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Sustained by faith, they did not give up.<\/p>\n<p>Leymah\u2019s just published memoir, <em>Mighty Be Our Powers<\/em>, reminds me of what hard work such faith can be. Unflinchingly honest, she is unafraid of acknowledging her failings. She writes frankly about the abusive relationships she had with men, the loneliness she suffered separated from her children while she was fighting for peace. Time and again she cries out to God. At a very low moment during negotiations with the warlords, when nothing was being accomplished, she prayed, \u201cYou fooled me, God!\u201d Haven\u2019t we all felt that way?<\/p>\n<p>The whole idea of the campaign came from a dream she had. <em>Gather the women to pray for peace<\/em>, said a voice. Like Moses, she figured the job was for someone else. She didn\u2019t feel worthy. After all, she was living with a man who was married to another woman. \u201cIf God was going to speak to someone in Liberia, it wouldn\u2019t be to me!\u201d she thought. God, she found, can use all kinds of people, even the most imperfect ones. Like us.<\/p>\n<p>Even more compelling is to read about how her faith helped her when she was in an abusive relationship. At one moment, when working with refugees from Sierra Leone, she remembers a song she sang at church: <em>Count your blessings, name them one by one, and it will surprise you what the Lord hath done<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompared with these women I had many blessings. Yes, I lived in an abusive relationship, but I had two healthy children, a warm bed, a roof over my head. The understanding put a boundary on my own pain,\u201d she writes. Her healing was a long struggle, but when things were at their worst, she never stopped praying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany years ago, I crouched in despair,\u201d she writes, \u201cdressed in a torn nightgown, in the bathroom of the apartment I shared, and opened my Bible. \u2018God,\u2019 I said, \u2018give me a verse.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what I read: <em>O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw it as a promise\u2014and it was. It all came true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leymah\u2019s story is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/women-war-and-peace\/features\/women-war-peace-series-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PBS series <em>Women, War &amp; Peace<\/em><\/a>, starting October 11. The segment about Liberia, \u201cPray the Devil Back to Hell\u201d airs on October 18.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/..\/hope-and-faith\/prayer-warrior-regained-her-hope-liberian-peace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Leymah\u2019s <em>Guideposts<\/em> story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thrilled by today\u2019s announcement that Leymah Gbowee has been made one of the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2003 in Liberia she led thousands of women in protests against the war that killed 250,000 people. 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