In preparation for our journey to Rwanda, I read several books and viewed several movies and videos of Genocide accounts. Each account struck me to the core. When we arrived at the Genocide memorial, I saw clothing, remains, photographs, and the mass graves. All of this and a trip to Nyamata, just one of many locations throughout the country where mass killings occurred in a church building and surrounding community, and it is still nearly impossible for my head and heart to comprehend.
God did not intend that we would hate, envy, destroy (with word or act), judge, or kill one another. Yet I know we have all been guilty of these sins in whole or in part. I know we are all capable of such disrespect of God, ourselves and one another. There was a quote at the memorial by Ntagengwa Feresiyani that has rattled around inside of me, "If you knew me and you really knew yourself, you would not have killed me." I cannot know myself without knowing who I am in Christ and who God desires me to be.
Lord help me to grow nearer to you, until your reflection is seen through my life and the lives of my brothers and sisters in Christ, so others may come to know Jesus and we love, not destroy, one another.
God did not intend that we would hate, envy, destroy (with word or act), judge, or kill one another. Yet I know we have all been guilty of these sins in whole or in part. I know we are all capable of such disrespect of God, ourselves and one another. There was a quote at the memorial by Ntagengwa Feresiyani that has rattled around inside of me, "If you knew me and you really knew yourself, you would not have killed me." I cannot know myself without knowing who I am in Christ and who God desires me to be.
Lord help me to grow nearer to you, until your reflection is seen through my life and the lives of my brothers and sisters in Christ, so others may come to know Jesus and we love, not destroy, one another.
Clothing of Nyamata Victims
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