Conjuring Love Out Of Adversity

In Zimbabwe, there’s almost 90% unemployment. 
In South Africa, there are the remnants of apartheid.
 America has cancelled US AID to the poorest of poor, 
and is about to tax a huge lifeline: money that gets sent home. 
Conditions on this amazing continent are not easy, to say the least.



And through it all, to a person,
the Africans we’ve met, 
from so many countries on this patchwork continent, 
are kind and loving and generous.
No matter that we come from the west,
 or from comparative wealth, 
or have privileges most Africans will never have. 
Or are Americans, and thus, right now, part of the problem. 
Still, they create safety and comfort and love, 
for us and for everyone around them.