Examples of Personal Belief

• Martin Luther King was able to forgive those who fire-bombed his house.
• Anthony Walker was murdered in racist attack, and his mother, Gee Walker prayed for strength to forgive - unloading her grudge so she can heal - “it’s not up to me to take revenge” + “we expect to be forgiven, that’s why I must forgive” + “I have to forgive them I cannot hate. Hate is what killed Anthony.”
• Jenny, the daughter of Julie Nicholson, was murdered by a suicide bomb.

  Julie was an ordained priest and quit as she couldn’t forgive - “forgiveness needs a relationship” needs two people.
• Pope John Paul II forgave his assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca ( arrested and sentenced to life in prison) - visited Mehmet for him to pardoned , “pray for my brother… whom I have sincerely forgiven.”