If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
Written by Hannah Brencher
Narrated by Jorjeana Marie
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When she realized that it made her feel better, she started writing and leaving love notes all over the city-in doctors' offices, in coat pockets, in library books, and in bathroom stalls. Feeling crushed within a culture that only felt like connecting on a screen, she poured her heart out to complete strangers. She found solace in the idea that her words might brighten someone's day.
Hannah's project took on a life of its own when she made an offer on her blog: She would handwrite a note and mail it to anyone who wanted one. Overnight, her inbox exploded with requests from people all over the world. Nearly 400 handwritten letters later, she started the website The World Needs More Love Letters, which quickly grew.
Hannah Brencher
Hannah Brencher is a writer, TED speaker, and entrepreneur. She founded The World Needs More Love Letters, a global community dedicated to sending letter bundles to those who need encouragement. Named as one of the White House’s “Women Working to Do Good,” Hannah has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Oprah, Glamour, USATODAY.com, the Chicago Tribune, and more. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Lane, and daughter Novalee. Find Hannah at hannahbrencher.com.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5*Free e-book ARC provided by the publisher through Edelweiss/Above the Treeline. No money or goods were exchanged, and all views are my own.*Just out of college, Hannah Brencher embarks on a year of service in New York City, living on $25 a week at a place that serves immigrants and working with the United Nations. She starts out with really vague ideas of who she is and want she wants to do, and in this memoir discusses her personal journey as a young adult finding God and meaning and purpose in life.When I first downloaded this book, I thought the description sounded interesting. Oh, I like writing letters, I thought. A story about a woman deciding to leave letters to strangers all over NYC sounds intriguing. And yeah, that's part of the story. But it's also about her hitting a personal rock bottom and finding her way. It's about feeling lost and alone and unseen, getting outside of yourself and discovering love. Not the "I fell in love with you" love, but the kind of love that makes you want to give yourself up. She talks about her off-again, on-again relationship with God and moving from believing He's the rule-giver to knowing He loves her. She talks about friends and family, and the impact she learns she can have just by showing love to others. You might not find the story the best written or the most original, but it's heartfelt and true and it hit me at the perfect time.