Mustard Seed (Freedman/Johnson, #2)

by Laila Ibrahim

“That’ all most of us get—being a little drop of water. A few folks get to do somethin’ big like Mr. Lincoln an’ the Emancipation Proclamation. God givin’ you a chance to help a child know they own name. It a little somethin’, but it gonna matter to that one. We don’ get to pick how big our good gets to be, but each of us picks if we gonna do some good right where we are.”

“If enough people put their drop of water in the same place, then we can make a flower bloom . . . right in the middle of the desert.”