“You can’t hold a blessing with clenched fists.”
You don’t have to grip to keep it.
Many of us receive like we’re waiting for the other shoe to drop — as if joy must be temporary, as if loss is inevitable.
But abundance isn’t slippery. It isn’t waiting to punish you. It wants to stay where it’s welcome.
Open-handed receiving is rooted in trust. In knowing that you are not here to snatch at life, but to dance with it.
What you hold gently stays longer. What you trust returns.
Open your palms today — to joy, to help, to more.
Sit quietly and gently open your hands in your lap. Whisper: ‘I receive with grace. I trust it’s safe to keep what I’m given.’
Let someone give to you today — a compliment, a gift, a meal, a moment. Don’t deflect. Just receive.
Bea C. “I used to fear the good things wouldn’t last. Now I let myself enjoy them fully, gently. And oddly, they last longer that way.”
What is meant for you stays — not because you clutch it, but because you welcome it.