Christianity 101: Man befriends the person who killed his brother (PICTURED)

Could you forgive someone who took a loved one from you? How could you even begin to go about forgiving them for what they have done? After forgiveness, could you be friends with this person? One New York man has done just that.

Anthony Colon lost his older brother tragically. He received the news that his brother had been shot to death in East Harlem, which was tragic for him, since he loved his older brother so much. He was angry. He remained angry for years. It took control of his life and wore him down. His brother had been unarmed when three men fired 13 rounds into his body.

Colon said that the hate and anger he felt made him hate everything. He said he hated life and everyone in it. It turned him into a monster, a shell of the person he once was. He missed his brother who had stood up for him and stood by him no matter what.

As the years went on, the anger finally wore down and Colon began to reclaim his life. He ended up getting married and having two children. He turned to religion for solace. He began to have a strong feeling that he needed to reconcile with his brother’s killer, he just wanted everything to be okay again.

One day when Colon was visiting a friend in prison, he saw Michael Rowe, one of the men that killed his brother. Rowe ducked when he spotted Colon. He waited for an altercation, but one never came. He felt ashamed and full of remorse for what he had done. He was also very afraid of retaliation. Colon walked up to Rowe, told him he had been praying for him and that he forgave him.

The two became friends after that. Colon has been helping Rowe adjust to life outside prison as he was released after 20 years of being behind bars. Colon believes that his religion led him to forgive his brother’s killer.  His extraordinary experience is a reminder of the tremendous power of forgiveness when we put it in our hearts.

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