Our final staff meeting of the school year ended with a prayer, but before that, a poem:
“There is a day
when the road neither
comes nor goes, and the way
is not a way but a place”
Wendell Berry
For me, summer break began today. The joys and delights of rest, recreation and refreshment are now at my fingertips. Time is on my side, as living for the clock has been replaced with living for the sake of living.
As we all know, these times of vacation, and the delights associated with them are not an indicator of displeasure with our life’s work, but a need to change perspective so that we might have fresh and clearer focus when we return to our jobs, our professions, our work.
I have such plans for this summer …
refinishing furniture and selling it
tending my garden, my roses, each morning
more exercising
cleaning closets
painting bedrooms
finding more furniture to refinish, to sell
I am feeling tired just writing my plans …
But …
“There is a day
when the road neither
comes nor goes, and the way
is not a way but a place”
Maybe my plans, your plans, need further consideration. Maybe our plans for down time ought to actually include down time. Maybe the road we should consider traveling this summer is one without destination (or accomplishment). Maybe the only direction we need is to breath, to be still, just for a little while.
“He says,
be still and know that I am God.”
Psalm 46:10
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