You are.

 This is what the beauty of life is. This is the true reflection of who you are. Make it something beautiful.

When your daughter goes missing…

If you’ve watched the movie “Taken” then you may imagine what it feels like for a parent to have their child taken from them, sold into human trafficking and the desperate desire to do everything in their power to get their child back.  Today I share my blog with Glendene Grant, a close friend and…

Time to Act

Canada can do better for prostituted women. On Monday, March 26 2012, the Ontario Court of Appeal released their ruling on a landmark prostitution case that will have huge implications on the future of prostitution, sex trafficking and violence against women in our society. To read more of the details, please follow this link.  The…

In honour of Yvonne.

I lost a friend today. I can’t find the words to describe how beautiful and precious her spirit was.  Life wasn’t easy for her but she’d find a way to smile in the midst of it. She knew the words to every song on the Top 40 and could out dance us on a good…

The words of 13.2

I am a public speaker. So it goes without saying that I love words. I notice them. I love to listen to the way that people use them, the way they weave together to create something beautiful and I love to feel the weight they carry and the emotions that they hold within. Yet as…

A year ago today…

A year ago today, we were drenched by rain and marching through the streets to Langley alongside 300+ other freedom fighters to declare that we will not tolerate the exploitation of human beings! It’s amazing to look back over the last year and see how much has happened since then! Thanks to everyone who walked…

Love, move me.

♥ Awareness is where we start but it must not be where we end. For good intentions to achieve the status of true love, it must evolve into effective action and it must start with our own hands, our own feet and our own voices as we walk together as family and amplify the voices…

The things I think about at 1:36am

I don’t have all the answers. I’m learning more every day of this journey. I am simply a girl who is crazy in love with the heart of God. Captivated by the way that He loves the unlovely, never forgets the marginalized, fights for the oppressed and defends the “underdog”. I love the way that He…

“I am the 1%”

I pretend to be really tough but I know that I’m not as strong as I’d like to be. (I don’t think I’m fooling anyone either). I got a real wakeup call when I lived in Guatemala for part of the summer two years ago and realized that I’m not tough enough to be a…

Stop the Traffick

STOP THE TRAFFIK          BY: Gerard Kelly   I am a person, not a potato to be picked and packaged To be sent to market  to be sliced and diced,  Chopped up and ketchupped on the other side of the world,  I am human and I am not for sale.  I am a living conscience, not…

Beautiful Africa

From child soldiers to future leaders. From widowed women to radiant mothers. From orphaned children to loved by a community. When I speak about “adding to the beauty” in the world, Zulu- Uganda and the Watoto Family comes to mind. **We need to remember that the fight for true justice continues long after Joseph Kony…