05/11/2025
EVEN A BAD DAY IS A DOORWAY TO GRACE
You donāt have to be peaceful or positive today.
You donāt have to "rise above it all".
You donāt have to spend the day in bliss or transcendence.
When the thoughts come,
"Iāve failed. Iām lazy. Iām wasting my life."
Donāt push them away.
Turn towards them. Smile at them.
Say, āHello mind. Thanks for the suggestions.ā
Let yourself feel down, bored, disconnected, hopeless.
You are human. You are allowed.
You donāt need to be perfect or enlightened.
There is no shame in opening
to the full spectrum of your experience.
Discover true meditation instead:
Bring awareness into the ache.
Let love flow into the cracks.
Saturate the doubt and the anxiety with compassion.
No fixing. No analysing. Just tender presence.
Talk to yourself as your dearest friend would.
"You are feeling overwhelmed today. Thatās okay.
You are still loved. I am still here.
You are still beautiful. You are still whole."
This is what real spirituality looks like!
Not hovering above your pain.
But sitting beside it, with it.
Holding it. Breathing into it.
Breaking open to it.
The storm is not a mistake.
It is weather, and it passes.
It always does. It always has.
The sky does not need to fight the storm.
Be the sky. Be the opening for it all.
And discover:
Even a bad day
is a doorway to grace.
- Jeff Foster
EVEN A BAD DAY IS A DOORWAY TO GRACE
You donāt have to be peaceful or positive today.
You donāt have to "rise above it all".
You donāt have to spend the day in bliss or transcendence.
When the thoughts come,
"Iāve failed. Iām lazy. Iām wasting my life."
Donāt push them away.
Turn towards them. Smile at them.
Say, āHello mind. Thanks for the suggestions.ā
Let yourself feel down, bored, disconnected, hopeless.
You are human. You are allowed.
You donāt need to be perfect or enlightened.
There is no shame in opening
to the full spectrum of your experience.
Discover true meditation instead:
Bring awareness into the ache.
Let love flow into the cracks.
Saturate the doubt and the anxiety with compassion.
No fixing. No analysing. Just tender presence.
Talk to yourself as your dearest friend would.
"You are feeling overwhelmed today. Thatās okay.
You are still loved. I am still here.
You are still beautiful. You are still whole."
This is what real spirituality looks like!
Not hovering above your pain.
But sitting beside it, with it.
Holding it. Breathing into it.
Breaking open to it.
The storm is not a mistake.
It is weather, and it passes.
It always does. It always has.
The sky does not need to fight the storm.
Be the sky. Be the opening for it all.
And discover:
Even a bad day
is a doorway to grace.
- Jeff Foster