HOME: Where Love Flourishes

Home is a place where me and my family live, my brother, my mom, my dad, and me, where memories are treasured and love is shared with the ones we love. Home is where my dad teaches me right from wrong and where my mom’s love surrounds me, where sibling rivalry forms the foundation of love and respect for my older brother. Home is a place where friends gather: to talk or to play games, where close or distant relatives gather for celebrations, where we catch up on time lost. Home is a place, where at the end of the day we gather to pray, expressing our sorrows and joys, as a family united by love and prayer Home is where my mom makes my favourite, chili chicken and rice, and my brother’s favourite, gobi manchurian (fried cauliflower covered in lots of sauce), where we gather around the dinner table to eat and talk about our day. Home is where I feel safe, a place where if I am scared I know that these walls will protect me, a place where if I feel afraid I know my family is always there for me. Home is Superman coming to save the day when I’m having a rough time, it’s a giant teddy bear that envelopes it’s gentle, furry hands around me in a warm and cozy embrace Home is not just four walls and a roof, it’s where love is the foundation, my dad’s wise words, the brick, my mom’s cozy, warm hugs, the insulation, my brother’s help and advise, the frame, where one, small family is connected by a 1000 hearts where the words love and family mix together to make one word, HOME. So join Habitat for Humanity and offer the gift of HOME.