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Daily Gratitude Newsletter
Volume 3, Issue 6 - August 2007
Putting Gratitude To Work For You
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Seventy Times Seven

I'd like to tell you a story about the two issues that I get the most mail about. It seems that a lot of people have trouble with the ideas that good can come out of bad, and that to live a healthy life, forgiveness is not just a good idea, but mandatory!

We know in the Christian tradition that Jesus said we are to forgive, not seven times, but "seventy times seven" essentially meaning as many times as we need to. Other spiritual traditions have similar teachings, but it's tough to actually do this, isn't it? So pay attention to this story.

In 1995 in San Diego, California, a college student was delivering pizza one night when he encountered two young gang members. One of them, as part of his gang initiation, shot and killed the student. The student was 20 years old and an only child. The shooter was 14.

The student's father, Azim Khamisa, a San Diego businessman, was devastated by this senseless tragedy, but he chose to see something that most people in that situation would not. He saw that not one, but two families, had lost a son that night.

He says, "From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of my life. Now, however, my grief has been transformed into a powerful commitment to change. Change is urgently needed in a society where children kill children."

Khamisa founded the Tariq Khamisa Foundation (TKF), named after his son, to bring something positive out of the tragedy. He even reached out to the killer's family and contacted the boy's grandfather, his guardian, and invited him to join in finding a way to stop children from killing children!

Could you be strong enough to do that if it was your child? Do you see why Gandhi says that forgiveness is an attribute of the strong?

The result of this forgiveness is a powerful nationwide organization working to end youth violence. Together Azim Khamisa and Pies Felix, the grandfather, have spoken to tens of thousands of school children through TKF's Violence Impact Forum (VIF) program about the power of forgiveness to break the cycle of violence.

Last issue I shared with you that "intention facilitates perception", that we can't find the good until we look for it. In a tragedy like Khamisa faced, it was impossible to find the good without forgiveness. Forgiveness is the door we have to open to allow the good in the experience to come forth. Without it we remain trapped in victimhood.

It's been said that, “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” When we're set free, then we can move back into gratitude as we see good come from tragedy or injury.

You can read more about the work of TKF on their web site TKF.org. When I see all that they are doing it reminds me of Margaret Mead's famous quote, "Never doubt the ability of a small group of committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Seventy times seven. Change the world.

Go for it,
Wes

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