I have recently written about one of the most moving accounts of forgiveness that I have ever heard, that of Immaculee Ilibagiza. She is a Tutsi who survived the Rwandan genocide of 1994 by being hidden by a Hutu pastor, and she has written two books, Left To Tell, and Led By Faith. She lived in the pastor's 3'x4' basement bathroom with seven other women for three months until he snuck them out to a French refugee camp at 3 am. As if that ordeal wasn't enough, Immaculee later met and forgave the Hutu man who machete-ed her family to death because he had been "promised a farm" if he did it. Because forgiveness and love, at the end of the day, are the only things that make PM work, it would do us well to immerse ourselves in as many stories of "forgiveness on steroids" that we can get our hands on. Given the times in which we live, me thinks they need to be a continually readily available weapon.
