Get Some Rest, World

 

This today from Reuters: 

“Pope Francis made his first public appearance since returning to the Vatican mid-week after an 11-day hospital stay, telling well wishers they should take a break and switch off from the stresses of modern life.

‘Let us put a halt to the frantic running around dictated by our agendas. Let us learn how to take a break, to turn off the mobile phone,’ Pope Francis said in his weekly address from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square.”

A similar sentiment has been playing in my head since I recently read a feature story in a major newspaper about a positive, non-political topic (the history of a local record company) that was tarnished by the interjection of totally irrelevant negative political and COVID comments.

What I want to tell that Chicago reporter is the same thing Jason Bourne told CIA agent Pam Landy, surprising her, as Bourne watched her through a window of an adjacent skyscraper:

“Get some rest, Pam, you look tired.”

A professor of mine at Moody Theological Seminary once advised something similar. Perceiving that I was approaching my studies with perhaps a bit too much gusto, he said,

“Relax. Go watch some TV.”

Maybe we can all take the first step to gaining some much needed reprieve by watching, or re-watching, The Bourne Identity series. 

We need to get some rest, world. We look tired.  

Copyright Barb Harwood