Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Forgiveness Video

This video showed the story of a young man, Eric Smallridge, who was arrested and sentenced to 22 years in prison after driving under the influence and crashing into a car that held two, 20 year old girls, and killing them instantly. Both the family and Eric believed that justice had been served at the trial and it was enough time to make him reflect on what he's done as a result for his bad choices. After a while the mother of Megan, Renee, wrote a letter to Eric, who was still in prison and in her handwriting was a forgiveness letter. She sent it to Eric to finally relieve the pressure of having to hate the killer of his daughter and asked the judge to reduce his sentence by nearly half of what it was. Eric too, felt relieved that he would no longer carry the burden of being hated by the family. This story showed the power of forgiveness and how it can resolve a lot of your inside battles. Eric and Renee now give conferences at high schools to show the danger or drunk driving.

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