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.

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."

My Life Is A Story Written By God

Today is another day. I am writing this because another deposit of life has been made into my life's account. It is by grace that I have lived to be where I am today. I therefore have every reason to be happy for I know that The Lord My Saviour and Redeemer still has a purpose in me being alive.

My life is a story written by God . I don’t know exactly how my friends came in to my story , but I hope you all will be there in it until God writes my last chapter .

I am truly thankful for the friends that I have in my life. Each one of you has a special purpose in my life.  I appreciate you and very grateful that you are my friends.

There are times when I am feeling down and it is your duty to cheer me up.

Because you are my friend I take it that I can share my highs and lows with you.

I know I can drop all my walls around me and be myself with you.

Thank you for being such wonderful people in my life.

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Manifest Your Monday With Monday Affirmations

The very thought of heading for a long week can be quite depressing, stressful & distasteful. If one tends to wear out deadlines, then the feeling is even more worse. Monday blues are associated with stress, anxiety and gloominess caused by an intense feeling of tiredness and discomfort to resume one business activities.

Arthur Mutambara brings to you affirmations to give you the jolt you need to overwhelm your Monday.

Manifest Your Monday With Monday Affirmations

Monday

1. Today I launch a wonderful week with a marvelous Monday!
2. Monday rocks! It is one seventh of my life and I make the most of it!
3. Monday is MY day! It’s my opportunity to begin anew!
4. Monday is MY day! I’ll have this week off and running in no time!
5. After rejuvenating and enjoyable weekend, I am ready to get back on the road to my dreams!
6. My thoughts this morning are forming the Monday I experience. I am creating an awesome Monday!
7. I am mentally and physically prepared to get my week off to a fantastic start this Monday!
8. Monday sets the tone for my whole week and I make it count!
9. Monday is always MY day! It’s my springboard to an awesome week!
10. My Mondays are always the fast start that sets up my strong finish on Friday!

Follow your bliss. Experience your bliss. Become your bliss.

The Boy Next Door: The Importance Of Communication

After almost a year of trial, I finally threw caution to the wind and decided to speak to the boy who lives next door. He is not what I thought he was after all. He is a only a boy trying to come to terms with the realities of life. He is just a boy. I have learnt the importance of communication.

The  Importance Of Communication File Photo

Everyday for the past year, I lived a life of suspicion. Always thinking the boy next door was out to do harm to me and my property. Ever since the boy moved in, my mind was always suspicious of everything about him. I would monitor all his movements and record them in the diary of my mind. In my mind I built a database of everything suspicious about the boy. I always viewed the boy as rebellious. Every perceived characteristic that I picked out from the boy influenced my thoughts and attitude towards the boy.

When my red rose flower was stolen sometime back, he was my first suspect. I never found enough evidence to convince myself that he was the one responsible for the theft of my beloved flower. My investigative instinct helped me gather important information about his name and background. I googled for as much information as possible about the boy next door. In a way I did a thorough job in searching all the social networks just to confirm my unknown fears.

It was after I had gathered all the relevant information that I yesterday called his name over my wall. He politely answered and we started a conversation that changed my general perception of him and other people around me. In short the boy revealed to me that he had come to live with his uncle whilst trying to look for a job to turn him around. I am generally a talkative person and so we spoke for a good three hours until I was called in to attend to some tasks that I had set aside the previous day.

Many times in life we create in our minds models of people we like and don't like. We fail to afford the power of the ability communicate with people a chance. When I spoke to the boy next door I was even shocked that the tone of his voice was not what I had thought it to be.

I have learnt that in life, everyone has a person next door. We become suspicious of people that we don't understand. Sometimes we label them as potential danger to our minds and as such every action they do is a perceived potential harm.

I now regard the boy next door as my son. He is only a boy trying to navigate the terrains and realities of life.

Discover a boy or girl next door and have a conversation today. Learn the skill to communicate with people around you.

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).