Consistency is sometimes a value that is lost in our society. I think it could be better referred to as “keeping your word”. We make promises very lightly: we say we will get together with an old friend when we may not actually intend to, we say we will show up at an event just […]

When Danielle was seven, she believed she could fly. Throwing herself into the air with all limbs flailing, she would inevitably always land with a thud, leaving bruised knees and elbows. In her own words, she described it as, “The feeling that even for just one ‘Mississippi’ I could be surrounded by nothing but the […]

When Absolute decides to build a house for a family through our Hero Holiday program, there are two things we need to make it happen:

someone who knows what they are doing
someone who is willing to learn how to be a part of making it happen

And then, after you have secured those two items, jump in […]

Grade 9 can be difficult and the challenges can seem endless: cliques, changing emotions, and moments of self doubt. But for Katie, grade 9 wasn’t only difficult, it was practically unbearable.
Her earliest memories revolve around pain. The pain of childhood abuse, a broken home, and the insecurity of poverty punctuate all the other memories she […]

Humanitarian:

having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.
a person actively engaged in promoting human welfare and social reforms, as a philanthropist.
a person who professes ethical or theological humanitarianism.

They are everywhere I look:
They are the Davids and the Frantzos in Haiti. The ones who live and work among the world’s […]

The bridge to get there was made of long strips of thin bamboo, loosely wired together. It was precariously laid across a rushing, muddy stream full of garbage and whatever else you can imagine, and I felt torn between taking in my surroundings and trying to focus on not falling through the bamboo to the […]

One moment is all that it takes. One moment where you breathe in, breathe out, and realize that life is never going to be the same. From that point forward, things are irrevocably beyond your control and you are waiting for the world to stop spinning - only it never does. The sun rises and […]

We meet a lot of people - too many to be able to recount or remember. Some of them are with us for a good time, some are with us for a long time and some of them leave an imprint on us for a lifetime. Cassie is like that for me.
There is something very […]

Miracles are cool. I don’t mean the Jesus-in-a-Taco style of miracle or the miracle that comes when you order the Holy Water from the televangelist with a bad hairpiece that’s on TV at 3:00 AM. I mean the kind of miracle that makes you wonder and marvel at the incredible gift […]

I am totally addicted to seeing people happy. I know, I know - happiness is an emotion, joy is a state of being, blah blah blah. But doesn’t it feel good to be happy? To feel that rush of good endorphins bubble up in your stomach, threatening to make you giggle or burst out laughing […]