Grace is the second serve you didn’t earn after double-faulting your whole week.

A second chance you did not earn is difficult to accept, because most of us would rather pay for the first attempt than receive the next one free. After a bad week the instinct is to keep yourself in the penalty, as though serving time were the same as making things right. What is being offered here is another turn, immediately, with the record of the last one already settled.

Take it rather than arguing with it. Start again today instead of at the beginning of next month. Gratitude is a better fuel for change than self punishment.