There was a season when the world went dim around the edges and every familiar doorway seemed to close at once. I didn’t have a plan. I didn’t have a map. I didn’t have the strength to pretend I was fine.
What I had were six words.
I first heard them in a video, the kind you stumble across when you are just beginning to find your way into something larger than yourself.
For my highest and greatest good.
They were simple. Quietly spoken. But something in me recognized them before my mind had time to catch up.
I began to use them. Not as a mantra, not with any ceremony. Just as a question I learned to return to.
What is for my highest and greatest good?
What those words gave me was more than comfort. They gave me a way to orient myself when I couldn’t see clearly. They offered a question I hadn’t known how to ask.
Not what will keep the peace.
Not what will make this easier for everyone else.
What is for my highest and greatest good?
It sounds simple. It wasn’t.
For a long time I hadn’t considered myself in the equation at all. My own needs had gone quiet beneath the weight of everything and everyone I was carrying. So when those words appeared, they were asking something of me. They were asking me to come back to myself long enough to choose.
And I did.
Not perfectly. Not all at once.
But slowly, in the small moments where the path felt uncertain and my own voice felt far away, I would return to that question. It helped me make decisions I might not otherwise have trusted myself to make. It helped me find solid ground when everything felt unsettled. Choice by choice, it guided me toward a life that fit more honestly than the one I had been trying so hard to maintain.
That is what I want to offer you now.
Not a phrase to recite.
A question to carry.
One that places you gently at the center of your own life, maybe for the first time in a very long time.
When you don’t know which way to go, ask it.
When someone is asking more of you than you have to give, ask it.
When you are about to shrink yourself to make room for someone else’s comfort, ask it.
What is for my highest and greatest good?
May it guide you when the path feels unclear.
May it remind you that you are allowed to be a consideration in your own life.
And may it lead you, one small choice at a time, toward the life that has been waiting patiently for you all along.
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