I think sometimes we just need to hear that it’s ok to stop running so hard; to be reminded that there is a whole lot of good in simply enjoying our journey and not racing to the finish.

Some time ago, my dad began saying to me, “Remember Brook, God designed you as a human being, not a human doing.” His words came to mind as I heard this today:

Let me tell the tale

Of a girl who didn’t stop, 

Who climbed up every mountain

Without a pause upon the top.

She’d dance until each blade of grass

Was clothed in drops of dew, 

And the sun knew her by name

But the silver moon did too.

For a fear had settled in her bones;

A fear of sitting still,

That if you’re not moving forward

It must mean you never will.

So in time her dance got slower

And she looked at all she’d seen,

But found gaps inside the places

That she’d never fully been,

For she was a human doing

Human moving, human seeing,

But she’d never taken time

To simply be a human being.

~e.h.