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I know that as a Christian I am meant to forgive but how? Those who did this are not repentant. Surely, if I forgive them it sets them free to do it again?
Wilberforce represents many in Rwanda. Out of the country when the 1994 genocide started, he returned to discover the grave where his father, brother and sister-in-law are buried, together with six other members of his household. All the Tutsi in this neighbourhood were pushed in here, he explained. Then they set fire to some rubber tyres and pushed them inside. They choked to death. The awful thing is that those who did it were our neighbours, and we knew them well.
Rwanda is full of such stories. Those who survived have had to compromise and struggle with slow, often inadequate justice. What happens when a man is released from prison and returns to live in
the community where once he was a killer? Or a woman sees those who raped her walking freely about the town?
Yet, with divine help, ordinary human beings are able to forgive the most appalling harm. God is beginning to restore the years that the locusts have eaten. Meg tells story after story of moments of extraordinary grace and reconciliation. A growing body of people have discovered healing for their pain at the cross of Christ. They are forgiving those who caused them unbelievable harm. Only in such changed hearts is there hope, and the possibility that the cycle of hatred and vengeance will be broken.
The Rev. Meg Guillebaud is a missionary in Rwanda. The third generation of her family to serve there, she grew up in the country and lost many childhood friends in the genocide a history vividly described in her first book Rwanda: the Land God Forgot?
Wilberforce represents many in Rwanda. Out of the country when the 1994 genocide started, he returned to discover the grave where his father, brother and sister-in-law are buried, together with six other members of his household. All the Tutsi in this neighbourhood were pushed in here, he explained. Then they set fire to some rubber tyres and pushed them inside. They choked to death. The awful thing is that those who did it were our neighbours, and we knew them well.
Rwanda is full of such stories. Those who survived have had to compromise and struggle with slow, often inadequate justice. What happens when a man is released from prison and returns to live in
the community where once he was a killer? Or a woman sees those who raped her walking freely about the town?
Yet, with divine help, ordinary human beings are able to forgive the most appalling harm. God is beginning to restore the years that the locusts have eaten. Meg tells story after story of moments of extraordinary grace and reconciliation. A growing body of people have discovered healing for their pain at the cross of Christ. They are forgiving those who caused them unbelievable harm. Only in such changed hearts is there hope, and the possibility that the cycle of hatred and vengeance will be broken.
The Rev. Meg Guillebaud is a missionary in Rwanda. The third generation of her family to serve there, she grew up in the country and lost many childhood friends in the genocide a history vividly described in her first book Rwanda: the Land God Forgot?
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Book Details
| Author / Artist | Meg Guillebaud |
| Book Format | Paperback |
| Publisher | Monarch Books |
| Date Published | 2005-09-01 |
| ISBN | 9781854247179 |
| ISBN-10 | 1854247174 |
| Product ID | 106175 |
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Christian Books > Christian Biography > Missionary Biography
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