A Growing Hope

Sojourners Magazine

As I worked, I piqued the curiosity of neighbors. I talked with ones I knew and those I met for the first time . . . A landlord lent me his wheelbarrow. A four-year-old brought a packet of seeds to plant sunflowers in the pollinator patch. Tree by tree, neighbor by neighbor, my sense of hope grows.

Header illustration for the Living the Word column of Sojourners Magazine, with accompanying text by Celeste Kennel-Shank. Acrylic paint on paper with digital coloring.

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