Amy Grant, 65, Says Even in Hard Times, Our Small Choices Still Matter
Amy Grant says even during painful times, everyday kindness still changes lives.
Key Takeaways
- Amy Grant says everyday choices carry more influence than many women realize.
- The singer shares a hopeful reminder amid today’s overwhelming headlines.
- Grant believes small moments of kindness can deeply impact other people.
If the headlines have you feeling helpless lately, Grammy-winning singer Amy Grant has a message that just might shift your whole perspective. The beloved artist is gently reminding women everywhere that even when the world feels overwhelming, we hold more power than we realize—and it shows up in the smallest moments of our day.
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Yes, hard things are happening—and so is everything else
Grant doesn’t sugarcoat the difficulties of this moment. She names them directly. But what she says next is what makes her message land so deeply.
“Awful things are happening and then you go look in the midst of the awfulness, still every day, every one of us has a myriad of ways that we can use our time, energy, our resources,” Grant said. “Every one of us has so much more power and influence to make the world a different place because of the 100 choices we make in a day.”
Read that again. Slowly. Because tucked inside those words is something many of us have been missing: the reminder that ordinary life keeps going, and we still get to shape it.
You still go to work. You still stand in the checkout line. You still pass neighbors on your morning walk and chat with the woman behind you at the pharmacy. Those moments may feel small, but Grant suggests they’re anything but.
The texture of a day is made of tiny choices
Think about your last 24 hours. How did you greet the cashier ringing up your groceries? Did you make eye contact with the stranger holding the door? What tone did you use when your spouse asked you the same question for the third time? How patient were you with the grandchild who needed one more story?
These aren’t the decisions that make news. No one will write them down. But they shape the experience of every person on the receiving end—and they add up in ways we rarely stop to consider.
That’s the heart of what Grant is saying. The fabric of daily life is woven from countless little interactions, and each one is a choice we get to make.
Why 100 choices a day really do matter
Whether Grant means the number literally or symbolically, the math is striking. If you make roughly 100 meaningful choices each day about how to show up in the world, imagine the ripple effect over a week. A month. A lifetime.
A kind word at the drive-thru window might be the only kind word that worker hears all shift. A genuine smile at a tired-looking mom in Target might be the lift she didn’t know she needed. A moment of patience with someone who feels invisible could be the difference between a hard day and an unbearable one.
This isn’t new wisdom, of course. Mothers, grandmothers and women of faith have been saying versions of it forever. But Grant’s reframing hits differently right now because it gives back something many of us feel we’ve lost: a sense that what we do actually matters.
When the news cycle is filled with things that feel impossibly big—conflicts overseas, disasters, political division—it’s easy to decide that one person’s actions are too small to count. Grant flips that thinking. Individual action is the very kind of action most of us can take, and its effects are not insignificant just because they happen close to home.
A message anyone can carry
Grant has spent decades crossing back and forth between Christian music and the mainstream pop charts, and her audience reaches across generations. But her message doesn’t require a stage to be useful. It works at the kitchen sink. In the school pickup line. At the nursing home where you visit your mother. At the coffee shop where you treat yourself on Friday mornings.
Anyone can apply it. The retired teacher. The exhausted caregiver. The grandmother on a fixed income. The woman juggling work and aging parents. Every interaction is a chance, and every chance is a choice.
Her words also push back against the quiet cynicism that says being kind in small ways is naive when so much feels broken. Grant’s response is that small kindness isn’t a replacement for facing bigger problems—it’s the foundation everything else is built on.
You have more power than you think
The takeaway here isn’t complicated, and it isn’t another thing to add to your already-full plate. Grant isn’t asking you to fix the world. She’s inviting you to notice the influence you already have—and to use it on purpose.
Make eye contact. Say thank you like you mean it. Be patient with the person who’s struggling. Choose kindness when frustration would be easier. Remember that the human on the other side of every interaction is carrying their own story.
It’s a hopeful message, and a deeply needed one. Hard things are happening. And every one of us has so much more power than we think.
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