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knew about it and warned Patrick. He told him he would receive a call to meet with my sister somewhere, and that is where some policemen would finish him off. The policeman told Patrick not to dare go alone. When it happened as the policeman had warned, Patrick was wise enough not to go. He waited for the policeman who had warned him, and when he arrived after work, they went together to the police station. He then urged the other policemen at the station to finish with Patrick quickly, as he had to go somewhere else with him. That is when they realized that they could not go on with their plot, and that is how Patrick’s life was saved. Having left my fathering-law's spiteful treatment, I fell from the frying pan right into the fire of my own people’s rejection. It was more or less the cruelest treatment I have ever received on this earth. I would understand Patrick’s family hating me because, well, I was from a different ethnic group, a group they abhorred like it was an abomination to get along with them. Secondly, I was not of their flesh and blood. However, for my own family to take the same route was agonizing. I faced so much rejection that I kept away from most family events. I was shut out, only attending my father’s re-burial ceremony. Since I was not wanted, segregated against and distrusted by everyone, I resorted to only one thing – silence. I had only one person to confide in, and that was God. I did not know that by victimizing myself, I was hurting myself more. I thought I was the only one suffering these injustices. I did not know that this was only turning me into a selfish person. With each passing day, my heart became as sensitive as a fresh wound and as hard as a stone. What the Bible says about humans is indeed true. If a mother can forget the baby nursing at her breast, and if a father can reject his own son, we understand why Jeremiah 17:5-6 states that, “Cursed is anyone who puts their trust in man…”. In this verse, God shows us that we are all made of the same material; therefore, if there should be any trust, it should be directed to a 52
higher and more deserving power. Having been made in God’s image, we are His children. The Holy Spirit Himself testifies to our spirits that we are God’s children – heirs of God and coheirs with Christ. If we suffer, we suffer with Him so that we can eventually be glorified with Him. 53
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PREFACE When I think about my roots
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was I able to know the true value o
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forgiveness of my sin. I thank God
Page 14 and 15: I started school, but because my fa
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Page 22 and 23: us. Now, here I was putting the liv
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Page 26 and 27: accomplish anything. Hiding was lik
Page 28 and 29: happening, this verse and many othe
Page 30 and 31: THE SADDEST DAY OF MY LIFE In accor
Page 32 and 33: When I landed in Kigali, my fears s
Page 34 and 35: If there was anything Patrick longe
Page 36 and 37: of my father in-law’s despicable
Page 38 and 39: We were stuck. We were not going an
Page 40 and 41: abominable thing and married from t
Page 42 and 43: surrounded by my family and my husb
Page 44 and 45: place we called home, with no runni
Page 46 and 47: eturned to pick Justine and I befor
Page 48 and 49: were poor and hopeless and for one
Page 50 and 51: starved and stayed in those oppress
Page 52 and 53: the moment when being dead definite
Page 54 and 55: Uganda because the social system in
Page 56 and 57: elatives. Many of these people were
Page 58 and 59: THE AFTERMATH I was formerly a Cath
Page 60 and 61: I neither had the papers no the exp
Page 62 and 63: to take charge of my life and move
Page 66 and 67: UNSHACKLED In 1997, three years aft
Page 68 and 69: foundation that is not based on the
Page 70 and 71: God’s voice and understand His wi
Page 72 and 73: When we realize that only God can f
Page 74 and 75: my thoughts than your thoughts,”
Page 76 and 77: Bible says we did not choose Him, b
Page 78 and 79: of the weight that Jesus had to bea
Page 80 and 81: towards me, and that He had saved m
Page 82 and 83: PEACE OF MIND AND THE BUMPY ROAD TO
Page 84 and 85: Romans 8:6-7 says, “The mind of a
Page 86 and 87: and that he was the only enemy I ha
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Page 90 and 91: seen, I decided to surrender to God
Page 92 and 93: peace. It is indeed something that
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