My dad is a farmer. When I was growing up, he would teach me about farming using stories from the Bible. He would teach small lessons and big lessons, both practical and spiritual.
I remember one Saturday, he explained to me how fields need rest, just as people need rest. That whenever we plant a certain crop in a field one year, we can’t plant the same crop the next year. And every seven years or so, we didn’t plant anything at all. We let it rest.
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“For everything there is a season,
a time for every activity under heaven…
a time to plant and a time to harvest.
a time to be silent and a time to speak.
There is also a time to rest and a time to work.
Right now, it is time to rest, to rest from this platform.
I have spent the last six months cultivating this platform into a consistent place to create, post and process. As 2021 comes to a close, I feel it’s time to give the platform rest. To come back to it in the new year and see if I want to change it or keep rolling with the consistency that I have built.
I am slowly but surely finding my way to becoming a writer. To showing up day-in and day-out, punching the clock and hitting the keyboard, even when I don’t want to. And now, as the holidays arrive, the days get shorter and the nights longer, it is a time to rest here. While there may be an occasional post or thought, the next couple of months will be spent strategizing both at work and on the keyboard with what’s to come in 2022.
So, cheers to 2021, to consistency and to us all taking the small steps toward who we want to be.
Thank you for reading Cliff Notes;
-Cliff
Cliff’s Note: Rest is just part of the process.