PEACEMAKING
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OPENING STORY: [PICTURE OF THORDIS ELVA AND TOM STRANGER] THORDIS AND TOM WERE IN HIGH SCHOOL WHEN THEY BEGAN A DATING RELATIONSHIP. HE WAS AN EXCHANGE STUDENT FROM AUSTRALIA WHO HAD COME TO THORDIS’ ICELAND, AND WAS SMITTEN BY HER. CHRISTMAS DANCE…RAPED HER FOR TWO STRAIGHT HOURS. ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC. BROKE UP SOON AFTER…FOR THE NEXT NINE YEARS SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATED AND TRIED TO MOVE ON WITH HER LIFE BUT COULDN’T. SHE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT FOR HER PEACE WOULD NOT COME UNTIL SHE REACHED OUT TO THIS MAN WHO HAD VIOLATED HER. SO SHE DID ON EMAIL. FOUND HIM TO BE BEYOND CONTRITE…THEY DIALOGED VIA EMAIL FOR THE NEXT 8 YEARS…SOMEWHAT HELPFUL, BUT SHE STILL DIDN’T FIND THE COMPLETE PEACE SHE WAS LOOKING FOR. CONVINCED SHE HAND TO MEET HIM FACE TO FACE…HALFWAY POINT BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM AUSTRALIA. THEY SPENT A WEEK TOGETHER THERE. SHE EVEN INVITED HIM TO HER HOTEL ROOM…HEARD EACH OTHER’S STORIES. WHAT THEN HAPPENED NEXT BAFFLED THE WORLD- THEY WROTE A BOOK TOGETHER CALLED, ‘SOUTH OF FORGIVENESS’…TED TALK VIEWED OVER TWO MILLION TIMES IN ITS FIRST WEEK. THEY ARE A PICTURE OF WHAT THE BIBLE CALLS PEACE. AND THEIR PEACE IS A MODEL TO THE WORLD.
OPENING STORY: [PICTURE OF THORDIS ELVA AND TOM STRANGER] THORDIS AND TOM WERE IN HIGH SCHOOL WHEN THEY BEGAN A DATING RELATIONSHIP. HE WAS AN EXCHANGE STUDENT FROM AUSTRALIA WHO HAD COME TO THORDIS’ ICELAND, AND WAS SMITTEN BY HER. CHRISTMAS DANCE…RAPED HER FOR TWO STRAIGHT HOURS. ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC. BROKE UP SOON AFTER…FOR THE NEXT NINE YEARS SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATED AND TRIED TO MOVE ON WITH HER LIFE BUT COULDN’T. SHE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT FOR HER PEACE WOULD NOT COME UNTIL SHE REACHED OUT TO THIS MAN WHO HAD VIOLATED HER. SO SHE DID ON EMAIL. FOUND HIM TO BE BEYOND CONTRITE…THEY DIALOGED VIA EMAIL FOR THE NEXT 8 YEARS…SOMEWHAT HELPFUL, BUT SHE STILL DIDN’T FIND THE COMPLETE PEACE SHE WAS LOOKING FOR. CONVINCED SHE HAND TO MEET HIM FACE TO FACE…HALFWAY POINT BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM AUSTRALIA. THEY SPENT A WEEK TOGETHER THERE. SHE EVEN INVITED HIM TO HER HOTEL ROOM…HEARD EACH OTHER’S STORIES. WHAT THEN HAPPENED NEXT BAFFLED THE WORLD- THEY WROTE A BOOK TOGETHER CALLED, ‘SOUTH OF FORGIVENESS’…TED TALK VIEWED OVER TWO MILLION TIMES IN ITS FIRST WEEK. THEY ARE A PICTURE OF WHAT THE BIBLE CALLS PEACE. AND THEIR PEACE IS A MODEL TO THE WORLD.
