I write this with great sadness over the unimaginable loss of a close friend to cancer. She was 41. She fought a brave and strong battle for two years but the cancer would not allow her to get better. She took each day in stride, never really complaining, always feeling tired and always hoping that […]
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Father Forgives Son’s Killer
On January 21, 1995, Tariq Khamisa, age 20, while delivering pizza in San Diego, CA, was shot and killed by a 14-year-old gang member, Tony Hicks. Tony had taken this order to shoot Tariq from an 18-year-old gang member.Tariq was a great soul, wise, charismatic, good-looking, a college student with a beautiful girlfriend who he […]
Forgiving My Father
by Cindy Holbrook I grew up with a verbally and physically abusive father. He was like two different people. He was the strong loving protector, but he also had a dark evil side.My family was pretty happy while dad was at work. My four siblings and I held our breath when he came home. Our […]
A Father and Daughter’s Journey
by Joy Sherman My dad was a frequent visitor to 9 west, the Oncology floor at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut. We would often walk the halls when he had the energy, or I would wheel him around just to give him a different perspective than the four walls of his room. This world […]
Q&A on Forgiveness with Dr. Fred Luskin
Dr. Frederic Luskin is director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project of Palo Alto, California, the largest interpersonal forgiveness training research project ever conducted. The Project has successfully explored forgiveness therapy with people who suffered from the violence in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone as well as the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11. Dr. […]
How May I Serve?
How often do we think, “What will I accomplish today?” or “What will the day bring for me?”, nothing at all wrong with these questions. But what if we woke up every morning and instead said, “How may I serve today?” What would open up for us, and others, if we commit to making things […]