Do you like this?
As for us, we like this garden very much.
I hope you like it too.
Myself and your mother want you to be happy here.
We praise you, Eternal God...
Sovereign of the universe, who creates the fruit of the vine.
Why does this family
get to have a god?
But my family did not.
It is not God
who killed your family.
I have something for you.
Do you know what this is?
We had one growing in our garden.
My mother called it papaya flower.
This flower resembles papaya.
Its real name is...
the flame tree.
Can you help me grow it in the garden?
So that it will remind you of your old garden
anytime you look through the window.
When I came to this country,
I was a young man,
but my heart was like yours.
I was sad...
angry...
and scared.
When I met Miriam...
I didn't know we would fall in love.
We started as friends.
Or... she tried to be my friend.
But I wasn't interested.
We worked together at the World Relief Fund.
I was so sad...
that we couldn't help...
all of the people.
Miriam told stories from the Old Testament.
About people who had so many troubles,
slaves who wanted to leave the desert.
They had no food...
nor water.
But in all of this,
God came to their rescue and helped them.
I used to make fun of God.
I was just like you.
I didn't believe there was a God who can do wonders.
Then...
my life... started to improve.
The pain in my heart also started to fade away.
I started to think about the slaves in the desert.
I thought...
it was their will,
their faith in each other,
that made God possible in the desert.
Maybe...
we make God.
God does not make us.
Kwesi. Me and Miriam...
are not asking you to believe in what we believe in.
Also, we are not asking you...
to think about us as your mother and father.
We are telling you the important things
so that you can follow and choose...
when you want.
This tree was not made for this weather.
We will use fertilizer
with nitrogen.
We will also add phosphorous and potassium.
But it still may not grow.
The tree may not survive.
Can she say a blessing?
Take pleasure in your land.
Bestow abundance upon it from the goodness of your loving kindness.
And strengthen the hands of all who toil
in the labor of the holy earth
and make her desolate areas fruitful.
And make her desolate areas... fruitful.
And may their work be favored by you.