Grace Takes Strength
Cushion Cut · Grace
We know how to offer grace to the people we love. We make room for their mistakes, their difficult days, and the moments when they do not have everything together.
We are not always as generous with ourselves.
We can explain a friend’s difficult day with compassion. For ourselves, we seem to prefer an internal performance review.
We push through. We hold ourselves to impossible standards. We offer ourselves very little room to simply be human.
But grace asks something different of us.
It asks us to meet ourselves with the same care we give so freely to others. To acknowledge what we feel without judging ourselves for feeling it. To honor our limits without treating them as failures.
Grace toward ourselves is not an indulgence. It is a form of strength.
The cushion cut offers another way to understand that strength. Its rounded corners soften its form without diminishing its structure or brilliance. It does not need sharp edges to hold its own.
Grace does not diminish our strength either; it changes the way we carry it. It allows us to meet our mistakes without shame, our limits without judgment, and ourselves without sharp edges.
