I recently finished a book by Immaculee Ilibagiza called Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwanda Holocaust. A friend recommended it to me forever ago and I finally found it available at the library here. I LOVED it. She said I would and was right. The book is about exactly what the title says. This young ladies entire family was killed during the Rwanda genocide of the early 90's. She hid in a tiny bathroom with seven other women for month's and lived to tell her story. It was so inspiring and made me incredibly grateful for so many things, too many to list.
One day while I was in the middle of this book Tyler and I were complaining about something and I said, "At least we aren't being hunted and murdered, right?" He kind of laughed and said, "What?!" I explained to him what was happening in the book I was reading and my comment made much more sense. Now, I think that phrase to myself when that guy won't call me back about a job when he said he would or when we have to buy new tires...again. I say it out loud to Tyler when he yells at the driver who cut him off or when he worries about not getting as many jobs as he wanted. I know it sounds kind of silly and it is, but it really helps us be more positive. Usually, we laugh about it because it sounds completely ridiculous, but in reality people around the world are being killed for no reason, and we are so grateful it's not us or our family and friends.
