“What do you want to do?” her mom responded. “Sell our house?”
Warning! Never suggest a grand gesture to an idealistic teenager. Hannah seized upon the idea of selling the luxurious family home and donating half the proceeds to charity, while using the other half to buy a more modest replacement home.
Eventually, that’s what the family did. The project ”” crazy, impetuous and utterly inspiring ”” is chronicled in a book by father and daughter scheduled to be published next month: “The Power of Half.” It’s a book that, frankly, I’d be nervous about leaving around where my own teenage kids might find it. An impressionable child reads this, and the next thing you know your whole family is out on the street.
At a time of enormous needs in Haiti and elsewhere, when so many Americans are trying to help Haitians by sending everything from text messages to shoes, the Salwens offer an example of a family that came together to make a difference ”” for themselves as much as the people they were trying to help.
[blockquote] Everyone has too much of something, whether it’s time, talent or treasure. Everyone does have their own half, you just have to find it. [/blockquote]
That’s my takeaway quotation from this article, which is well worth the read.
Some how this sounds quite Franciscan.