I just finished reading the utterly captivating book, Left
To Tell, by Immaculée Ilibagiza, one of the few surviving Tutzi tribe
members who suffered an unspeakably cruel genocide in her country of
Rwanda. If her telling of the horrors
did anything to me concerning evil, the equally astounding presence of God
revealing Himself to her through miracle after miracle of escape was nothing
less than an Epiphany-kind of revelation. Through her fidelity in prayer and
silence, her trust in nothing but God, her Savior revealed Himself in the
darkness, at the last minute, blinding the enemy to the hunted Tutzis, sending
someone to help in the nick of time or giving Immaculée an amazing gift of
love, even for her would-be killers.
Anyone who has known God, has probably known God’s presence more in the
dark than anywhere else. So it was with
Immaculée and she would surely attest to the truth that it is in the dark where
God seems to visit most often. Is
Epiphany going on in our darkness? In
the darkness of our Church? Of our
world? I think so. Is God’s Light
shining through you too?
Renée
Domeier, OSB
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