Daughter of the Tree: Walking in the Woods with Sojourner Truth

Daughter of the Tree is about Sojourner Truth's spiritual formation in nature. It is a mystical look at her childhood based on the facts that at the age of 11 years old she created an outdoor prayer house made of willows and gathered herbs in the forest along the Hudson River in New York.Sojourner Truth says in her biography that "it was a wild, out of doors life that suited me well for the time".We hope that children will be inspired to connect to nature and take charge their spiritual journey like Sojourner did. We hope modern day liberators are equally inspired to blend spirituality and nature to maintain personal equilibrium.The refrain in the book: "if it matters to the tree, it matters to me" is a wisdom saying as well as a reference to Sojourner's father being nicknamed "the tree". The wisdom saying refers to the symbiotic relationship humans have with trees; as well as the spiritual concept of the tree of life found in Ghanian and Christian culture. Since Sojourner's parents were devout Christians and from the Ghanian culture, Rev Dele imagines how these worldview may have blended in a way that speaks to seven generations. Read more