Rest

October 2rest,bench,bluebonnet swamp trail

I am thankful for rest. Especially when we are weary and heavy laden. Rest is especially nice at those times. There is nothing better than to sit down after a hard day of labor. Sometimes we can even benefit more from rest following times of mental strain or stress. Rest gives us a chance to renew ourselves and begin again.

This is a photo of a bench along the Bluebonnet Swamp trail around the swamp. I have several photos of benches that I thought of using for this topic but chose this one. There is one with a man sitting on the bench but I decided the bench should be empty, inviting us to sit. This one is at the side of the trail, symbolic for allowing us a break from the busy trek through life. We can step off of the trail and sit down and rest, think, and re-energize before we get up and move on our way down the trail.

rest

hurry hurry hurry

life is such a hurry

we try to spend so little time

to span the distances in a flurry

jump from point a to point b

as fast as we possibly can

we thought we only could have survived in life

if from place to place we ran

but sometimes just sometimes

once in a sometime little while

we need some rest

a little repose from the mile

so relax a bit

and take a little time to chill

we will not miss anything

from having time enough to kill.

© rt tulley