Showing posts with label innocence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label innocence. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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. 

Friday, April 19, 2013

Innocent Until Proven Guilty

Everyone is innocent until they are proven guilty
It's something that we've all heard. Perhaps we've heard it a bit too much? Perhaps the true meaning of this statement has been lost on us because we don't truly consider it. Everyone deserves a chance. This case in Boston proves just that. My heart goes out to all of the victims that were affected by this, but all of us must remember to be angels as well.

Though people know what is happening and there are reports of all the terrible crimes that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has committed., we must all remember that he is a person and all are innocent until proven guilty. We must give him that because he should be able to tell his story and let us about what happened from his own perspective.

It is difficult to separate emotions from our duty as angels. After all, when we learn of all the victims of this tragedy, those that are in the hospital suffering from life shattering injuries and those that were not able to live. It is hard to think about them and not feel anger towards the person that is said to have done this. Yet, we must be angels. We must be tolerant and receptive. We must lead the way in believing in the best in people and trying to make the rest of the world do the same. It is hard to separate our emotions from our judgement. But we must remember that this is a person that we don't know, but that we should get to know and understand.