Thru Love!

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Permalink Reply by Cody Tellene on November 22, 2008 at 12:26pm

Yes.. I was given the gift of Forgiving in the Summer of 1970 just a few months after my 14th birthday...

On July 13 around 9 p.m. I was just at that place where I was not asleep and not quite awake. I heard my mother scream my name and Help me....help me. I quickly got up and quietly listened. I heard nothing. I went upstairs from my room in the basement, stopping and listening every few steps. I went to my Mother's room. She was lying in bed my dad in the bathroom. I asked my Mom if she had called me. She startled me with a "NO... WHAT DID YOU HEAR??? In a tone that said she knew that I knew, something..I told her what I heard. I went to bed, but could not fall asleep right away. Around 1:30 am I heard her yell for help again. I got out of bed and went to my doorless doorway, my mom was being dragged down the stairs. I did not know that this was the last time I would see my Mom. Around 4 am we were awakened by a family friend. (We were a family of 6 kids) My sister 2nd oldest in the mix, was visiting our grandmother. So there were only 5 of us at home that night. We were taken to a family friend's house up the block where my brother and I were questioned by Police for quite some time. The a Priest told my brother and I that our Mom had gone to live with God...My brother and I had to tell the rest of the kids, and I can still hear to this day my baby sisters response.

We ended up at our Uncle's (my Dad's brother) in Oklahoma City. We were in Kansas when she died.....

I am not sure what month but it was, before the school year was to start, my Dad came to visit us kids. I stood in the kitchen about 10 feet from my Dad...every fiber of my being felt a great HATE for him...

(the last thing my Mom said to me that night was "If your Father kills me can you take over?" and when my brother and I ran to our doors in respose to her screams we were told to get back to bed unless we wanted some...

and when the Priest told us our Mom was dead I could not cry - I had to take over - How???

As I was standing in my uncle's kitchen and hating my Dad - suddenly I felt a hand on my head, I turned around to see who it was - no one was near enough, and I felt it still, then I heard in my head "You do not hate you Dad, besides he is the only Parent you have left." Immediatly I felt all my hate drain down out of my body through my feet and I felt a weight lift from my shoulders. I ran to my Dad and hugged him I told hime I loved him and to hurry back to us kids. I do not believe a 14 year old has the capacity to forgive something so life changing, I was touched by the Divine and given this GIFT...Cody

My Dad will always be my Hero...
My Dad called the Police, took my Mom to the hospital, turned himself in and told the TRUTH....the whole truth
My brother and I were flown up to Kansas to testify in court. However, my dad plead guilty and waved a trial by jury. I have his court records of the hearing. My dad did not want my brother and I to have to testify. He did it for us...
While the Police were questioning us I saw in my mind my Dad holding my Mom in his arms slowly walking through a Meadow with birds, flowers and butterflies...I knew she was gone before the Priest told us...
My dad was kicked out of Prison by the Warden, he was going to start Drafting classes for those who had short sentences and wanted to learn a new skill, my Dad was a model prisoner, helping other inside, kind and caring......They said It was a crime of passion and my Dad was not a threat to Society.

My Dad and I talked about this incident many times over the course of My adult life. We have a good relationship.

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Permalink Reply by Perry Steinbach on March 4, 2009 at 11:17am

You are truely Blessed, thank you very much for sharing this. Blessings to you my friend!
:o) Perry

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Permalink Reply by NDE-Space on July 11, 2009 at 12:32am

Wow Cody, to have the gift of forgiveness at that age and to have been touched by an angel is a gift.
I'm glad you come out OK after all of this. Most would have this hate growing inside of them for the rest of there lives and that's no way to live. I know God has blessed you more than once.
Thank's for sharing this with us. Sorry it took so long, my bad.

Love ya!
Glauco

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Permalink Reply by Liz Cosline on July 10, 2009 at 12:55am

Beautiful

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Permalink Reply by rudenski rudenski on July 10, 2009 at 7:59am

We all do what we do... but if even someone who kills is loved by whatever it is you call the loving being on the other side of time... then that love is an extraordinary love...

I know I am no saint since my NDE but when I love or am I am loved.. if I do anything that pleases my loving father and mother...beyond time... it is put on the walls of heaven itself... like the refrigerator of our earthly mother and father...

God is like a mother who... even though her son is on death row... know in her heart that her son could not have committed that crime...

Love loves... no exceptions...

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Permalink Reply by marie nelson on July 10, 2009 at 6:06pm

Thank you for that moving story of true forgiveness, wow, you have truely, truely have had the ultimate test of forgiveness, truely inspirational, tears move my heart to greater love..... Thank you, such spirit, I am humbled beyond words....amen

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Permalink Reply by janie on July 10, 2009 at 8:42pm

Wow that is powerful.. Is this not the question? To be or not to be like jesus? Forgiveness is the true test of love.. True love saves.... Love conquers all...

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Permalink Reply by Beuchat Fanny on July 11, 2009 at 5:37am

Thanks for sharing this...

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Permalink Reply by bangaroo on July 11, 2009 at 9:43am

Hi Glauco,

This message is great. It shows at the end, at the very end, how Jesus could love like that, despite all the hatred, the loneliness, the hurt, the sarcasm, and all he endured. It shows us that his love is unique, to be loved like that I guess, is the dream of every soul. Thankfully for us, we know that He does.

When you taste that kind of love, what else is there to desire?

Peace, Bangaroo

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Permalink Reply by Lynn Belding on July 12, 2009 at 6:17pm

SO BEAUTIFUL, SO TRUE

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Permalink Reply by Maria Lucia Gomes on July 18, 2009 at 8:46pm

Sim Glauco, se voce nao perdoa entao nao e amor. O amor verdadeiro e puro, sem cobrancas. Eu amo incondicionalmente alquem....e amarei por toda a vida. E perdoo todos os dias, e agradeco a Jesus, por ter tido a oportunidade de conhecer esta pessoa especial. Amar e aceitar a pessoa como ela e, aprender a conhecer e entender as fraquezas. Amar e se dedicar a este amor, com calma e paciencia. Compreender as falhas e se alegrar por este sentimento.....Lu

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