Husband of Woman Murdered in Paris Attacks Tells Terrorists: 'You Will Not Have My Hatred'

What would you do if you were to wake up to a reality that someone has mercilessly taken the life of your beloved one? It hard to accept and the pain may last forever. 

In the midst of the Paris attacks, a man lost his wife in the attacks and wrote a letter to the killers. From the letter we can derive a great lesson on how we too can handle handle hatred.

You Will Not Have My Hatred'

The husband of a woman murdered during the recent terror attacks in Paris, France reportedly wrote a letter to the extremists responsible for the attacks, calling the attackers "dead souls."

The man, Antoine Leiris, lost his wife, Hélène Muyal, during the Paris terror attacks that killed 129 people last Friday.

Muyal was one of the concertgoers attending an Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan concert hall.

"On Friday evening you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hatred," Leiris' letter, posted to Facebook,reads.

"I don't know who you are and I don't want to know, you are dead souls. If this God for whom you kill blindly made us in his image, every bullet in the body of my wife is a wound in his heart," the husband continued.

"So no, I will not give you the satisfaction of hating you. You want it, but to respond to hatred with anger would be to give in to the same ignorance that made you what you are," the letter adds.

The grieving man's viral letter comes after a video showing a father explaining the terror attack to his son went viral.

In the video, the preschool-aged boy is asking his father about why the terror attacks were committed and why people are laying flowers and candles in mourning.

The father explains to the boy that the flowers and candles are being laid "to remember the people who are gone yesterday."

This is an opportunity for us to learn not to live with hatred within our own lives.

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"OIL OR NO OIL"...How To Live With Your Neighbours,

Unlike prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa who prophesied abundant "OIL" deposits in Zimbabwe, I will be taking you through simple and humble tips on how to live with your neighbors. After all it is not the "OIL" that matters at the end of the day. It is the people around you who feel what you feel.

Popular Zim Dancehall Music Producer Dr Clarence (on the left) Is My Neighbor. We are Pictured Here Doing A Mushroom Trial Run At Home. 

I am grateful that I live with neighbors from different cultural background. Some are difficult but I still smile at them and I am glad to say I am in good books with them. I never look at my neighbors with suspicion. I know that I am also a neighbour in their eyes. Of course there are some who will always be difficult, but i do appreciate them anyway.

I thought it very reasonable to share with you what normally would be no writer's interest. It is tips on how to be a good neighbour and live in peace with your fellow neighbors.

Perform Small Acts Of Kindness,

Help your neighbour with their DIY. (Yes Its meant to be a Do It Yourself) But help them anyway. I regularly travel between the city and my farm. So I normally bring them compost and manure for their gardens. I help them with their gardening.

I also do have a lot of basic tools which I freely use together with my neighbors.

Greet Your Neighbors
Make an effort to always stop by to greet your neighbors and find out how they are doing. Do this with a smiling face knowing full well that you benefit for being friendly to people. Never underestimate the power of greeting a neighbour.

I have discovered that most people now don't even greet. They just wave and say things in their hearts. I encourage you to go out there and greet people around you. An open hand ready to help will find it easy to greet and shake hands.

What are the Benefits?
When your neighbors feel appreciated they will feel great. Out of good gestures can lifelong friendships be born. The whole reason why you are around your neighbors is on purpose. You are not there by mistake but by divine connection.

Do it More and regularly
Be kind to everyone around you. Do it for all your neighbors. In times of difficulties it pays to be friendly to everyone. This goes beyond religion. Love people naturally. Go beyond race, color or religion.

Be grateful for the neighbors you have. Remember you are also a neighbour!

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Effective Tools To Fight Unkindness

We all wish for the elusive ideal world where everyone is kind to one another. The level of kindness in humanity is fast dwindling into thin air. We are much more concerned about the ozone layer (which we don't quite fully understand) instead of focusing on the simple acts of kindness that could change this world.

When we are kind, we see the beauty in others.

Perform An Act Of Kindness Today.

Organisations such as Random Acts Of Kindness were formed to try and teach people to be kind towards each other.

