My Little Donkey
We were sitting around a bunch of tables which had been shoved together to make a giant rectangle. Pastors, lay leaders, and a little group of three young people with their pastor from El Salvador. It was a meeting - in the Salvadoran Lutheran Church it would be called a micro-region meeting; in our city it is called a cluster meeting. It is just a few weeks before Christmas. We share a warm lunch of ham, herbed rice, greens, and roasted vegetables from an unusual December harvest from our church gardens. We go around the table doing introductions. "Say your name and the first line of your favorite Christmas song." A few groans emerge when we suggest we sing the first lines...but once the first strain of "Silent Night" is sung, we are all in. This is fun. The young man from El Salvador is 15. He is pretty shy. It is his turn. Without hesitation, he busts out a lively rendition of a song we do not recognize. " Con mi burrito sabanero voy camino de