I Only See an Angel...

When you see this face, does it say "mass murderer" to you? 

For most, it really doesn't. At least not for many. There is a group of  people are saying that he's innocent, that there is no way someone like him could have done something like this. People are going as far as saying that the government staged the entire Boston Marathon bombing. 

But, a small part of me just wants to believe that is true. When I look at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's face, I just don't think of someone who would kill multiple people, including an 8 year-old boy, who's family is in my deepest prayers. When I hear about how his friends and mentors describe him, it just adds to the picture of innocence that he holds in my mind right now. To me, he looks like a young child, who, at his worst, had bad influences above him, possessing him to do something that he never actually wanted to do. To me, his innocence is what I see when I look at him. I see an angel, who was brought off the path by someone on the wrong side. When I hear about how he would work hard at his wrestling, mentor people, help people, I see an angel. He's one of my angels that made a mistake, a mistake that was too large to take back. 

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev certainly has made mistakes, but haven't we all? The Bible says that all sins are viewed under God just the same. There is no sin that is greater than another. So why not have passion for a fellow brother who made a bad decision and was scared and confused as to how to get out of the trouble he was in. He's young and vulnerable and that led him into this situation. He has witnessed horrors which never cross the worst nightmares of the majority of Americans.. He's faced things that we will never have the misfortune of facing. He was not upset with America, according to some of his friends. He fit in and he seemed to be a normal American teenager. He's not someone who hated America and wanted to do his best to bring it down.  He's an angel. Yet he's an angel who has made mistakes. And innocent people have unfortunately bad to pay for his mistakes. 

The purpose of this blog was never to push hidden agendas or provide political commentary. It was simply to teach people how to be angels. But this feeling that I get when I look at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, I see an angel and I just can't describe why. I know most wouldn't share this opinion, and I'm not asking you to. But haven't we all made mistakes? Unfortunately, his mistakes hurt many people in ways which will never allow them to foully heal. Yet, he's an angel. That's what I see when I look at him. An angel., just like I am trying to be.