Husband forgives distracted driver who killed his wife: The power of faith in storms of deception and pain
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR OCTOBER 20, 2020
A husband forgave the distracted driver who killed his wife. Today's podcast tells their story, then we focus on the difference faith makes in a fallen culture, the deceptions of the QAnon movement, and the power of love in an unloving world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.7 | Melissa Nielsen kissed her husband Curtis goodbye and told him she would see him soon. |
| 0:25.1 | She then left for her daily morning walk around their neighborhood in Rigby, Idaho. Within minutes, |
| 0:30.8 | Curtis's phone rang. It was Melissa's friends saying she'd discovered her on the side of the road. |
| 0:36.6 | Curtis rushed to the scene, |
| 0:38.2 | where he found his wife lying on the ground. Their next-door neighbor Lincoln Lear was standing nearby |
| 0:43.5 | in horror. Lincoln's life was already deeply difficult. His wife suffered from a debilitating |
| 0:49.6 | respiratory condition. In 2014, the couple lost their oldest son to a neuromuscular degenerative disorder. |
| 0:57.5 | Then came the news that their two other children have the same disorder. That morning, |
| 1:02.7 | Lincoln said he had been driving to work and reached down to plug in his phone to charge. |
| 1:07.7 | In that moment, he swerved and hit Melissa. As Curtis knelt by his wife's body, their four |
| 1:13.5 | children, ages 15, 11, 8, and 4 were sleeping at home. I started breaking down, he recalls. |
| 1:20.8 | I started to pray. I knew she wasn't going to be with us after this. However, Curtis knew Melissa |
| 1:26.7 | would want him to forgive Lincoln, |
| 1:28.8 | so that's exactly what he did. Lincoln was subsequently charged with vehicular manslaughter and |
| 1:34.5 | pleaded guilty, but Curtis had been supportive of him. Lincoln's offense is punishable by a year |
| 1:40.4 | in jail and steep fines, but Curtis insisted he'd not go to jail or pay anything. |
| 1:46.4 | He was always being tortured enough by his own actions, Curtis explained, and I didn't want to |
| 1:51.8 | jeopardize him not having time with his own family. Lincoln says, I feel so grateful. |
| 1:57.9 | Everybody's been so supportive, caring, and sympathetic. If his attitude was different, |
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