Love Always Wins

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I was reading this morning about Susan Smith and the tragic death of her two children.  She was sentenced to life in prison instead of given the death penalty.  Her ex-husband has moved on and now has a daughter who is 24 by another marriage.  But he says he wishes she were dead.  At the time of the deaths of her two children she was having an affair with the son of the business owner where she worked.  

I won’t go into all the details because it is such a sad story.  Love always wins.  That is how I see it.  Her hatred lost but his love won.   I’d rather focus on him than her.  His love won.  He still harbors hatred of her and who can blame him?  But through it all it made him a better person.  Life experiences do that for us.  For him it took a tragedy of gigantic proportions and her hatred destroyed her life.  

Hate never wins.  He may never stop hating her for what she did.  But her hatred taught him to love again.  And maybe a better love than he ever had with her.  If I have to refresh your memory about Susan Smith I’d rather not.  But she was convicted of killing her two children in 1990 when she drove her car down a boat ramp killing her two children as they drowned in their car seats.  Then she claimed her car was stolen by a black man and he was the murderer.

She was sentenced to life in prison and has been in prison for over 30 years having been denied parole by her first parole hearing.  No one can blame her ex-husband for his hatred of her.  She says that now she’s found God and feels He has forgiven her.  I can’t prove what I’m about to say but it is ingrained in my thinking.  She could have done anything else but murder.  That is the one sin God will not overlook.  She can feel however she wishes to feel.

I just want to say that there are laws we must obey or face the consequences.  But in my thinking there is only one sin God can’t overlook and that one sin she committed.  I don’t believe in the death penalty and never will.  I believe in that one law of God’s.  One does not get away with murder in His eyes.  This includes the taking of one’s own life.  

God’s love always wins.  But the kind of hatred she showed and demonstrated is never forgiven.  And that is my point this morning.  The love of her ex-husband won.  He can hate her for what she did.  No one can blame him.  But maybe even still she is the most hated woman in America; if not the world.  I’m giving some love this morning to my Boswell pipe with some Lavish English tobacco.  My coffee this morning is from Stumptown and is Homestead coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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