“I feel like I’m running all the time.
There isn’t space,
a place,
to rest.
And if there is time not spoken for,
I get the feeling I’m letting someone down,
that I should do more.”
You think it’s just you,
until you ask a few,
and realize it’s afflicting young,
and
it’s afflicting old,
who also don’t know what to do.
This kind of feeling is like a spider's web,
the more you fight,
the more you get caught up instead.
The only way to not get more bound up,
is to stop, rest, and listen.
Plan for times
of rest,
of play.
Don’t leave it to chance
or
you just get more caught
in thinking your life isn’t OK.
For in the story of when
the Creator instituted a day of rest,
it had a purpose:
a day to remember,
to trust,
for
re-creation,
re-membering
from dusk until dusk.
So perhaps if the
Source
and
Life of all things
set apart a time
for rest,
those of us
who only think we have the
world on our shoulders
can take ourselves
a little less
seriously.