Posted AT 4:16 AM EDT on 19/03/08
The amazing grace of forgiveness
VANCOUVER — I'm always amazed, and admittedly often mystified, at the power of some people to forgive.This past week, for instance, the parents of a young Cloverdale, B.C., man who was run over and killed, in what police have characterized as an incident of road rage, announced they had forgiven the yet-to-be-charged person responsible for their son's death.
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