Dedicated By: Mary
Message:
Father Tim: I was very, very young, and had no choice but to do what they had trained me for. But even so young I saw the tears you shed…for me, not for you…even as a child I could see you were concerned for me more than for you… how can that kind of love exist on this earth?Diane: I was no longer young, and while I still had no choice, I was by then trained and faced you as a true enemy. You had no way to know the impact of your blessing, your words of forgiveness, the love in your eyes toward me during the most horrible time of your life. I can speak no more of the times we met, when you perished in such ways, but of you, I must not forget and I must not remain silent. Because what was done to you both is still being done. Because you demonstrated the eternal truth underlying the words of Corrie ten Boom: There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still.Forgive me for what I was forced to do to you, Father Tim. Forgive me for what I did to you, Diane. I wish I could write more, but I can’t. It was so evil what they did to you, what they made me do, there are no words.I want to tell you that I saw God in you, that I saw love… had you not prayed for me, Father Tim, on that horrible occasion, even as you suffered so terribly; had you not blessed me, Diane, with all the horror happening to you, and with genuine love, there was nothing fake about it… would I even be alive today? Would I even know Jesus? I think not. God used the worst times of your lives, your very ends, to save me. For that, for you, I am eternally grateful.