HOPE
After hearing Mr Nicholson speak at a prison graduation, I left the graduation and immediately looked him up and read his story. Wow, is all that I can say. He is and should be an inspiration to us all. Everyone of us have traveled down a path that we shouldn't have and some get in deeper than they expected and some pick themselves back up and dust off the fall. Mr Nicholson is living proof of HOPE and he reiterates that there is still HOPE for everyone. He did not let this define who he is because he actually made this a page in his book and he started a new chapter.
Living is about forgiveness. I learned this the hard way also. My brother was on death row, and executed. The silver lining was that the night of his execution the family of his victim stood in proxy with me outside the prison. The family had forgiven my brother but the State didn't. My brothers death certificate lists his cause of death as “homicide”.