OPENING STORY: [PICTURE OF THORDIS ELVA AND TOM STRANGER] THORDIS AND TOM WERE IN HIGH SCHOOL WHEN THEY BEGAN A DATING RELATIONSHIP. HE WAS AN EXCHANGE STUDENT FROM AUSTRALIA WHO HAD COME TO THORDIS’ ICELAND, AND WAS SMITTEN BY HER. CHRISTMAS DANCE…RAPED HER FOR TWO STRAIGHT HOURS. ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC. BROKE UP SOON AFTER…FOR THE NEXT NINE YEARS SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATED AND TRIED TO MOVE ON WITH HER LIFE BUT COULDN’T. SHE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT FOR HER PEACE WOULD NOT COME UNTIL SHE REACHED OUT TO THIS MAN WHO HAD VIOLATED HER. SO SHE DID ON EMAIL. FOUND HIM TO BE BEYOND CONTRITE…THEY DIALOGED VIA EMAIL FOR THE NEXT 8 YEARS…SOMEWHAT HELPFUL, BUT SHE STILL DIDN’T FIND THE COMPLETE PEACE SHE WAS LOOKING FOR. CONVINCED SHE HAND TO MEET HIM FACE TO FACE…HALFWAY POINT BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM AUSTRALIA. THEY SPENT A WEEK TOGETHER THERE. SHE EVEN INVITED HIM TO HER HOTEL ROOM…HEARD EACH OTHER’S STORIES. WHAT THEN HAPPENED NEXT BAFFLED THE WORLD- THEY WROTE A BOOK TOGETHER CALLED, ‘SOUTH OF FORGIVENESS’…TED TALK VIEWED OVER TWO MILLION TIMES IN ITS FIRST WEEK. THEY ARE A PICTURE OF WHAT THE BIBLE CALLS PEACE. AND THEIR PEACE IS A MODEL TO THE WORLD.
OPENING STORY: [PICTURE OF THORDIS ELVA AND TOM STRANGER] THORDIS AND TOM WERE IN HIGH SCHOOL WHEN THEY BEGAN A DATING RELATIONSHIP. HE WAS AN EXCHANGE STUDENT FROM AUSTRALIA WHO HAD COME TO THORDIS’ ICELAND, AND WAS SMITTEN BY HER. CHRISTMAS DANCE…RAPED HER FOR TWO STRAIGHT HOURS. ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC. BROKE UP SOON AFTER…FOR THE NEXT NINE YEARS SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATED AND TRIED TO MOVE ON WITH HER LIFE BUT COULDN’T. SHE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT FOR HER PEACE WOULD NOT COME UNTIL SHE REACHED OUT TO THIS MAN WHO HAD VIOLATED HER. SO SHE DID ON EMAIL. FOUND HIM TO BE BEYOND CONTRITE…THEY DIALOGED VIA EMAIL FOR THE NEXT 8 YEARS…SOMEWHAT HELPFUL, BUT SHE STILL DIDN’T FIND THE COMPLETE PEACE SHE WAS LOOKING FOR. CONVINCED SHE HAND TO MEET HIM FACE TO FACE…HALFWAY POINT BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM AUSTRALIA. THEY SPENT A WEEK TOGETHER THERE. SHE EVEN INVITED HIM TO HER HOTEL ROOM…HEARD EACH OTHER’S STORIES. WHAT THEN HAPPENED NEXT BAFFLED THE WORLD- THEY WROTE A BOOK TOGETHER CALLED, ‘SOUTH OF FORGIVENESS’…TED TALK VIEWED OVER TWO MILLION TIMES IN ITS FIRST WEEK. THEY ARE A PICTURE OF WHAT THE BIBLE CALLS PEACE. AND THEIR PEACE IS A MODEL TO THE WORLD.
OPENING STORY: [PICTURE OF THORDIS ELVA AND TOM STRANGER] THORDIS AND TOM WERE IN HIGH SCHOOL WHEN THEY BEGAN A DATING RELATIONSHIP. HE WAS AN EXCHANGE STUDENT FROM AUSTRALIA WHO HAD COME TO THORDIS’ ICELAND, AND WAS SMITTEN BY HER. CHRISTMAS DANCE…RAPED HER FOR TWO STRAIGHT HOURS. ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC. BROKE UP SOON AFTER…FOR THE NEXT NINE YEARS SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATED AND TRIED TO MOVE ON WITH HER LIFE BUT COULDN’T. SHE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT FOR HER PEACE WOULD NOT COME UNTIL SHE REACHED OUT TO THIS MAN WHO HAD VIOLATED HER. SO SHE DID ON EMAIL. FOUND HIM TO BE BEYOND CONTRITE…THEY DIALOGED VIA EMAIL FOR THE NEXT 8 YEARS…SOMEWHAT HELPFUL, BUT SHE STILL DIDN’T FIND THE COMPLETE PEACE SHE WAS LOOKING FOR. CONVINCED SHE HAND TO MEET HIM FACE TO FACE…HALFWAY POINT BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM AUSTRALIA. THEY SPENT A WEEK TOGETHER THERE. SHE EVEN INVITED HIM TO HER HOTEL ROOM…HEARD EACH OTHER’S STORIES. WHAT THEN HAPPENED NEXT BAFFLED THE WORLD- THEY WROTE A BOOK TOGETHER CALLED, ‘SOUTH OF FORGIVENESS’…TED TALK VIEWED OVER TWO MILLION TIMES IN ITS FIRST WEEK. THEY ARE A PICTURE OF WHAT THE BIBLE CALLS PEACE. AND THEIR PEACE IS A MODEL TO THE WORLD.