are beyond forgivenessKarl du Fresnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054853925940134404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-50419934236564089872015-06-02T14:53:15.751+12:002015-06-02T14:53:15.751+12:00I wonder how Corrie Ten Boom might have felt if sh...I wonder how Corrie Ten Boom might have felt if she'd come across Reinhard Heydrich instead of some relatively benign guard? Because that was Adams' position, a prime instigator of murder, rather than a bystander. I have the utmost admiration for Price Charles. I could not do what he did. And as for those Americans who funded the IRA - well, the chickens came home to roost. As soon as they experienced terrorism on their own soil they realised that NORAID was no better than Isis. Max Ritchiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09700377308425417842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-39944525464691071132015-06-01T16:55:58.253+12:002015-06-01T16:55:58.253+12:00Karl
If you will allow me, I would like to post a...Karl<br /><br />If you will allow me, I would like to post a response to your statement "some things are beyond forgiveness" from a Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor, Corrie Ten Boom. May it touch your heart as it did mine when I first read it, and again even now as I post it to you almost 40 years years later.<br /><br />Corrie Ten Boom Story on Forgiving<br /><br />“It was in a church in Munich that I saw him—a balding, heavyset man in a gray overcoat, a brown felt hat clutched between his hands. People were filing out of the basement room where I had just spoken, moving along the rows of wooden chairs to the door at the rear. It was 1947 and I had come from Holland to defeated Germany with the message that God forgives.<br /><br />“It was the truth they needed most to hear in that bitter, bombed-out land, and I gave them my favorite mental picture. Maybe because the sea is never far from a Hollander’s mind, I liked to think that that’s where forgiven sins were thrown. ‘When we confess our sins,’ I said, ‘God casts them into the deepest ocean, gone forever. …’<br /><br />“The solemn faces stared back at me, not quite daring to believe. There were never questions after a talk in Germany in 1947. People stood up in silence, in silence collected their wraps, in silence left the room.<br /><br />“And that’s when I saw him, working his way forward against the others. One moment I saw the overcoat and the brown hat; the next, a blue uniform and a visored cap with its skull and crossbones. It came back with a rush: the huge room with its harsh overhead lights; the pathetic pile of dresses and shoes in the center of the floor; the shame of walking naked past this man. I could see my sister’s frail form ahead of me, ribs sharp beneath the parchment skin. Betsie, how thin you were! [Betsie and I had been arrested for concealing Jews in our home during the Nazi occupation of Holland; this man had been a guard at Ravensbruck concentration camp where we were sent.]<br /><br />“Now he was in front of me, hand thrust out: ‘A fine message, Fräulein! How good it is to know that, as you say, all our sins are at the bottom of the sea!’ “And I, who had spoken so glibly of forgiveness, fumbled in my pocketbook rather than take that hand. He would not remember me, of course—how could he remember one prisoner among those thousands of women?<br /><br />“But I remembered him and the leather crop swinging from his belt. I was face-to-face with one of my captors and my blood seemed to freeze.<br /><br />“You mentioned Ravensbruck in your talk,’ he was saying, ‘I was a guard there.’ No, he did not remember me.<br /><br />“But since that time,’ he went on, ‘I have become a Christian. I know that God has forgiven me for the cruel things I did there, but I would like to hear it from your lips as well. Fräulein,’ again the hand came out—’will you forgive me?’<br /><br />You can discover the ending to this actual encounter here:<br /><br />http://www.familylifeeducation.org/gilliland/procgroup/CorrieTenBoom.htmBrendan McNeillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02741263914308842497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-25911539955490005252015-06-01T10:13:39.638+12:002015-06-01T10:13:39.638+12:00"Some things are beyond forgiveness "
It..."Some things are beyond forgiveness "<br />It is statements like that that lead to to terrorism <br />Someone, possible both sides, has to forgive, despite the awful pastRayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09151948055232655178noreply@blogger.com