Dear Sir:
I am so thankful to have found myself reading your letter to Senator Obama. Yours is the “teaching moment” — not only for the senator (and his pastor), but for all who have been blessed to have read it.
As a believing Christian, forgiveness is the pathway to our salvation. By putting to work the love of God instead of our own sense of justice, we can be saved from destructive anger. This is the victory of the Cross: to not just take from God His gift of forgiveness, but to offer it freely in love to our fellow man — to those who sin as easily as we.
You are a man on whose heart the laws of God are written. It will be those laws that ultimately unite us as a people and lead to our collective salvation.
What you have taught us today has timeless value. Thank you.
