By Betty Lynne Wolfson
Please take a moment to read a bit about our first day’s experience, here at The Border.
Every person, parents and their children, here in their encampment on the Border, were so warm, open, lovingly kind, and full of faith.
I spoke with a woman at the Medical Tent, this was only her second day in the camp. Her body held the look of total exhaustion, yet when she smiled at me her eyes lit up. She radiated, her face shown with a brightness I can only call faith, a faith I know exists, it was in every corner of this camp, a faith like I have never known, and may never know. When I asked her from where had she traveled, and when I told her I had lived, for a time, in her beautiful State of Chiapas, Mexico, she acknowledged, yes, a beautiful place from which to need to flee for safety. To come for a life, free from fear.
I had expected to feel more despondent, but so heartening is the pervasive ingenuity, perseverance, and faith, I am energized this morning to do more of what we came to do, help make things better for these asylum seekers, as they wait. It may be a book read, an art activity, a meal prepared, stories and smiles shared.
Betty Lynne