Loving Your Enemies

This story blew me away.

There are races for every cause under the sun: for diseases, for vocations, for non-profit groups, you name it. Worthy causes, each and every one. But in London over the weekend, some 450 runners gathered not so much to raise money, but to raise awareness … of missing people. Joining the race were parents Kate and Gerry McCann, who ran wearing t-shirts bearing a picture of the their young daughter, Madeleine, who’s been missing for nearly two years. Their shirts read, “Don’t Give Up On Me.”

Sad, but that’s not the part that blew me away. This was:

Earlier Kate revealed how she prays for the kidnapper and said that she will try to find it in her heart to forgive them.

Imagine that: She prays for the person who kidnapped her own daughter. That’s a powerful witness.

Please, dear God, bring Madeleine home.

Please keep her safe.

Please console her family,

and inspire a conversion in her kidnapper’s heart.

More: Race for Missing People, Yahoo! News Story