I believe there is a beautiful, wholesome power in the second verse of the 23rd Psalm that will not let us go: He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside still waters.  First, He maketh me lie down next to still waters.

The words of the Psalmist suggest what is revealed in the creation story --that there is a need of regular rest and renewal in the make-up of human life. We all know painfully well that at times we find ourselves in a weary and worried pattern of life that cries out for rest and renewal.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote, "Our whole being pants for solitude, for silence. For at sometime or another, we have all tasted what silence is and we have not forgotten the fruit of such hours. Being silent in God's presence requires work and practice. It takes dai…