Community Matters

The news has been heavy. The weather made everything feel smaller and more fragile. I went looking for reassurance, and then without my asking, it found me. One neighbor baked cookies and brought them to our door, a simple kindness wrapped in wax paper. My wife, Mary, made dinner for an elderly couple on our street who couldn't safely get out. The University of Memphis professor cleared ice from the sidewalk, not because anyone told him to, but because it needed doing. Later, his two boys, 12 and 13, came over to our house to watch football, filling the room with laughter and noise and the easy confidence that they were welcome. Across the city at Global Cafe, workers, many of them former refugees cooked hundreds of hot meals for people who had been left in the cold.
Life matters because community matters. And sometimes when the world feels uncertain, it doesn't arrive with answers, just with cookies, open doors, and neighbors who show up. This is Dr. Scott Morris for Church Health.