Why Community Matters

Joy can be evasive. Hope is easily scared off into a dark corner. And while trimmings, lights and red hats with white puffs twinkle on door frames and city streets, there is hurt, fear and pain. There are people in this very group who are battling cancer today. A relative recently had a lump removed and was asked if breast cancer runs in the family. No, she said, “just every other kind.”

This is why it matters. Not because of cancer, but because of how this community can bring people together to help fight it. How a Carly dress will make chemo a little more comfortable. How selling a pair of leggings can pay for one gift for a kid holding a red crayon and a wishlist of toys. How a Nicole dress can make a woman feel beautiful again, and help Joy find it’s place in the front of the line.

It matters because your support has brought my family together for a purpose. Because together we can all reach into dark corners, grab Hope by the hand and drag it back into the center of someone’s soul.