Spreading Love in Every Direction
For my final post of the year, I’m sharing some of Brianna Wiest’s wisdom about finding purpose, and the boundless impact of spreading kindness and love. I find Brianna’s words, excerpted from her book, When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal, both inspiring and empowering as we head into 2025.
With wishes for peace, joy, and many blessings in the New Year!
Myra
Purpose isn’t always loud. It also isn’t always just one thing…It’s not what you do, but the way you do it…
We have all met those human beings that are simply just beacons of kindness, who radiate love through everything they do. We come across them in the most unsuspecting of ways, and yet they very often make such an impression on us, we can remember them to this day.
These are the teachers who gave us guidance, the peers who saw us and stood by us even when we feared they wouldn’t. The parent who acted defiantly and taught us the meaning of bravery or loyalty or love. The neighbor who showed us what community means, the random person we passed as we were moving through our errands for the day that gave us a smile or spoke goodness over us…
Every time you interact with someone, you are creating a cascading, ripple effect through humanity. You cannot imagine how deeply this web of connectivity is woven, how much a single act of kindness can affect the world at large, how powerfully one soul showing another true love can impact the way that person interacts with every other person they come across—forever…
We heal not as we change what we do upon this world, but how we do it.
We become purposeful as we realize that since the very moment we were born, we were overflowing with potential to extend that love in every direction we can reach.
Excerpted from When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal, by Brianna Wiest
