prayers of the children

when we lived in farmington, new mexcio (1989-1995)

a young friend of the family gave us a tape of music. the music was Enya (who i had never heard at that time)

and a song "Prayer of the Children", a song he said his uncle helped record.

i absolutely loved this tape and played it over and over everyday. that tape has been misplaced, and this song lost for years now.

today brittni called and asked me to check a friend's blog and tell her where she had heard this song, and there it was......THAT song "Prayer of the Children"....it was jessamyn that actually remembered the details of how we came to have it.

it was, to me, like being reunited with an old friend and brought tears listening to it again. however, since it had images added to it, i looked up the story behind it and here it is:

Kurt Bestor ( who wrote the music and the words) served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Serbia during the 1970s. This song was written years later when the Yugoslav wars broke out in the early 1990s as a tribute to the country's children. Meridian Magazine described it this way:
Later when war broke out, and Yugoslavia splintered into warring factions with Serbs, Croatians and Bosnians hating and butchering each other, Kurt's heart was aching. What came to him--haunted him--were the faces of the children he had known. "Those children didn't hate anybody," he said. "They didn't care about who owned the land, or who had the power or the money. These are adult neuroses. They just wanted to have a mom and dad and a place to play."

after knowing the meaning......and seeing the images.....

it will be beautiful, but i will hear it differently