I’m quite
familiar with Brooke Fraser’s beautiful, almost haunting, song, “Albertine”,
which is based on her visit to Rwanda. Yesterday,
Gary Black had posted the music video of this song on his blog, and
unexpectedly my eyes watered.
Granted,
I recently had read an article in the New York Times on the ongoing drought
east Africa and how hard it’s hitting northern Kenya. Images of the Turkana people – an elderly
woman so weak and parched she couldn’t drink on her own – stirred my own
memories of walking through the Lodwar desert.
Now that I have seen I am responsible / Faith without
deeds is dead. . .
I am [now at home] / Across a distant sea / But I carry
you in me
Where
Brooke sings, “Rwanda”, I would list:
The Philippines,
China,
Kenya,
Uganda,
Tanzania,
India,
Ukraine,
Romania,
Guatemala,
Nicaragua.
. .
And other
nations I have yet to meet someday.
