Undeserving Dad Gains His Son's Forgiveness

When Brryan Jackson was 11 months old, he contracted HIV. How you ask? Believe it or not his father admitted to intentionally injecting the infant with HIV tainted blood. By 1996, Brryan was near death, suffering from AIDS defining infections. Two years later his father was found guilty and sent to prison. Today Brryan is 18 and a high school graduate. He is healthy on his 5 medications but more amazing is that he forgives his father for injecting him and giving him HIV and AIDS. Siting his religious beliefs, Brryan says God wants all of us to forgive; so that's what Brryan has done. While he no longer speaks to his father and has changed the spelling of his first name, Brryan has forgiven him and in the process has been able to move forward. As Brryan puts it, "I have to be the better person." I think he has done just that.

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