Where Does Grace Fall

I have read many heart felt posts about the verdict for Casey Anthony.  I think as Mom's we want justice especially when children are involved. But I tend to think that as we poke aim at this woman for something really we are speculating or guessing or we think we have a gut feeling about.  So often our sense of justice means taking life for life. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth? Don't we always forget to read on.... it gives us more hints to help heal our hurt for our injustice we feel.  For some reason inside us we think that our hearts will mend if someone else pays for an injustice that happened to someone else. The reality is. It does nothing. We only lose another life. I know this is controversial and my opinion will not be accepted by very many, but I do tend to feel that in our need to seek justice we forget why we wanted it in the first place.

We degrade the people who took time out of their lives to sit on the jury stand away from their families who sit and listened to this day in and day out and say they made a wrong choice. We say they had the easy job of terminating another life. Hum. Not so sure I would have been able to with stand being away from my kids, listening to that information, dealing with what they have to deal with for now and forever and now the rest of America criticizing their time, while we sit back and say we have more information and better discernment then them? 

I think we forget that people good or bad all deserve life. If we choose that we are pro life people we  should stand by that for people of all ages. The unborn and mothers that make mistake.  I we believe in Christ's resurrection power then we believe that life for her is the winning solution here, she has a second chance here to relive a legacy for her little girl, to change her choices and to find the Grace she so deserves. The Grace we get every morning. The grace we get when we have "murdered" someones character without knowing the full truth to the story or what really happened.  If this sweet girl's life was taken by her mother well, we know what kind of hell she is living in every day, with the loss of missing her laugh, her dancing feet, seeing her smile, don't we forget that in the systems of life in general there is a "justice" of our own torture that we face. I think that is true for this mom. My fear is that we as the American public have offered her no life beyond this, given her no hope that she can be more than a murderer, and given her no chance at grace. I will be the first to say, I am praying for restoration. I am not praying for justice. I am praying for grace. For someone to offer open arms of love, forgiveness, and support to family that is living in a world that hates them.  I guess I hope that grace falls before justice this time.