Judith Blair, 67, said she stared down the barrel of a handgun held by her attacker who broke into her Blue Hill Estates home, and said, "I forgive you, but you need to get out of my house."
In that moment, she said, the man shot her. The bullet grazed her left temple and she was still able to stand.
Blair said yesterday she told the two gunmen, who had ordered her and her son to lie on the floor and demanded money, to "leave in the name of Jesus".
Blair was then shot in the abdomen. The two suspects fled the home.
She said as she realized she was bleeding from her stomach, she told her 14-year-old grandson to call an ambulance.
Marvin Blair, 34, Judith's son, was also shot in the abdomen during the home invasion last month.
Asked whether she feared death as she was bleeding on the floor, Blair said she did not because her life was and has always been in God's hands.
She recalled the events of February 11, which she said have not discouraged or defeated her, but will lead her to be a spokesperson for victims.
"I looked the gunman in the eye and told him, 'I forgive you, but you need to get out of my house and go because I am not getting down'," Blair told The Nassau Guardian.
"And I ushered them out of my house as he shot me. And I saw him run up the hill and I knew that God was going to take care of me.
"And if he would forgive himself there is hope for him."
Blair, a former College of The Bahamas lecturer for decades, attended a presentation at the college's Oakes Field campus yesterday.
Despite her recent brush with death, Blair said she does not feel distressed or fearful of a future attack.
"I would like to meet the people, who came into my home to violate me, and let them know I love them, I forgive them and it is okay," she said.
"If they would forgive themselves, there is hope for them."
Blair and her son, Peter Blair, a PhD candidate in Applied Economics at Wharton University of Pennsylvania, said good things have come out of the incident.
"I looked at the outpouring of love, heard that the entire Bahamas was praying for me, the flowers, the gifts, the support and my entire family around me -- all my children came home -- and I saw nothing but good coming out of the situation," she said.
"I am in no way afraid. People ask me would I go back to my house and I say that is my house, no one is going to run me out of my house."
Peter Blair said the support from the wider community as his family recovered from the incident has been amazing.
"Just as a family it has been a very unifying experience too," he said.
"And as my brother Tim said, we are not afraid. We are not afraid. This is where we live."
Judith Blair said no amount of police patrols can heal The Bahamas, but Bahamians must show compassion to criminals, who are in need of love, hope and employment.
She said she would like to meet with Prime Minister Perry Christie to discuss her thoughts on crime.
She urged other victims of violent crime to trust God and to learn the power of forgiveness, adding that it is the only way to move on.
"We must forgive," she said. "If we do not forgive those who have wronged us we cannot move forward.
"And we cannot see what is in store for us if we focus on the bad.
"When I look at what happened to me, some say it is a tragedy, but I say no. It is an opportunity for a turnaround in this nation, and for God to be glorified."

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