simple joy
One of my clients from Rwanda saw snow for the first time today (and she's in her 50s). It was so fun to watch her look at the winter in amusement at the flurries and pick out a coat from our coat drive rack.
This is one of those clients that tugs on my heart more than others. Not because she's very gregarious, warm or talkative, but because she has this inner strength, determination and devout faith, even in the midst of depression. Because of her husband's outspokeness about the injustices Still taking place in Rwanda and the government targeting him for it (jail for several years and torture before getting out and then escaping to the states), she and her children have been subject to many threats by the police. Now, she has joined her husband here (she got a visa through a church- how I'm not exactly sure) and they are each applying for asylum, but with much red tape to get through and even interferance from the Rwandan Embassy who labels her husband as a fugitive. (We don't believe that here.)
Her children are now in hiding in a neighboring country with a Pastor's family, and I can't imagine how excruiating it is for her to simply be here and wait while legal proceedings drag on. While in Rwanda, she worked for 15 years with a well known human rights/charity organization, uniting family members that were separated during the genocide in 1994. Now, she is the one waiting to be reunited with family.
This is one of those clients that tugs on my heart more than others. Not because she's very gregarious, warm or talkative, but because she has this inner strength, determination and devout faith, even in the midst of depression. Because of her husband's outspokeness about the injustices Still taking place in Rwanda and the government targeting him for it (jail for several years and torture before getting out and then escaping to the states), she and her children have been subject to many threats by the police. Now, she has joined her husband here (she got a visa through a church- how I'm not exactly sure) and they are each applying for asylum, but with much red tape to get through and even interferance from the Rwandan Embassy who labels her husband as a fugitive. (We don't believe that here.)
Her children are now in hiding in a neighboring country with a Pastor's family, and I can't imagine how excruiating it is for her to simply be here and wait while legal proceedings drag on. While in Rwanda, she worked for 15 years with a well known human rights/charity organization, uniting family members that were separated during the genocide in 1994. Now, she is the one waiting to be reunited with family.
posted by jdances | 18.1.07
1 Comments:
Your posts always remind me to think about what God's doing in the larger world... not just in my tiny suburban perspective here near the Bubble O.o So thanks for the updates! It's truly awesome to see God using you through your job :) I almost feel like that's rare -- to know that God is showing you stuff through your career, which always kinda seems separate (and is, in the world's eyes) from the rest of our lives, but shouldn't be.
-Ed
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