What follows is an except from my recently published book
Inside the Light - Hope and Transformation.
…Suddenly, I saw my head splattered against the window in
front of me, the stump of my neck protruding from my body.“Was I dead?” I wondered. I certainly felt no pain. I wasn’t
gripped by fear. The peace around me became very steely and the light even
brighter.
My thoughts shifted from myself to the boy behind me. “If
this kid has killed me, that’s okay.
I’m at peace. I’m okay.” I felt no rancor or anger toward him. No bitterness
about dying so young. My feeling was quite the opposite, actually. I felt
something much greater than compassion.
“If he’s pulled the trigger, will killing me heal the pain
that has driven him to this moment? After all, no one who is happy gets up in
the morning and says, ‘I think I’ll kill someone today.’”
With that thought came a crackling in the center of my
brain. I felt a deep connection with the young gunman. Maybe this is what is
meant by “mind-meld”. Whatever had just happened, that young man and I were
fused together mentally into one being.
In the next instant, I could feel the iridescent light
surrounding us grow more intense, and while I couldn’t see the young man, I
knew the light was swaddling him in forgiveness. I could feel his pain and rage
evaporate. I was awestruck by the love in the light as it melted away the anger
that had brought him to this moment…. (265 words)
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