An inspiring story
Back to the land of his captors
Would you go back to the people who hurt you most?
Patrick was sixteen when raiders carried him off as a slave to Ireland. For six years he herded animals in cold and hunger, and there he learned to pray, up to a hundred times a day, he wrote. Then a voice in a dream said: 'Your ship is ready.' He walked some 300 km to the coast and escaped. Back home, he dreamed again: the Irish calling, 'We beg you, come and walk among us once more.' Why go back? Because in those lonely years he had found God there, and he wanted his captors to find him too.
Patrick spent the rest of his life in Ireland. Forgiveness turned the land of his slavery into his life's work.
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.Matthew 5:44