“There is a rhythm beneath the rush. Wait long enough in silence, and you’ll hear it calling you home.”

There was a time I thought life was about doing.

Doing to be worthy.

Doing to be seen.

Doing to make others comfortable.

Doing to keep up.

Doing so I wouldn’t fall behind.

But somewhere between exhaustion and awakening, I stumbled into the beauty of seeing.

Not watching from a distance.

Not checking out.

But really seeing.

I began to notice the pull of my own breath, the shift of light on water, the way truth rises when I’m still, long enough to let it. I noticed that the world doesn’t actually need me to race it. That sometimes, the most powerful thing I can do is nothing, until the inner knowing says, Now.

We’re taught to override that knowing.

To push through.

To check boxes.

To be agreeable, efficient, productive.

But something sacred lives beneath all that noise.

And it reveals itself when I stop trying to explain who I am and just live it.

It reveals itself when I stop trying to fix things for others, and simply honor what I need.

It reveals itself when I wait, and listen, and inform not to be understood, but to stay in integrity with myself.

Seeing has softened me.

It has freed me from the grip of performance.

It has made me better, more aware.

And somehow, life still gets done.

In better ways.

Truer ways.

More wholeheartedly and less rushed.

When we learn to see instead of do, we don’t miss life.

We become it.

The Stillness That Moves

They said,

do more,

be more,

prove it.

So I danced in circles

of everyone else’s urgency,

chasing worth in mirrors

that never saw me.

But the trees never asked me to hurry.

The sky never measured my value

by the weight of my to-do list.

The river moved, even when I didn’t.

And in that stillness,

I began to see

the hush between words,

the whisper in my chest

that knew when to wait,

and when to rise.

Not everything grows by force.

Not every truth needs explanation.

Not every moment needs a task.

I am learning the rhythm

of unseen things

how clarity comes when I inform,

even when my voice shakes,

even when silence feels safer.

I am learning that

the deepest presence

is not in doing more

but in being true.

And in that truth,

everything that matters

gets done.

~Kerri-Elizabeth~