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The provided excerpt, titled \"Expect Miracles,\" recounts Immaculée Ilibagiza’s experience during the Rwandan genocide, describing hiding from death squads, surviving through prayer, and later responding to devastation without being consumed by hatred. It follows her journey from refugee despair to renewed hope, grounded in faith and the belief that prayers bring guidance, protection, and unexpected openings. 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Ston………………………36  \nMy Two-Second Miracle, Beverly F Walker…………  \n44  \nReflections of Hope in the Snowstorm,  \nValaree Terribilini Brough……………  \n………………………48  \nSoda Miracles, Sandy Novotny…………  \n…………………54  \nA Precious Mess, Beth Saadat………………………………………………61  \nMeet Our Contributors…………………  \n…………………69  \nMeet Amy Newmark………  \n…………………………73  \n# Expect Miracles\n\nMiracles happen to those who believe in them.~Bernard Berenson  \nuring the Rwandan genocide of 1994more than a million people were mur-dered in three months;by the graceof God,I was not one of them.At the  \ntime I was a twenty-four-year-old university stu-dent visiting home on Easter vacation when thelong-brewing tribal hatred in my African home-land erupted into an unspeakable slaughter ofinnocents.When the killers arrived at our door-step,my dad sent me running to a neighboringpastor for protection.  \nFor the next ninety-one days I cowered in a  \nhidden,tiny bathroom with seven other terrifiedwomen while rapists and murderers relentlesslyhunted for us.I opened my heart to God and prayednight and day that He spare my life and also,sparemy soul,and not allow the hatred Ifelt for the killersto turn my heart to stone.  \nGod heard my prayers and answered them.  \nWhenever the death squads ransacked the pas-tors house searching for us,God blinded them fromseeing the bathroom door and finding us.  \nThree months later,the genocide was over andI came out of hiding.I was emaciated,but alive.Myheart was sad and I wanted the killers brought tojustice,but I wasn't filled with poisonous hatred.On the contrary,to my amazement,I was ready tolove and forgive.  \nWith those prayers answered,I thought I'd usedupa lifetime allotment of miracles.But I was wrong.  \nOutside the bathroom,the world I had knownwas gone.My once breathtakingly beautiful homelandhad been transformed into a grotesque landscape  \nof death and destruction.All my neighbors andmy immediate family,with the exception of onebrother who was living abroad,had been viciouslymurdered.My childhood home,which my fatherhad built with his own hands as a wedding gift tomy mother,had been burned to the ground.All Isaw was the smoldering ruins of burnt out housesand a countryside strewn with corpses.  \nI had gone from being a happily pampered,onlydaughter to a starving orphaned refugee.  \nWith no money,food or a single friend left alive,Imade my way toward the Rwandan capital of Kigaliin hopes of finding work,but there was none.Nostores or businesses were open,there was virtuallyno power,no buses were running,there was preciouslittle clean water to drink,the roads were","cbCaimG5jzKVCZQn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimG5jzKVCZQn","pdf",2934716,82,"English","# Expect Miracles\n## Immaculée Ilibagiza’s prayers during the genocide\n## Survival and transformation of grief into forgiveness\n## Refugee life and the struggle to find work","[{\"question\":\"What is the \\\"Expect Miracles\\\" story about?\",\"answer\":\"It recounts Immaculée Ilibagiza’s survival during the 1994 Rwandan genocide and how prayer carried her through hiding, fear, and later devastation.\"},{\"question\":\"How did prayer help her during the genocide?\",\"answer\":\"She describes praying night and day for her life and soul, and witnessing what she interprets as protection from death squads.\"},{\"question\":\"What challenge did she face after coming out of hiding?\",\"answer\":\"She found her homeland destroyed and her life upended, with no money, food, or friends, leading her to search for work and hope through faith.\"}]","Chicken Soup for the Soul: When Prayers Are Answered - Expect Miracles | PDF",1789974381,126]