Rita Rose: Christ in Us

Pa. shooter was 'angry at God' - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com (10/3/2006)

Meanwhile, Rita Rose, a local nurse and midwife who delivered several children in the Amish community, told NBC’s Ann Curry that the mother of a 13-year-old girl who died has forgiven Roberts.
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AP

‘They honestly have forgiven’Rita Rhoads, a local nurse and midwife who delivered several children in the Amish community, told NBC’s Ann Curry that the mother of a 13-year-old girl who died has forgiven Roberts.

“She holds no ill will toward the shooter. She’s very forgiving. Christ forgave us, and we in turn forgive, and they honestly have forgiven,” she said. “Even last night, there was no anger toward the shooter.”

Rhoads described the teenage girl, who she did not identify, as “just beginning to blossom; she was very sweet.”

The victims were members of the Old Order Amish. Lancaster County is home to some 20,000 Old Order Amish, who eschew automobiles, electricity, computers, fancy clothes and most other modern conveniences, live among their own people, and typically speak a German dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch

What this AP article fails to quote is Rita's repeated affirmation that forgiveness is possible only because of Christ in us.
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