Summary Of Immaculee's 'Left To Tell'

Left to Tell is the survival story of a Rwandan Tutsi, Immaculee Ilibagiza. Immaculee shares the power of faith in God as she describes the physical, mental, and specifically spiritual obstacles she faced in the 1993 Rwandan genocide. Rwanda consists of three tribes, the rare pygmy Twas, the minority Tutsis, and the majority Hutus. Hutu extremists turned on their Tutsi neighbors after the country’s president Habyarimana’s plane was shot down. After 100 days of slaughter, the death toll climbed to 800,000. Instead of turning her back on God and blaming Him for allowing such suffering to envelope her life like many of her friends did, Immaculee embraced prayer and meditation. She chose to fill her life with God’s light rather than the devil’s darkness. She came to understand why evil was permitted to roam freely in the world, while she was trapped and hiding. God did not create evil and suffering, humans did, as ramifications of falling for Satan and turning away from Him in the …show more content…
Those that Immaculee encountered during and after the genocide were inspired by the light of God she carried around with her. She followed the Lord’s calling and motivated people to shake off their own demons, accept God’s love, and follow Him. “He left me to tell my story to others and show as many people as possible the healing power of His love and forgiveness” (Ilibagiza 209). God uses ordinary people to carry out his extraordinary plans. Her humbling strength, endurance, and consistent devotion to God shone throughout the story. Her experiences molded Immaculee into a leader in her faith and an inspiration to those around her. God is joyous when people turn away from the devil 's temptations. All that He desires is to love and for His creations to love in return. However, “love always involves a choice” (Bible Gateway), and humans, judgment’s clouded by the devil, often choose to