forgiveness

A young man recently sat for about an hour amongst a group of people who had gathered in a church for Bible study--before he then pulled out a gun and murdered nine of those peaceful souls.

The very next day family members of the slain came forward, one by one, and publicly "forgave" the murderer. Funny thing is, the gunman didn't ask anyone to forgive him.  He did allow, though, that they all seemed like "really nice people".