Plus I have no doubt that their garden is also where my grandparents dreamed—for a better life of equality for their grandchildren and future generations. As people rooted in their faith, they probably did a lot of praying here as well, that God would deliver us all to prosperity and peace beyond this plot of land.
Deborah L. Parker, Tools to Cultivate the Promised Land: Working Wisdom from My Grandparents' Garden
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