Yesterday I finished reading a remarkable book about a remarkable person. The name of the book is Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust and the remarkable person is Immaculee Ilibagiza.
Immaculee spent three months hiding in a small bathroom with seven other women as angry mobs roamed Rwanda in 1994, killing everyone from her tribe regardless of whether they were women, children or the elderly. This genocide took the lives of one million people, including Immaculee's parents and two brothers.
Immaculee prayed during her time in the small bathroom and developed a deeper relationship with God. She miraculously escaped death several times as the killers called her name while searching the pastor's house where she was hiding.
This is a story about spiritual strength, faith, and ultimately forgiveness. Reading Immaculee's story will change the way you look at life. I will never forget her and neither will you if you read her book. It is not an easy book to read, but it is an important story. There are other genocides going on right now in this world (Darfur is one) and we need to become aware of how fear and hatred can lead to atrocities such as this.
Immaculee tells us that it is love that is going to heal this world and, as she points out, it has to start with healing our own hearts.
(To read more about Immaculee and her book, click on this link http://www.lefttotell.com/about/index.php
To order the book, click on the title in my Recommended Books section and you will go directly to Amazon Books.)
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