This is an incredibly powerful story of a man returning a photo to the daughter of the man he shot during the war. I can’t imagine the horrors of the war in which all of these people were involved. I don’t know the man’s whole story. Certainly in war, killing is part of what happens.
And yet this story speaks of how painful that is. This story speaks to us to think of “enemy” in a different light. This story I think reminds us that we want no enemies and we want no wars. That doesn’t mean these things will happen in our sin broken world, but it does remind us to look at things through a different set of eyes.
And most importantly of all, it begs the questions. Who do you need to forgive? Who do you need to ask forgiveness of? All is possible through Christ who gives us the ultimate forgiveness.
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