“Oh, God, You have given me a vacant soul, an untaught conscience, a life of clay.
Put Your big hands around mine and guide my hands as a teacher guides the childish fingers that hold their first crayon, so that everytime I make a mark on this life, it will be Your mark.
When my hands mold this clay, may the impressions be, in reality, made by the movement of Your hands and directed by Your perfect thoughts.”
Source: Make warm noises
“Children just need love," Sarah had said. "It doesn't always matter from whom.”
Source: Keep the Home Fires Burning
“Gavin is just a kid. He hasn't figured out yet how cruel life can be. How it can take everything from you, dig in its sharp teeth and not let go. He still has hope. I can't tarnish that.”
Source: Scream All Night
“... the government had spent more than four times the amount on lawyers [fighting a First Nations family's request for medical treatment] than would have been required to actually do the surgery.”
Source: Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream
“As you traverse those incredible mountains, take a moment to appreciate their tranquillity. Let the peace they exude seep into your soul and calm your spirit.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“It was further revealed that the government sometimes refuses to pay for certain medications even after a pediatrician has declared their necessity.”
Source: Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream
“[The federal government memo documents] imply a feeling of bureaucratic effrontery as though this child, who hovered between life and death, was some kind of chiseller to the taxpayer.”
Source: Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream
“But far too many innocent youngsters have been needlessly ground up in a bureaucratic meat grinder. There isn't anything accidental about such a waste of potential and life.”
Source: Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream
“In the fight among politicians, the children lost again.”
Source: Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream
“Right-wing pundits continually framed First Nations issues as a drain on taxpayers when, in fact, Indigenous communities were presenting a major growth opportunity.”
Source: Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream