Impact

We have no idea the impact we can make on someone’s life just by offering a simple word of encouragement, by showing up, by supporting them in some small way.

By acknowledging their gift. By embracing it. By giving them permission to step towards their dream again. To crack open the door they had closed and barred, the door they had planted trees in front of and allowed bushes and weeds and vines to overtake and overshadow. By giving them permission to walk through into blinding light, the light that is their gift to the world. By saying, “I believe in you. I believe in your gifts. You can do this.”

Sometimes all someone needs is the smallest reason to keep hoping, to keep moving forward in pursuit of the beautiful, full life they were always meant to have.