‘Just Lather That’s All’ displays Everywhere we look we see people suffering, kids with cancer, brain damage, or even something as little as a sore throat. Each of these situations are different yet they are all similar. In each of these circumstances the community is there to love, help and support. Over that last bit of time this is what I have been focusing on.(over the last couple weeks, I have been focusing on what types of …show more content…
While at the Stollery in Edmonton, I had the chance to talk with a few people and how the community has helped them. Almost every person I talked to that day mentioned in some way shape or form that the amount of prayers they had been receiving from people in the community was phenomenal. It wasn’t that the community was providing meals, cash or a place for them it was the joy in knowing that people were praying for them. They knew that the prayers may not be answered immediately or ever but that there was support from the community that they belonged to. As well as knowing that they weren’t alone that there were other people struggling with the same thing and that their community was behind them 100%. Another way these people felt the community meeting their needs was that the community had to help their physical needs. Yes, prayer can go a long way but sometimes that physical touch can ease the pain. Many people told me that the provision of meals has made an impact on the time they have been able to have with their family while the child is recovering has made times like these less of a burden and more of an enjoyment. I had one women tell me, “Sometimes it’s hard to accept the help people are trying to give you when you feel like you can be self sufficient. But people don’t mean to make you feel that way they want to help make things right and you learn to accept these things because now you know what it’s like to be on the other side of the