Forgiveness at the Core of Amish Beliefs

From what we talked about of what forgiveness was, I looked it up in the dictionary of the meaning of forgiveness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgivenessand also looked in the Bible of (Matthew Chapter 6) Teaching about Prayer.

Although most of us know the Lords Prayer, here is a different way of saying it.....

Our Father in Heaven
May your holy name be honoured
May your kingdom come
May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven
Give us today the food we need
FORGIVE us the wrongs we have done as we forgive the wrongs that others have done to us.
Do not bring us to hard testing, but keep us safe from the evil one.

Now in verse 14 of Matthew Chapter 6, it is said:-

If you forgive others the wrongs they have done to you, your father in heaven will also forgive you.
But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive the wrongs you have done.

I suppose from reading this, the Amish believe it so much, that they had to forgive the man who murdered their children.

As I googled the internet for What Forgiveness ment for the Amish, I came up on (Forgiveness at the Core of Amish Beliefs

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06277/727246-85.stm

I also have added another link to the Rebel God Amish Forgiveness, how the word Forgiveness links with the Cross... This brings us again back to why the Amish Forgave the enemy for the Murder. "A person who has forgiven a grivous wrong done to them, can understand the meaning of the cross better then a thousand theologians"

http://sharktacos.com/God/2006/10/amish-Forgiveness.html

Alison