Grace and Ease, Please

When reminders are needed

Jun 24, 2025

My theme for the year is GRACE AND EASE, as in radical grace and ease. I greet this midyear check-in with a heavy sigh and some relief as I lean into this theme.

As it has been for so many, it’s been a challenging year with more challenges coming. Not as life-shattering as many are dealing with, but my stomach is often in knots just the same. And, for me, sometimes with internal and external stresses comes procrastination. I know that’s what some of the stomach knots are about: Feeling the pressure and disappointment of procrastination as I sludge along on important personal projects, from health goals, to completing a long-running novel edit, to starting a new book idea I’m excited about, to checking items off of my home improvement list.

My mind is also heavy with worry, primarily about my parents’ health.

I share this because maybe you can relate.

I know this is a moment. A procrastinative moment that feels vast and sticky at times.

Then… I remember grace and ease.

“Grace and ease” is my inhale and exhale. It keeps me present, particularly in moments with my parents. Moment to moment in gratitude for every moment to moment.

“Grace and ease” is a gentle force to guide self and others, in family unknowns as well as vital creative and life endeavors.

Then, as I sit with the birdsong in the early morning and record my thoughts, I move through it and find I am writing again. The moment passes. With grace and ease, I’m once again engaged.

Ease is mindset. Ease is the pre-game conversation and pep talk.

It’s the I’ve got this. You’ve got this. We’ve got this.

Inside of ease is simplicity. And, order. And receiving and releasing. The gentle and necessary breath. Inside ease is the abundance and flow of creation.

With ease, there’s less scatter and more of what’s essential. The scatter falls by the wayside.

And Grace. It’s lovely awakening to grace and knowing it’s the hand-in-hand partner to ease.

Inside of grace is space and surrender and acceptance. Inside of grace is forgiveness and self-compassion.

Grace adds to a higher level of guidance. It’s divinity.

Grace and ease in my creative work feels like WD40 for squeaky, reluctant joints. It’s smooth sailing and graceful soaring.

Ease is forward motion at a graceful pace. And, if a rocket launch happens, ease allows its flow and perfect timing. Grace gives it divine guidance.

“Grace and ease” is the softening of the heart. It’s the gentle breath moving through the body to smooth the edges.

“Grace and ease” offers sweet INNER forgiveness and the permission to just be in the moment.

It is present.

It’s patience.

“Grace and ease” is allowing yourself to feel the breeze on your face, to pause and feel it until your body tingles.

“Grace and ease” is the mantra before the easy swing. It’s not necessary or maybe advisable to swing hard. In fact, the hard swing often misses the ball. This is indeed my mantra before I swing the golf club. It’s also the perfect metaphor for life’s swings as well. Easy swings bring graceful flow.

“Grace and ease” is finding the flow inside a sporadic and spontaneous schedule.

Ahhh. The heavy sighs transmute to a welcome deep breath. A reset.

Grace and ease. How lovely to have this to call upon and invoke all day, every day.

I knew there was a reason I wanted to share it.