"Amish Grace" and Forgiveness

"Amish Grace" premiered tonight (2010) about the shooting of the girls in the Amish school in Penns. fairly recently. Very touching movie...I'm blubbering before we're hardly even into it. Last fall when Lin took her trip through the area she stopped by as her camping ground was nearby. She met a number of Amish people, among them the school teacher now in the new school that they built so as to spare the children going back to that memory ever again. She saw the site of the old school but the old school was razed, understandably. Because Lin is especially sensitive and respectful in many ways ( though a fierce fighter in school and annoying as hell), they allowed her to visit the new school ( not in session) and to take some pictures which Lin has not published in any way of any of the Amish people or their village..not even the bakery where the lady kept bringing pies to her camper because she was a lone traveler.
  Keep your eye out for it...I'm sure it will be repeated many times. It also happens to be pretty sensitive to the lifestyle and thinking of the Amish people, and the struggles they had individually and as a community over forgiving the killer and offering help to his wife and family in her grief. I'm sitting here blubbering over a whole community of people being able to do this when I have never been on a committee in my life that ever came to a concensus about anything.
  People do strange things. For years we have had a flower fund to send ailing or grieving colleagues in hard times. I understand that this year people withheld their contribution as usual because they feel they always acknowledge everyone individually anyway. Toward the end of the year a rather aggressive teacher went round pressuring everybody who hadn't contributed this year to hand in their contributions. Many people were angry because the money was diverted to pay for a farewell party for an unpopular principal and not for someone sick, in the hospital, or grieving over a loss.
  Whatever people thought of her, it was a loss for her. This school was the biggest project of her life and whether or not she was good at it, she threw herself into it with gusto. Had I been on the staff, I wouldn't have resented my contribution being used for such an occasion.