The
refugees and asylum seekers fleeing violence in Honduras are much on my heart
these days. Through Project Via Crucis,
a Central Pennsylvania ministry of accompaniment with the churches and people
of El Salvador, I was privileged to participate in five PVC delegations during
the early to mid-1990s. Walking and
worshiping with the faithful, oppressed people of Central America irrevocably
changed my understanding and perspective. This blog post and the video it
references are my response to the present day suffering of Hondurans and to the
terrible misinformation about them that our government officials want us to
believe.
From
photographs of El Salvador and other meaningful locations I have created a
video slideshow set to the song “Counterpoint to Wonder” by Carolyn
McDade. The song, with its challenge to
each of us to choose with whom we stand, grew out of Carolyn’s own experiences
in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Here is the
link to view the video on YouTube: Counterpoint to Wonder. What follows are thumbnail images of the slides with
identification of location and relevance to the words of the song. I invite readers to view the video first,
then return to this blog post to learn about the images, then view the video a
second time, keeping this information in mind.
