Forgiveness is refusing to give people the power to hurt you any more than they already have – that’s what Antoine Leiris taught me.

It’s  12 : 47 PM on day 1803 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray,  read Romans 10, publish my Disability of the Day feature, learn one new thing  –Egress [e·gress] n. The action of going out of or leaving a place. “The company’s egress procedures.”– have breakfast, make sandwiches for the kids in our sisi’s (housekeeper’s) neighborhood with sisi’s  help as part of  Virginia’s Sandwich Run – (thank you sisi for all your help today) – and hang out with my sister (she’s back from varsity for summer break)

Yesterday I watched “Paris attacks: “I won’t give you the gift of hating you”” – Antoine Leiris’s message to the terrorists who killed his wife in the Paris Attacks – I was so moved by the strength of this man and inspired by his refusal to be changed by this horrible thing that happened in his life. Watch “Paris attacks: “I won’t give you the gift of hating you”” below: