As I mentioned on Sunday we were looking at James as a part of the Community Bible Experience. One of the things that you cannot avoid in James is his insistence that it is simply not good enough to say and think the right things - it has to make a practical difference - it has to lead to us actually doing something. Faith without deeds is no faith at all.
Following the service on Sunday a link to the following song was posted on my Facebook wall, so I thought I'd share it here. This is a song called Albertine by Brooke Fraser.
In 2005 Brooke Fraser took a trip to Africa to immerse herself in Rwanda before visiting her sponsor children in Tanzania, as she is an advocate for child sponsorship. In this trip, she was so moved that she wrote the song Albertine about a young child (named Albertine), whom she met while in Rwanda.
I am sitting still
I think of Angelique
her mothers voice over me
And the bullets in the wall where it fell silent
And on a thousandth hill, I think of Albertine
there in her eyes what I don't see with my own
Rwanda
[CHORUS]
Now that I have seen, I am responsible
Faith without deeds is dead
now that I have held you in my own arms,
I cannot let go till you are
I am on a plane across a distant sea
But I carry you in me
and the dust on, the dust on, the dust on my feet
Rwanda
[CHORUS]
[BRIDGE]
I will tell the world, I will tell them where I've been
I will keep my word
I will tell them Albertine
[CHORUS]
I am on a stage, a thousand eyes on me
I will tell them, Albertine
I will tell them, Albertine.
