Introduction to Things That Know How to Rest
There is a wisdom in the natural world that we do not overlook — the seed that does not rush, the river that finds its own way, the earth that holds time quietly without hurry. We measure so much by how fast we go and how far we reach, and we can easily forget that growth does not always happen in the noist of doing.
This poem honours that quiet, patient truth: that we do not need to hurry to be growing. Sometimes the most important thing we can do is slow down, breathe, and remember — rest is not a pause from living. It is the very ground where life takes root.
Things That Know How to Rest
The seed does not rush.
Down in the dark of the warming earth,
it works beneath the ground —
sending roots down, quietly growing,
waiting for its season to turn.
The river does not hurry downstream.
It winds along the shape of the land,
resting in hollows found along the way,
then, in its own time, moving on.
Things grow at a pace we often forget,
while we rush and run and wonder why
the world feels too sharp, too much.
Maybe resting is not something we earn.
Maybe it is how we grow —
quiet, steady, unseen,
like the seed beneath the soil.
I am learning to pause.
To breathe when the clock says run.
To trust that I need not know
what time is shaping within me.
Copyright © 2026 Pat Fitzgerald
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Kings Quote:
Often we move from event to event without pause, but there are points when we desire or need rest, for it may be then, that growth takes place.
Reflection: If we consider rest and growth in one light, we need to find time and space to rest, because in that rest we may find that growth, may take place. but if not we have rested for the journey ahead. This is where trust comes in. Because there we make discoveries about ourselves and our journey to date.
We need to trust ourselves enough to allow things to unfold, giving growth the time and space to find its roots.
Personal Notes:
When I begun to work on this Poem I was not very encouraged in how it looked to me. But as it went on and I edited parts that felt off or not right for the poem, This Poem grew on me and I believe this poem now looks great and is at a point where the work that went into this poem has brought me to a new place of understanding in the composing of poetry.
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