Receiving finds you not when you reach for it, but when you finally let yourself be reached. To be touched by the grace that has always been around you, that has always been You.

When receiving finds you, you understand, not just in your mind but in your Being:

This is what it feels like to be met without having to be more than exactly who you are

When true receiving finds you, something inside unclenches. Not because you tried, but because truth has a way of loosening what fear tightened.

Receiving doesn't push. It doesn't ask you to meet it in perfection. It simply sits beside you like an old friend who knows the way around your heart, by heart and says, "What you are holding that isn't yours? You can set it down now. You can let this moment land"

And then you feel it - the gentle stream of kindness, of goodness settling into your body the way light settles on anything willing to stop moving.

Receiving begins in that microsecond you choose to stop organizing the moment and let it actually touch you

It doesn't rush in. It seeps in. Like morning light peeking under a door, or through the window shades, deciding for you that your day has begun.

And suddenly: your body remembers how to open without splitting,

how to allow without grasping,

how to receive without doing anything to "deserve it".

You realize receiving never had anything to do with your worth and everything to do with willingness and capacity to and allow something new.

Willingness to be seen in the quiet ways. Willingness to let love have a place to land. Willingness to allow tenderness to get close to you.

And so you let it enter.

Your chest softens. Your breath drops deeper. Your whole being says, "Yes, Okay, I'm here for it."

And when you feel it- that sweet, holy inflow - you understand:

You were never really waiting for the world to offer, even if it may have felt that way. Actually, your universe was waiting patiently for you, perhaps for generations for you to learn to feel safe to Open.

To let beauty reach you. To let gentleness matter. To let a single moment be enough. To have reverence for your soul and the soul in everything.

And to receive like the soul you are- open, Available, and already worthy of every soft and beautiful thing and experience that exists.