May you let yourself rest
Permission granted.
My sister emailed me this poem
And I really wanted to share
It with you all.
What a year it has been...
And now,
May you let yourself rest.
"If you’re exhausted, rest.
If you don’t feel
Like starting a new project, don’t.
If you don’t feel the urge
To make something new,
Just rest in the beauty of the old,
The familiar, the known.
If you don’t feel like talking, stay silent.
If you’re fed up with the news, turn it off.
If you want to postpone
Something until tomorrow, do it.
If you want to do nothing,
Let yourself do nothing today.
Feel the fullness of the emptiness,
The vastness of the silence,
The sheer life in your unproductive moments.
Time does not always need to be filled.
You are enough, simply in your being."
- Jeff Foster -
Wishing you a nourishing rest,
Because regardless
If you worked your socks off,
Ran around for everyone else,
Lost your job,
Or felt bored and uninspired a lot of the time,
You don’t need to earn a rest.
So rest dear you. I wish you rest.
And in that rest, dear fellow Inner Pilgrim,
May your soul feel fully permitted
To envision the life you want to live.
I look forward to connecting again soon.
With love,
Karin
“It feels so good to read this. Thank you for sharing.”
“Que hermoso poema. Me gustó. Gracias Karin.”
