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A Juneteenth Thought

gregoryjoel

“God is making room in my heart for compassion: the awareness that where my life begins is where your life begins; the awareness that … your needs cannot be separated from … my needs; the awareness that the joys of my heart are never mine alone—nor are my sorrows. I struggle against the work of God in my heart; I want to be let alone. I want my boundaries to remain fixed, that I may be at rest. But even now, as I turn to [God] in the quietness, [God’s] work in me is ever the same… God is at work enlarging the boundaries of my heart.” – Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1953, 1981), 49

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I'm the Farm Manager for Opal's Farm - a non-profit5 acre urban farm in Fort Worth that grows for neighborhoods denied access to fresh, nutritious produce through food apartheid. I firmly believe that not only is healthy food a human right, it is also what brings us together Everyone has a seat at the table!

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  2. We’re doing well. Tomato season is going strong and we’ve been blessed with a lot of rain this Spring. I can’t believe how warm it is up north. We’re getting it this week though. It’s four days of hundred degree weather. I hope yours are doing well also.

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