Unsettled Weather: How Do I Forgive?
Derksen, Wilma L.
When Wilma and Cliff Derksens' daughter was killed in 1984, they chose the word "forgiveness, " hoping it would somehow spare them the horrors of the aftermath of violence and the ensnaring justice issues. But Wilma confesses: "I soon came to resent anyone who said: 'Just forgive as if it were that easy." Later she joined a support group of other parents of murdered children where it became obvious that forgiveness was considered an "F" word. ...