Watch Journey Toward Forgiveness
- NR
- 57 min
This hour-long documentary powerfully demonstrates that those who are able to embark on a process towards forgiveness -- though heartrending and difficult -- find it to be the path to inner healing. Stories include:
- An Enemy Worse than Death -- With the abduction and murder of their 13-year-old daughter, Wilma and Cliff Derksen begin the long path through grief toward forgiveness.
- Hospice Helps -- Two families share how LifePath Hospice has helped them cope. Nathaniel, terminally ill, has to handle a deep family rift. The Ortiz family faces unresolved anger from their daughter's death by a drunken driver.
- StoryKeepers: A Way to Heal -- Susie Risho helps people heal from life's many griefs by telling their stories.
- I'll Give You the Gettin' -- Walter Wangerin, Jr., Lutheran pastor and storyteller, shares the story of a couple facing cancer and how the wife dealt with her anger over her husband's illness.
- Turning Hate Into Hope -- The shooting of his brother by a white marshal, his own beating, and a bargain with God, led John Perkins to many years of work for social justice.
- Forgive, But Remember -- Lawrence Hart, a Cheyenne peace chief, tells the story of the Washita Massacre in Oklahoma in 1868 and a time of reconciliation 100 years later.
- A Bigger Victim than Myself -- Bud Welch describes his journey from rage and temporary insanity to forgiveness after his 23-year-old daughter died in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
Journey Toward Forgiveness is a documentary with a runtime of 57 minutes.