March 22, 2016
!["This is the Promised Land?!" (Barbara Schwarz, OP, of the Sisters of St. Dominic of Amityville, N.Y.)](http://dev.globalsistersreport.org/files/stories/images/2016-02-02This%20is%20the%20promised%20land%20%281000x771%29.jpg)
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 [1]