{"id":1107,"date":"2025-11-02T09:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2025-11-02T09:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:25:15","slug":"quick-to-forgive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/quick-to-forgive\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick to Forgive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/2025\/10\/michigans-amish-are-dying-on-the-roads-at-an-alarming-rate-this-year.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawNntpBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvnk6IUga58barjfPAz4lrnZ8fxLD0_zGp8kdgEJnxWR1JxAyZ2TmSI_OVOr_aem_U_RVjF4u0g4KtcWxvJVjTw\"> article in the Grand Rapids Press<\/a> on crashes involving Amish vehicles in Michigan highlights how the Amish live out Jesus\u2019 command to forgive. On October 16, 2022, an Amish couple was walking to church along a road in Isabella County when they were struck by a vehicle; the wife died. Some members of their Amish community asked for a meeting with the county prosecutor to let him know that the community forgave the driver, and didn\u2019t want the punishment harder because of them. The driver pled guilty to committing a moving violation causing death, and received probation.<\/p>\n<p>In another fatal crash, where a distracted driver killed an Amish pedestrian in Clare County, members of the Amish community attended the driver\u2019s sentencing and told the judge they forgave the man. He too received no jail time.<\/p>\n<p>The article doesn\u2019t mention whether either driver admitted responsibility or showed any remorse.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus warned us, \u201cIf you don\u2019t forgive people their sins, neither will your heavenly father forgive you your sins.\u201d Matthew 6:15. The Amish take this seriously, and are quick to forgive. How about the rest of us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in the Grand Rapids Press on crashes involving Amish vehicles in Michigan highlights how the Amish live out Jesus\u2019 command to forgive. On October 16, 2022, an Amish couple was walking to church along a road in Isabella County when they were struck by a vehicle; the wife died. Some members of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}