But what is kindness? Kindness is defined as the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. This is a quality. A measure of excellence which in my opinion is learnt over a long period of time. It is a refinement of a person which I believe should be taught from very tender ages.
I found out that one of the ways in which we can learn kindness is to find ourselves in a place we've never been and where we don't know the language. This will definitely push us to the boundaries. We are reduced to simple persons who are prepared to learn to be friendly, generous and considerate. When I travelled away from my country for the first time, I found myself around people who spoke languages that I had no clue about. I did not understand anything about what they were doing and I was reduced to an effective listener. I knew that my life depended on effective listening and following instructions.
Putting ourselves in situations that open our eyes and minds is essential to human development.
It shatters stereotypes and leads us into the path of learning to be kind to one another.

Let us today start learning the art of being kind. I have used three words as per the dictionary definition to help us learn to be kind.

Friendliness
Learn to be friendly to someone you don't know. Teach your children and other people to be friendly. At times word of mouth is not enough to encourage people to be friendly. You have to take action to be friendly.

Generosity.
To be generous requires enjoyment of being free from meanness or smallness of mind. be selfless and share the little that you have with a stranger. I am not asking for money ladies and gentlemen. Even sharing of ideas and encouragement is generosity in itself. The joy of giving is enormous. When we freely give we empower ourselves to greater levels of possibilities.

Considerate
Let us all be careful not to inconvenience or harm others. We are all God creation and each one of us is on a special mission. We all have a special purpose. Sometime our minds gets clouded in intense competition of business and excellence and we forget to be considerate. When you encounter others always be humble.

I have always expressed myself to people around me that I am not in competition with anyone at all. I am on a special mission and one day when I am gone, I would desire to have left a name associated with kindness.

Always be kind and see the beauty in others.

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Born For The Sky

Here is a little story (of unknown origin) that helps to illustrate a difficulty that many people will face at some time in their life.

A man found an eagle's egg and put it in the nest of a barnyard hen. The eagle hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life, the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he thrashed his wings and flew a few feet in the air.

Born for the sky

Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong, golden wings.

The old eagle looked up in awe, "Who's that?" he asked. "That's the eagle, the king of birds," said one of the hens. "He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth - we're chickens."

So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that is what he thought he was.
My friend, you too were born for the sky. As a unique human being, you have, deep within yourself, a burning desire to achieve something with your life. But for many people, the reality is that they get so caught-up in the daily-grind of trying to make a living, that they never really discover that desire and so they end up living their entire lives like the "chicken"

What the "chicken" really needed was to discover that he really was an eagle; and then he would have been able to begin to learn how to fly (even eagles need to learn); and eventually he would learn how to soar.

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6 Wrong Ways To Leave A Church

I live in an area where churches are sprouting like mushroom. Obviously the new churches are getting their members from people leaving other churches. I have left a church before and really believe this article will help you should you ever make a decision to leave your church. It is interesting to note that there is a church every five hundred metres in any direction where I reside.

Some of the prophets and apostles founding these churches are aggressive in their search for members and will do anything possible to gain your trust at the expense of your integrity. 

Walter Magaya owns PHD Ministries

1. Don't leave mad.

If you are leaving because you are angry at the pastor or another member, you are proving your immaturity. Offense is never a reason to leave a church. Jesus told us to go to the person who offends us (Matt. 18:15). And Proverbs 19:11 says: "The discretion of a man defers his anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression." If you break a relationship every time you are offended, you will never grow up. Even if you are called to leave a church, you should never hold a grudge. Have the courage to face your offense and disarm it.

2. Don't leave and make threats.

Some people get so angry, they want to hurt the church when they leave. They want the pastor to suffer. One man told a pastor I know that he hoped the church would go bankrupt after he stopped tithing to it. (Instead, God sent other people whose donations more than covered the lost income!) Romans 12:19 says, "Beloved, do not avenge yourselves." Even if the pastor or church members are doing inappropriate things, it is not your job to punish them.

3. Don't leave secretly.

When I was a boy, my mother taught me to say: "I enjoyed my meal. May I be excused?" when I finished eating. I was not allowed to leave the table without this announcement. A similar rule applies to leaving a church. It's rude to walk out with no explanation. Your pastor deserves to know why. You can write a letter, but it's better to say it in person—and to include some words of thanks for the way the church has helped you in the past.

