'“It certainly didn’t start that way,” Erin said. “There were moments when we were reluctant to share on social media, especially my dad, just for our privacy’s sake and because of the struggle that he was going through. But we came to the point where we knew we had to share — not only so that people would pray for my dad because so many people rallied around him and that was because of social media — but because social media provided us an avenue to be an encouragement to others. Rather than being this burden of social media, it really became a blessing to all of us.”'