March 22, 2016

On the other side
Barbed wire
Refugee camps
Lines for water and food
The kinship kindnesses
Of those in between
The dark realities
Death
Fears
Waiting for a welcome
Hidden in the shadows
Longing simply for a home
And safety for children and families
Are they not our human family?

- Barbara Schwarz, OP, whose gallery in the Ministry of Preaching Through the Arts of the Sisters of St. Dominic can be viewed at artafire.homestead.com