Little Light
“Some days, all we can do is sit on the cold ground with them while they cry. So we do it. Meeting the darkness with the flame of a spitting candle.” - ROC Member Kacy West, Outreach Worker for the CHATT Foundation
“You know, sometimes we just need good people like you to be coming here every week. That gives us a little incentive to look at our life and improve ourselves.” - ROC Client
“Light, warmth, energy, mass, matter—science shows us that all these are all elements of the same thing. These can also help us establish our role in this work.
Imagine that you have a piece of firewood. There's no doubt that it belongs to you. It is just a cold, dead piece of a tree, but it is yours. When you burn it, though, things get really exciting! Mass is transforming into heat and light before your eyes! You can't hold it anymore! It's moving out into the world! You benefit from the warmth and light radiating from it, but it no longer belongs to you. You shared it, even if you didn't intend to. That energy belongs to all of us now.”
- ROC Member Kacy West
Taking matter and transforming it through the use of light to discover and uncover what matters.
At the ROC every day we are trying in the most intentional ways to share our light, our warmth, and our energy with those in the dark, in the cold, and running low on energy.
It is our hope to shed light and positively affect the lives of not only those we aim to serve but also to affect the at times skewed perspectives of the general public towards homelessness. The ROC can be both a warming, transformative fire and a zoomed-in, revealing microscope.
The ROC functions like that of a microscope by choosing to carry our shared light and to get close, to zoom in, to get personal, and to get approximate to those experiencing homelessness. We feel this is the only way to understand the issue of homelessness and the people it affects. Without the vision of the micro, there is no full understanding of the macro. Through the use of a microscopic view and the understanding of what a little light can sustain, your eyes can be opened to entire ecosystems and sources of life that are otherwise seemingly invisible. You may even discover what others thought was useless, but with use of a little light now has the potential for unexpected growth and new purpose.
It is not lost on us how this unique perspective that we have on the issue of homelessness can be angled and utilized in ways to allow the little light we have to share to continue to expand and create larger and brighter tomorrows for those thinking today is all they may get to see.
Stars In The Dark Night Sky May Look Small, But The Closer You Get The More You Realize How Much Bigger And Brighter They Actually Are!
As this ROC keeps on rollin’ the bigger and brighter we become!
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#LittleLight
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