The Weight of the Wheelbarrow
In 2019, a community garden in East Nashville nearly shut down. The soil was contaminated, the fence was broken, and most of the original volunteers...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Galatians 6:1-16.
In 2019, a community garden in East Nashville nearly shut down. The soil was contaminated, the fence was broken, and most of the original volunteers had drifted away. But a retired schoolteacher named Dorothy Clemmons refused to let it die. Every Saturday morning, she showed up with her wheelbarrow, hauling fresh topsoil one load at a time. Nobody helped at first.…
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