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Here is an email I received today--- """"Adam, you're leading off with a happy story?" you say. "Isn't there a more important news event that should have been awarded the coveted AFN lead-off spot?" Answer: Nope. This is as important a news story as any. It is a remarkable display of the love of Jesus that will continue to reverberate around the country and world. This, right here, is what we all need. 👉 I trust you remember Amber Guyger, the ex-Dallas cop from yesterday's newsletter who was convicted of murder for walking into her neighbor's apartment and shooting him dead after, she says, mistakenly thinking she was in her own apartment and he was intruder? She got sentenced yesterday. Ten years. The man she killed was named Botham Jean. The media had feverishly built up the "white person kills black person" angle of this tragic story, fomenting hate and division. The Black Lives Matter crowd was outside the courtroom, screaming, chanting, enraged, yelling that Guyger deserved more than ten years in prison and there will be "no peace!" until they see "justice!" Inside the courtroom, Botham's younger brother, 18-year-old Brandt, took the witness stand to address Guyger after her sentence had been announced. Describing what this young man said does it zero justice. You have to watch it for yourself. In short, Brandt said he did not hate her for killing his brother. He said he loves her just like anyone else. He said he didn't want to say this in front of his family, but he doesn't even want her to go to jail. He said he wanted the best for her, because "that's what Botham would want." "And the best would be give your life to Christ." "I think giving your life to Christ would be the best thing Botham would want you to do." He told her again that he loved her and wished nothing bad on her. The young man then turned and asked the judge as he held back tears, "I don't know if this is possible, but can I give her a hug, please?" "Please?" he implored again. "Yes," said the judge. Then Brandt Jean quickly stood up and walked toward Guyger, and Guyger, walking even faster than Jean, met him in the middle of the courtroom and threw herself into his arms. There they embraced tightly as she wept. They clung to each other and whispered things back and forth the substance of which only they and God will probably ever know. For nearly a full minute, Brandt Jean held tightly to his brother's killer, as she held onto him, with security guards standing nearby and the entire courtroom stunned. This is one of the most remarkable displays of grace manifested by the love of Christ that I can ever remember seeing and I can't stop watching it. Watch it for yourself and you will see what I mean. I've run out of words with which to describe it."""