A Heart on Fire

About this book

From Danielle Coke Balfour, founder of Oh Happy Dani, comes a powerful debut collection of inspiring meditations and illustrations, encouraging readers to pursue transformation and the ultimate good. Artist, advocate, and entrepreneur Danielle Coke Balfour, founder of Oh Happy Dani, is a visionary voice in the female leadership arena. Unabashedly faith-inspired, while always culturally relevant, Danielle is a straight shooter of hard truths, inspiring women of all ages with her upbeat, curious tone and her willingness to address difficult issues with honesty, grace, and hope. In A Heart on Fire: 100 Meditations on Loving Your Neighbors Well, she guides readers through the Ten Pillars of a Life of Good Work, explaining that a life of good work is both conscious and intentional. Dani explores ideas of justice, empathy, hope, community, love, consistency, awareness, creativity, honesty, and redemption. With vivid illustrations, thoughtful meditations and practical to-dos, A Heart on Fire inspires readers to stop waiting for the perfect opportunity to make a difference and move into action. Warm, candid, colorful, and deeply practical, this is an invitation to build a life in which love, justice, and compassion become visible every day. One hundred short, accessible reflections explore how everyday choices can be shaped by love, empathy, justice, hope, truth, community, creativity, and compassion The book is intentionally structured around ten pillars of love, creativity, justice, hope, awareness, community, consistency, empathy, honesty, and redemption Thoughtful, conversational essays support social justice without losing hope: racism, inequality, misinformation, allyship, accountability, activism, oppression, community care, and the long work of meaningful change Illustrated exercises include a 30-day collection of small, practical ways to practice love, from supporting organizations and small businesses to checking on friends, learning about causes, donating thoughtfully, and staying present in conversation Ribbon bookmark helps revisit passages of special significance Balfour draws on Biblical principles of justice, mercy, humility, neighbor-love, and redemption while explicitly framing the lessons so they can be applied broadly. Turn compassion into a daily practice, let truth and hope guide your work, and build a life whose ordinary days become evidence of how well you loved your neighbors.