I was first introduced to Brooke Fraser by my sweet friend Aimee. We met, Aimee and I, via a business relationship and discovered we had similar heart interests! She shared this song, and the artist, with me shortly after my first trip to Kenya (and to Africa). So you can imagine that my heart was already in a very softened (okay it was complete mush) state and when I watched this video I bawled and bawled and bawled. But here I am three years later, with a second trip to Kenya listed on my passport, and still my heart echoes this song and the message it is meant to convey. It doesn't hurt that Brooke Fraser is A-MAZING. I mean her voice just stirs my soul.
Albertine is based on Brooke's own journey to Rwanda, Africa and the things and people she was allowed to interact with through God's design and grace. Who you interact with on a daily basis is by God's design. Stop and think about that. It's true. Sometimes those interactions are tough but they can be used to refine your character through your choices of responses, etc. Sometimes those interactions are life changing and can lead you in a different direction or confirm the direction you are walking in. Sometimes those interactions are joyful and can be meant to simply put a smile on your face and heart and an appreciation for life.
Albertine is also a record of Brooke's personal response to God's call to action and also a challenge to us to action. When you have been invited to see something then you are held responsible for what to do with that feeling or action that it provokes. Shying away from those call to actions dishonor the memories of others, devalues the work of some, and places us in positions of disobedience before the Creator. Not to mention if we continually ignore calls to action then we are ignoring the call to strengthen our characters.
"I am on a plane across a distant sea but I carry you in me...." Oh how my heart echoes this sentiment! Not one day, NOT ONE, doesn't go by that I do not stop and think of my Kenyan family. They were knit into the fabric of my heart and I carry them with me.
Albertine
Albertine is based on Brooke's own journey to Rwanda, Africa and the things and people she was allowed to interact with through God's design and grace. Who you interact with on a daily basis is by God's design. Stop and think about that. It's true. Sometimes those interactions are tough but they can be used to refine your character through your choices of responses, etc. Sometimes those interactions are life changing and can lead you in a different direction or confirm the direction you are walking in. Sometimes those interactions are joyful and can be meant to simply put a smile on your face and heart and an appreciation for life.
Albertine is also a record of Brooke's personal response to God's call to action and also a challenge to us to action. When you have been invited to see something then you are held responsible for what to do with that feeling or action that it provokes. Shying away from those call to actions dishonor the memories of others, devalues the work of some, and places us in positions of disobedience before the Creator. Not to mention if we continually ignore calls to action then we are ignoring the call to strengthen our characters.
"I am on a plane across a distant sea but I carry you in me...." Oh how my heart echoes this sentiment! Not one day, NOT ONE, doesn't go by that I do not stop and think of my Kenyan family. They were knit into the fabric of my heart and I carry them with me.
Albertine
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