Bob Dunham, pastor emeritus of the University Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill, “Rest As a Key to Personal Well-Being”
Rest As a Key to Personal Well-Being --- Bob Dunham Decades ago, the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell wrote a song about a child who was delighted by dragonflies and amazed by the world around him, but who grew impatient as he got older and wanted the pace to quicken. I sang “The Circle Game” to my children when they were young, lamenting that we’re but “captives on a carousel of time,” unable to return and relive the days behind us as the years increase their speed. In the third verse of the song, Mitchell sang: Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now, Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town; and they te...