It Keeps Going...and Going...and Going!

I arrived home this afternoon to my beloved who asked sweetly, "Can we do a movie night?" It's been months since we crashed, cuddled up and watched a good movie. I was all in! But...then, a personal to-do list was introduced before we settled down, in addition to tennis rackets needing strung during the movie. Wait, what? Life is so full these days, it's hard to find a moment, or a cuddle, or a...breath? 

Is it just me? Anyone else feel like an alien from another planet, looking around at the energizer bunnies pounding their drums as they just keep going and going and going? I mean, c'mon, the bunny is pink, wears sunglasses and flip flops--that's a maddening juxtaposition!

While my energizer bunny runs around before the movie, I'm out in the garden, having kicked off my flip flops (ha!), and I'm writing it out. Here's a heart-felt weekend offering for space to materialize between the drum beats or hey...all else fails, let's pull the batteries ;)

Vaiynafesh
©Karla Johnston, InnerConstellation.com

A word of Hebrew origin meaning “refreshed,” literally – “exhaled”

In the beginning: darkness, expansion, heaven meets earth.
“And on the 7^th day, God rested and was ‘refreshed’”—
Creator exhaled….

A 21^st Century creator takes in and breathes the days:
emails, texts, drama,
traffic, errands, news,
to do’s, cooking, chores.

Draw in and in and in, fill to overflowing.
Try this: hold the in-breath, do NOT breathe out,
Impossible!
Wise body knows the pause of natural rhythm.

“Vaiynafesh”—
Refresh.
Roll, Ancient Syllables, from a tired and grateful tongue…
Darkness, expansion, heaven meets earth.

As tonight is breathed into existence,
this 21^st Century creator
practices
exhaling.