Message to Americans from Tehran University: Part Three

"This life will break your heart. It is hard enough, even when there is kindness.

"I lost my son to cancer. He had a brain tumor. I searched for a cure. I went on the Internet. I searched and searched.

"When he was sick, a woman from Washington, D.C. found out that I was looking for help. She wrote to me asking for my son's picture. She wanted to pray for him at a candlelight prayer vigil for victims of cancer.

"That's the kind of relationship I want to have with the people of America. Let's join with each other's pain and joy.  My son died. Nothing helped. But a woman named Catherine from Washington D.C. tried to join with me. I'll never forget her.

"This violent discourse is really dangerous and destructive. We have enough problems already. Why do people want to create more wasted lives and tragedy?"

Comments

[Richard Munn]

That is so beautiful, the heart that is deeper than any perticular this or that. I once saw a survivor of Hiroshima give a talk on peace. He survived the bomb when he was young, it was dropped and in the click of a finger everyone he knew was dead and he was orphaned. On top of that he was treated badly because he was an orphan, he grew a strong hatred for America and came to America to get revenge when he was 18.

On arriving however he saw directly that the people were just like him, suffered just like him and he opened. He concluded by asking "how can we have world peace unless we have peace in our own hearts?" It was so powerful to see him and inspires me to remain open and not close down and feel aggression fuelled by fear and a feeling that I've been wronged somehow. My heart still swells to think of that man.

Blessings and Love to you Terry