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Legacy Letter to My Son and Daughter As I sit down to write this letter to my son and daughter, the television is on in the background. Osama bin Laden, America's number one Public Enemy, has been killed. This is no doubt a victory for America, and, his death was probably inevitable in the quest for justice, as it is unlikely that he would have been willing to be taken alive. However, it makes me stop and think about what I want to teach you. I want the two of you to embrace, if nothing else from Christianity, the morals from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. I want you to forgive and to love, because hate consumes the vessel that carries it. However, I also want you to understand that sometimes justice means ugliness. This is a dichotomy that I still do not necessarily understand myself, but it is something that people in power have to recognize

Please do not misunderstand me; I am not a person who thinks that hate is only a negative emotion. I think that hate can be a very constructive emotion. Hate can motivate people to move beyond ugly circumstances and to improve themselves, proving the adage...

I also think that much of what people label hate is actually hurt, and the feeling of hate keeps them from going back to the people and circumstances that have hurt them in the past. This type of hate is constructive. However, I have also learned that hate can destroy the vessel. The more time you spend on negative emotions, the more power you give the person who originally hurt you. One day, you wake up and realize that an event that took them 10 minutes to do to you has stolen days or even years of your life. When hate is ruling your life, when you hate something more strongly than you love anything, then hate is destructive. It is in those moments that you must offer forgiveness. I am not going to tell you that you have to forgive the person who harmed you, but you must forgive yourself for allowing their harm to define you, and you must move on and choose a new definition for yourself. Even in a tragedy like 9-11, the survivors had a choice to move on and find happiness or to allow an act of terrorism to become their definition. If you are ever put in a similar…

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