A long time ago, in England, a little boy was desperately ill with diphtheria; his throat heavily choked with membrane and only a narrow chance to live. A tube was inserted to allow him to breathe and a nurse assigned to stay by his bedside and regularly clear the tube. Instead, the nurse fell asleep and when she awoke the tube was blocked and the little boy was dead.
The doctor raged, “Never will she practice nursing again.” He promptly sat down and wrote a vitriolic letter to the Medical Board asking for her prompt and complete dismissal from the nursing profession. Then he called her into his office and berated her for such blundering and inexcusable behavior.
“Please forgive me. Please give me another chance,” she pleaded.
He almost laughed in her face. But that night, he could not sleep. Something inside him kept saying, “Give her that second chance. Give her forgiveness.”
And so he did. And she went on to become the head of a large hospital and one of the most honored nurses in all of England.
“For I will be merciful and gracious toward their sins and I will remember their deeds of unrighteousness no more.” Hebrews 8:12
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