Amish Grace Page #7

It's...

(Sighs)

No, it's all right.

But you do not understand.

Our forgiveness isn't about Charlie.

Forgiving...

doesn't mean forgetting.

It doesn't even mean a pardon.

we know that Charlie

will stand before a just God.

But we also know that if we hold on

to our anger and resentment...

then it is only ourselves

who are being punished.

(Judith)

It's true.

Every morning when I wake...

I expect to hear Anna and Lydia singing

together as they do their chores.

But the silence reminds me

that they're gone.

And I become so full of anger...

that I can barely breathe.

But then I offer that anger up to God...

and I forgive.

And sometimes I have to

do it again in an hour...

and again an hour after that.

But if I did not do that...

I don't know how I would

ever breathe again.

I don't care if I ever breathe again.

I don't understand how he could

do that to those girls...

to me, to his children!

I don't know how to forgive!

I don't know...

- We will pray with you.

- Oh, my God!

- We will help you.

- You're not alone.

(Melinda)

None of us is alone.

(Sobbing)

Oh, my God.

What can I do? Do you... Do you want me

to drive you to the city?

- Do you want me to take you home?

- I don't know.

- I don't know.

- Are you all right?

- No.

- (Car Approaching)

Ida, Gideon... you need to come

with me to the hospital.

- Rebecca is asking for you.

- Why would she...

She remembers everything,

and she wants to talk to you.

Look who I brought.

Good to see you, Rebecca.

God must have known how much

we needed you here to send you back to us.

I told them you remember what happened

in the schoolhouse.

Did you want to tell us what happened?

I want to tell you about Mary Beth.

I want to tell you

what she said to the milkman.

Go on. We'd like to know.

After he got his gun...

he was standing over me.

I was so scared.

Mary Ann Fisher...

She said, "Shoot me first".

So he went over to her...

and he said...

"You girls should pray for me".

(Sniffles)

But Sarah said,

"I think you should pray for us".

And Mary Beth said...

"I will. I will pray for you".

(Gasps, Cries)

She said she'd pray for him...

even though she knew

he was gonna shoot us with that gun.

Mary Beth was the bravest one of all.

(Crying)

She was.

She was a good girl. She was...

(Sniffles)

She was the best, bravest girl.

Thank you for telling us that.

Thank you so much.

As soon as you come home,

I'm gonna bring Katie to visit you, okay?

(Sobbing)

Take me home.

I want to go home.

(Bell Tolling)

(Male Reporter) Funeral services

for gunman Charles Carl Roberts...

Not a lot of people.

No. About a dozen, if that.

Poor Amy. I thought she belonged

to a big congregation.

Doesn't look like it today.

(Horse whinnies)

(Laughing)

We're very sorry for your loss.

I don't understand.

Before she died...

my daughter had forgiveness in her heart.

I can do no less.

Thank you.

Thank you.

On this, of all occasions...

we cannot pretend

that evil does not exist.

We cannot pretend that even the most

God-fearing of men...

cannot be swayed by darkness...

to carry out evil acts...

acts that leave

a terrible pain in their wake.

But as our Amish brothers

and sisters have shown us...

when we do not

seek vengeance for our pain...

when we open our hearts

to the healing light of forgiveness...

then the darkness is banished...

and evil is no more.

- Six Months Later

- (Female Reporter) The tragic incident...

that has changed the lives

of so many in Nickel Mines.

The Amish community...

(Exhales)

Ready to get this show on the road?

You go ahead. Pick your spot.

- Ida! Hello.

- Hi.

I was hoping to see you all here today.

- Katie... (Chuckles)

- (Katie Chuckles)

you've grown a foot

since the last time I saw you.

- I know. Dat says he's going to sit on my head.

- Oh. (Chuckles)

Miss Green.

- Katie looks wonderful. Is she doing okay?

- Mmm.

She misses her sister terribly.

We all do. But, yes.

Katie's always been a happy soul,

and always will be, I think.

And you and your husband?

(Sighs) It bothers me to think that

I might have made things difficult for you.

Oh, please, don't think so.

You were a friend to me

in my darkest hour, and...

I'm grateful to have known you.

I'm grateful too.

(Sighs)

Do you think Amy Roberts

will be here today?

I don't know. They said that

she's planning on moving away.

Oh, wait. There she is.

(Ida)

I was wondering if I'd see you here.

I wanted to come.

I needed to see the new school.

It's good you're here.

(Exhales)

Of the five girls who survived

the shooting with serious injuries,

four were well enough to attend

New Hope Amish School the day it opened.

Life changed forever in Nickel Mines.

Life changed forever in Nickel Mines.

Yet faith remained.

Translation:

Yarychenko Vitaly, dima360

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