{"id":405,"date":"2010-10-11T15:31:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T21:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2010\/10\/11\/405\/"},"modified":"2010-10-07T15:33:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T21:33:50","slug":"powerful-and-inspirational-film-about-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2010\/powerful-and-inspirational-film-about-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful and Inspirational Film about Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/images\/Blog\/AmishGrace.jpg\" \/><strong><em>Amish Grace.<\/em><\/strong> Perhaps this film should have been called \u201cGod\u2019s Grace.\u201d Either way, the story is powerful and inspirational. It\u2019s based on the true account of a gunman who entered an Amish schoolhouse and killed some of the girls. The man\u2019s wife struggles to come to terms with the enormity of what her husband had done, and because of their belief in God\u2019s forgiveness of them, the Amish community offers a hand of forgiveness to the wife. Except for one mother. Ida, a fictional character, struggled to come to terms with that her own community preached. Viewers who watch this film should settle in to watch the entire movie, which isn\u2019t hard to do since the pacing keeps the viewer glued to the screen. The first half of the film seems almost black and white with the Amish as good guys and the \u201cOthers\u201d as evil influences. As the film moves on, however, both sides begin to grey so everyone just becomes human, with good and bad qualities. This in no way detracts from the strong message of forgiveness. The idea of forgiveness is shown to be very difficult and very real, but a viewer understands the messages behind forgiveness. When you don\u2019t forgive, you are disobeying God\u2019s command and authority. Even if you don\u2019t believe in God, the hatred that comes from a lack of forgiveness will eat at you, making you feel even worse.\u00a0 The acting is very real, and those who live in Amish communities will recognize the lifestyle, aside from the fact that all the Amish women in the film are young and beautiful, and there are no scenes with little babies, even though\u00a0 the Amish tend to have many children. Child Juror Comments: The message of forgiveness in this movie was really good. I\u2019m not sure that my friends would like it because it\u2019s so religious. My Christian friends would like it. They aren\u2019t like the Amish people in my area. The ones here don\u2019t talk. The acting and crying seemed real. If my brother got shot, I don\u2019t think I would act like the Amish. DVD. 94 min.; $22.98; Ages 14-18 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Amish-Grace-Kimberly-Williams-Paisley\/dp\/B003V3FSO6\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=dvd&#038;qid=1286486894&#038;sr=1-1\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Amish-Grace-Kimberly-Williams-Paisley\/dp\/B003V3FSO6\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=dvd&#038;qid=1286486894&#038;sr=1-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amish Grace. Perhaps this film should have been called \u201cGod\u2019s Grace.\u201d Either way, the story is powerful and inspirational. It\u2019s based on the true account of a gunman who entered an Amish schoolhouse and killed some of the girls. The man\u2019s wife struggles to come to terms with the enormity of what her husband had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSd8M-6x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}