60/12/2010 ***Have you ever wondered what forgiveness looks like? It looks like this woman, Immaculée Ilibagiza. When I read her book, "Left to Tell" in March, I had no idea that I would get to hear her speak in just a couple of months. She is a survivor of the Rwanda genocide. She hid in a tiny bathroom with seven other women for 91 days while so many of the people of her country were hunted and slaughtered. At times during this ordeal, she could hear her name being called as the men on the other side of the wall searched for her to kill her. Most of her family was murdered by people she had known and trusted all of her life. After the genocide, she even saw the remains of some of her murdered family members. What was going on in that bathroom? Forgiveness. Even as they hunted for her, she asked God for the grace to forgive them. She knew in her heart that they were good men overtaken by an evil. And to see her speak now...there is such joy in her face. It simply radiates from within. This is the face of forgiveness. Has somebody hurt you? Do you find it difficult to see the goodness in that person? Ask God to give you the grace to see the goodness and to forgive. Maybe your face will radiate like Immaculée's. If forgiveness can look like a genocide survivor, it can look like you.