4. Don't leave and talk about it on social media.

Proverbs 6:19 says God hates the one who "sows discord among brethren." Those are strong words! Some people actually think they are doing God's work by badmouthing a pastor, but they are digging a ditch that they will soon fall into. Keep your judgments to yourself. Posting the details of your rant on Facebook only shows how petty and self-centered you are.

5. Don't leave and try to take others with you.

If God is calling you to switch churches, that's fine. God will bless your transition if you do it in a healthy way. But if you try to stage a massive walkout, you are undermining God's authority. Don't allow the enemy to use you as an agent of division.

6. Don't leave and stay away from church altogether. 

I have often heard people say they feel God is leading them to leave a church to go elsewhere. But then I find out, after three years, that "elsewhere" really meant "nowhere." They quit church altogether! This is usually a sign of either deep disappointment or an unresolved conflict. You should never, ever give up on church. It is God's family. No Christian should live in isolation.

Obviously there are times when we must leave a church. It happens because of job transfers, family issues, ministry preferences, driving distance and many other reasons. And some churches have unresolved problems that make them unhealthy—and God does not necessarily require us to stay there. The Holy Spirit is the one who directs us to the right congregation.

Good pastors know they cannot hold onto people in a possessive way. Healthy churches remind people that the exit door is unlocked, and that members are free to go as the Holy Spirit leads. Deuteronomy 28:6 says: "You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out." Pastors should bless people who leave—but members should leave in a respectful way that invites that blessing.

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Actor Denzel Washington Says God 'Always Had Faith in Him'

Actor Denzel Washington has spoken about the experience in his walk with God, saying at a recent function God has always had faith in him.

Washington, has never been shy in expressing his Christian faith, made his comments at a recent function by the Church of God in Christ in St. Louis, Missouri.

Denzel Washington 

"There's never been a time where God didn't direct, protect, and correct me," Washington said at the annual event. "There may have been times where I was less than faithful to him, but he had faith in me."

Washington has spoken out about his Christian faith before, previously telling GQ Magazine that he reads the Bible daily, adding that such an activity isn't difficult, as he is the son of a pastor.

"I read from the Bible every day, and I read my Daily Word," Washington said, adding that his preacher father "wasn't a taskmaster, but there were certain things you couldn't do."

"He had his own church, and it was a long Sunday, because you had to be there all day," the actor added.

"Everyone I grew up with didn't have a father," he continued. "I had a father. My father was a decent man. He was a very spiritual man and a gentleman."

The well-known actor also made his faith known during a graduation ceremony speech at Dillard University back in May, where he told students to "put God first."

"Number one: Put God first," he said. "Put God first in everything you do."

"Everything you think you see in me, everything I've accomplished, everything you think I have – and I have a few things," said Washington. "Everything that I have is by the grace of God. Understand that. It's a gift."

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Billy Graham: Of Course God Cares About Politics

I feel pain when my religious brothers and sisters become so religious to an extent of leaving the politicians to decide the nature of political environment in which we exist. My heart bleeds when I hear prominent men and women of influence tell people who follow them that politics is for the politicians and not for the religious.

Does Politics matter to God? Read how Billy Graham responded to a question on Politics.

Be The Change You Want To See

Q: I know the elections are still many months away, but I'm already tired of all the name-calling and the overblown rhetoric. I've decided just to shut my mind to it all. I don't think God really cares about politics anyway, does He?

A: God cares about everything that affects our lives—including who our leaders will be and how our society will be governed. That's one reason why He commanded us to pray for our government and its leaders. Would He have told us to do this if He didn't care about good government? Of course not. The Bible says, "I exhort first of all that you make supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone, for kings and for all who are in authority" (1 Tim. 2:1-2).

Many readers probably can sympathize with your attitude toward too much rhetoric or too many ads. But don't let these blind you to the importance of our elections or cause you to shut your mind to our nation's need for honest and able leaders. Our system may not be perfect, but it's far better than that in many other nations.

Pray for our nation, especially as we look forward to elections a year from now. Pray especially that God will raise up leaders who will stand for justice and morality, and will seek God's will in all they do.

Pray too that our nation will turn to God, and that we may experience true spiritual revival. Increasingly we seem to be pushing God out of our lives as a nation—and this will have tragic consequences. Don't let this happen to you, but make sure of your commitment to Christ and seek to follow Him every day. The Bible's standard is still true: "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord" (Ps. 33:12).