children to come unto me,” Jesus
said, “for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven.” So if a child is praying in
English? To White Jesus? That’s a
powerful combination right there.
Whenever I prayed, my
grandmother would say, “That
prayer is going to get answered. I
can feel it.”
Women in the township always
had something to pray for—money
problems, a son who’d been
arrested, a daughter who was sick, a
husband who drank. Whenever the
prayer meetings were at our house,
because my prayers were so good,
my grandmother would want me to