Amish response to schoolhouse shootings teaches us all a lesson in faith and healing…We’ve all tried to imagine how it must feel. How would we have responded if it were our daughters, our nieces, our granddaughters who’d been shot, execution style, in the brutal shooting at the West Nickel Mines School in Bart Township last week. Could we possibly forgive their murderer, Charles Carl Roberts IV? Could we attend his funeral and declare that all funds raised to defray the cost of his horrible crime be shared with his widow and children? Could we find love in our heart for a man responsible for so much tragedy and sorrow in our lives. Could we live by our faith the way the Amish community has?…”Forgiving is a serious business because it is basically for our own spiritual, emotional and physical benefit. We may or may not establish a new relationship with the person who injured us; that is not the heart of forgiveness. When we forgive, we finally stop hurting ourselves, hand the whole matter over to God, and believe what he says: Vengeance is mine. I will repay, says the Lord.”