"Father forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing."

Do you have a parent or child you haven't talked to in years? How can we see them through eyes of mercy and kindness? Is it too late to connect or reconnect?

Is it possible that someone is there on the other side of the road, someone like you, stripped, knocked out, unable even to ask for help? Might that person be wounded also?

Consider the words of Jesus on the cross as He struggled for breath, His body so bloodied He was unrecognizable. He had done no evil, no wrong at all, ever.

Yet He was executed as a criminal. Jesus hung there, pinioned like a dove, and uttered the most startling words ever: “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”