One so Beautiful and Innocent Made to Suffer Overcomes Fear Through Love and Forgiveness, This is God's Grace

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	• Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust Immaculee Ilibagiza Hay House, 2007 - 215 pages average customer review:based on 380 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A "have to read book"!!

You can not miss this book!! It's about a strong woman's horrible faith in a country she loves. You will not be able to put it down and if you don't feel amazed with everyhting in this book , then I think you just have to read it again!!

Left to tell:discovering God/the Rwandan Holocaust

This is truly a book that cannot be put down! The strength of not only Imaculee, but the other women involved surpasses human nature. And to see her on Dr. Dyer's show was amazing, as she harbors no hatred, but instead a strength beyond all imaginings. This is simply a must read and if you enjoy this, try Stolen Lives, another fantastic book about the plight of a woman.

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A Masterpiece of Spirituality and Social Justice

Simply, this was one of the most incredible and humbling books I have ever read.

As told by Immaculee Ilibagiza, "Left to Tell" relates how her parents and brothers were among one million victims of genocidal annihilation in 1994 Rwanda. The subtitle, "Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust," may benefit from some clarification. Immaculee was raised in a pious and ardently Catholic family. Though her family was not free of faults, her father's faith inspired and strengthened his neighbors: "If the government plans to kill us, all we can do is pray. Let us use the time we have to repent. Let us pray for God to forgive our sins. If we are to die, let us die with our hearts clean." Before Immaculee herself "discovered" God in the midst of her suffering, she was clearly an exceptionally devout young person. Through the deepening of her relationship with God, she was able to overcome unspeakable adversity.

In the face of abandonment and absolute betrayal by lifelong friends, Immaculee's temptation to despair seems to have been incredibly rare. Early in the book, she does relate how she and a schoolmate - should their school be set upon by extremists - made a pact to "escape" through suicide. Yet, virtually every other page of this book is a testament to her foregoing despair and ever more deeply experiencing God's love. To paraphrase the 23rd Psalm, she knew that God was walking with her in the valley of death, and she could see His providence in what others might attribute to incredible coincidence. She relates truly miraculous experiences of having looked evil in the eye and watching evil slither away.

Faced with the murder of members of her immediate family (to say nothing of her grandparents and others!), Immaculee's faith (and that of her murdered family) allowed her to trust God: "God had shown me that my family was in a place beyond suffering." "I may have lost everything, but I'd kept my faith, and it made me strong. It also comforted me and let me know that life still had a purpose."

Immaculee offers a call to the incredible liberation which comes from forgiveness: "God's message extends beyond borders: Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be."

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One so Beautiful and Innocent Made to Suffer Overcomes Fear Through Love and Forgiveness, This is God's Grace

I was shocked to find this precious book in my local small town library. The message here is so important to our world. I vaguely recalled news coverage from Rwanda, but had no idea of the atrocities taking place there in this day and age. It brings God's Light to Shine on the importance of the RESPONSIBILITY of us all when there is knowledge of INJUSTICE in the world to speak out against it, to stop the madness and do our part so that all God's children will treat our brothers and sisters with HUMANTIY. Where was the media coverage of the TRUTH and why didn't the USA send help? What atrocities are taking place RIGHT NOW? We take so much for granted when there is still so much unnecessary suffering everyday in the world. LOVE and FORGIVENESS is the ANSWER! The men and women who do evil are God's children deserving of love and forgiveness as God spoke this truth to Immaculee. Through our forgiveness our trespassers are released to a place where they may find forgiveness of self and we are released to experience freedom in our very souls. Immaculee shows us the way. Thank You Immaculee, you are truly an Earth Angel!

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Another 5 star review

In 1994, my biggest problem was whether or not I was going to make the next high school basketball game. Immaculee's biggest problem was whether or not she was going to make it to her next birthday.

Before reading this book, I could not imagine the pain of having my closest family members killed, of hearing babies crying for their mothers who have most likely been raped, brutalized, and killed. Genocide was a word that I couldn't understand. It was also a word for what happened in another lifetime and didn't affect me.

Immaculee pulls you in to her story and lets you feel her fear. Time and time again in this book she could have gotten killed at any moment. Thank goodness for us, she was spared and left to tell her story. I'm not a Christian or a religious person but this book brings me closer to some of my own personal truths.

I would recommend this book to anyone.

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