They Killed Her 40 Relatives! She Forgave Them!

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. 

Years ago, there was this BBC story of a Congolese woman who was taken captive by militants along with 50 of her family members. Forty were shot dead in her presence. Her brother's private part was cut and he was killed for refusing to sleep with her She was forced to strangle her child and was later raped by 19 men.

She was stripped naked from the day she was captured to the day she escaped to tell her story. This woman was not a sister of Mother Theresa or a niece of Oprah Winfrey more does her maiden name bear Mandela!

She as an ordinary, local, village woman who couldn't even speak English. When interviewed on her hospital bed on what she thought should be done to the militants if they were caught, this poor, uneducated woman said as Christian who believed her Bible, she had forgiven and released them in her heart!


Unbelievable! Forgive those who forced you to kill your child? Forgive those who raped you 19 times? Forgive those who killed your blood brother and murdered your relatives in a horrible manner? Yes! Yes! Yes and she did!

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been - William Golding

 But why do bad things happen to good people? Oh! I remember that Mandela as president, actually forgave those who had jailed him unjustly for 27 years! If you must forgave those who had jailed him unjustly for 27 years!

If you must make it to your LAND OF EVIDENCE this year, you are going to forgive lots of people at different junctures as you journey through plant earth because no matter how careful you are, people MUST hurt you. Those people you trust will betray you! Those who helped will repay you with evil! Men must lie against you! That is the pathway  of the great and the compulsory narrow road of the just!

 Always remember that FORGIVENESS is your gift to others but MOVING ON is your gift to yourself! Close with St Francis "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned" As 2017  begins, go and do likewise! This is your year!.

By Our Daily Manna 



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