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Prayer of the Children
By Mark Roth on December 7, 2007 at 2:37 pm
I like this song. Really like it, in fact.
As a father, it makes my heart ache.
But I still like it, especially how Sharon Singers sing it. (If you click that link, you can then choose to hear them sing it.)
Anyway, over at Wikipedia I learned . . .
| The words and music were written by Kurt Bestor and it was arranged by Andrea S. Klouse for a four-part men’s choir.
Bestor 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.” |
I also used the photo above in this piece I wrote on March 30, 1999: Kosovo and Serbia: A Case Study Regarding Christians in the Military.
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