It's always inspiring to get good feedback about our work, so we were excited to see Live Out Loud blogger Becca's recent post about her experience reading IHE President, Zoe Weil's book, Most Good, Least Harm.Here are a couple excerpts from Becca's post:
"Upon starting to read the book, my first reaction was an intense desire to chuck the book out the window. It's really hard to read about the various harms in which we participate just by going about our daily lives. It was almost impossible not to be overwhelmed with it all, overwhelmed enough to want to plug my ears, shut my eyes, and sing at the top of my lungs, 'LA LA LA LA, I can't heaaaaar you, Zoe.'
"It's so much easier not to know than it is to know. But the problem for me is this: Now that I know what I know, I can't go back to not knowing. Oh, I can pretend, for sure. I can go about living as if I don't understand that the choices I make have impacts far beyond those I can see. I can focus on my family, my work, my home. I can delve into the busy of daily life and stay there for a really long time without even looking up. But amidst all the busy, whenever I pause enough to breathe, there is always a nagging voice whispering to me softly: there is so much more. There is so much more.
"...I want to go deeper. I want to begin to reconcile how I live my life with what I know about the struggles faced by people all across the planet. I want to teach my children to feel gratitude for what they have, rather than discontent for what they don't. I want to push back against entitlement and materialism and the pervasive and poisonous belief that what you have defines who you are. I want my actions to create ripple effects of good that reach all the way across the world and back again. I want to choose kindness, over and over and over again."
Read Becca's complete post.
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