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Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (精装)
by Immaculee Ilibagiza
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Biography, History, Inspiration, Spirituality |
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| MSL Pointer Review:
Awe-inspiring and spiritually uplifting, Left to Tell is a powerful tale of faith, survival, and forgiveness. |
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Sophia Younger (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
When I heard Immaculee Ilibagiza speak on NPR about her experience and what she had learned, I found myself moved by her definition of peace as negotiation, sacrifice, and the search for compromise. When I saw her book, I knew that the wisdom contained within would teach me about faith. I did not know how much the book would develop the philosophy of forgiveness as a path towards personal freedom. Ilbagiza uses her faith and the power of positive thinking to offer a story about a moment in history for which I had trouble forgiving myself. After all, I am one of the many who knew of the genocide and thought what can I do about them killing each other over there, we are killing each other over here. My attitude was wrong. Reading that book reinforces how these cycles of violence are really no different. Her story has reminded me that only through forgiveness and understanding can one truly end conflict. |
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Robert Kellemen (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
Many authors try to solve the mystery of suffering by examining it purely through a theological grid. Others attempt to understand evil only through the framework of personal experience. Immaculee Ilibagiza combines both. Her devout faith in a good God along with her hell-on-earth, paradise-in-her-soul approach makes "Left to Tell" a unique and rewarding book.
Every honest person admits that they want to discover God amidst the good and the bad of life. We all ask the questions that Ilibagiza addresses. "Where is God?" "How do I forgive evil?" Few are forced to probe such questions in the midst of such soul-numbing devastation.
Through her candid autobiography of suffering, heaven and hell meet, paradise and prison convene. Through her riveting account of their encounter, readers bump up against the reality that the infinite love of an all-wise, but often mysterious God, can provide hope to the hurting, release from rage, and faith during the darkest night of the soul. |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
I love to read, mostly spiritual self-help books, and a few biographies. I would say I read about 2 books a month on average, sometimes more. Any way I simply could not put this book down. I felt as if I was experiencing everything she was experiencing, and I could not help but admire her faith in God. She reminded me how good God is, and how he can do the impossible if we just trust him. I plan to give the book to a couple people as Christmas presents this year, so that they can truly embrace how blessed they are. |
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Trudi White (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
I am inspired by the author's story of faith during hardship.
In the midst of the most horrific events I could possibly imagine she made a choice. She could have spent her time reviewing the horrors, her devastatingly difficult conditions and the probable fate of her family. Instead she chose to control the only things she could. Herself.
She took herself to a place of absolute faith and protection. She chose HOW she would respond. She responded by finding actual comfort in spirit.
She also chose to forgive. That choice did not come easily nor quickly. But she knew for her it was necessary.
Ilibagiza decided that she would immerse herself in spirit and come out a better person.
She also demonstrates the power of choosing your own destiny, visualizing the results and living the outcome. Despite what she had been through, she didn't see herself as a victim. She chose the life she wanted. And created it.
She is the most inspiring figure in the face of devastation that I have ever heard or read about. |
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Karen (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
Reading this book has changed the way I have looked, felt and believed in life. I couldn't put it down, and everyday I keep thinking about it. I have shared with others the awe-inspiring inspiration I have received. I am not one to read a lot of spiritual books or self help books. I have read a few but this one definitely surpasses any book I have read in a very long time. I am blown away. And it has made me take stock of my own life and my beliefs and it has shifted. I started thinking about whom in my life do I need to forgive. I truly recommend this book to everyone! We all need it especially now with what is going on in the world today. |
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Laurie Baer (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
This is the first actual personal account of the Rwandan Holocaust that I've read, and the facts are as horrible as the news reports I'd read when the first accounts about this began to emerge. What a story, what a tragedy, what a remarkable woman. Her ability to recount this story and her forgiveness after the fact are enough to make anyone ponder their own life's challenges in a whole new perspective. It can make one truly give pause when speaking the word "forgiveness". |
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Leslie Good (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
For those of us who try not to be blown away by every evening news broadcast, this book filled in not only the headlines, but behind the scenes, horrid detestable acts of the Rwandan Holocaust. Too often when a place is so far away, one cannot fully realize the human suffering just by seeing TV. In her book, Immaculee begins by describing her family and their happy lives and hopes and dreams. Each person in her family is given ample coverage and you start to feel as though you know each of them yourself before long. It is interesting to read how her parents raised her and her siblings to see only people and not tribes or different cultures and yet, during the worst of times, they were turned on as though they had been part of a hate group to begin with. A few times, I had to put the book down because of the anxiety I felt during her recounting of this horrible event that lasted far too long in her country. An excellent book and saddening look at a time in Rwandan history that you can really only get close to by reading this. |
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