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Yet, there is another possible root word other than nauch and that is manach which means to give as in a sacrifice. Manuchah comes from the root word nauch which means to rest, to cease, to relax. That I can relate to and I am still within the parameters of the word manuchah. As far as I am concerned, my preference is to render this not as still waters, but as waters of peace. This brings me back to this word used in the Hebrew for still which i s manuchah and means rest or peace. To this day I can still feel that sense of peace and serenity of those refreshing waters as I reflect on those days. When I arrived, I would fill my canteen with that cool, no-cold mineral water and drink it until my belly ached. I knew when I was getting close to those springs for I would feel a slight breeze of cool air. The spa was long gone but the springs were still flowing. Back in the late 19 th and early 20 th Century, there was a spa built over the mineral springs and people from all over the world would come to seek its healing powers. There were times I would take a break, put someone in charge of the camp and I would take an hour or maybe two to hike off into the woods and find a trail that led to the Mineral Springs. I would finally get one problem resolved and I would go off alone worrying about the next problem that would come. I was responsible ultimately for the discipline in the camp and I tell you there were constant battles trying to maintain discipline in a camp of troubled teenagers. When I was a camp director for a summer camp for young teenagers who were in trouble with the law or came from troubled backgrounds, I was often under great stress. Still water just sits there and bakes in the hot sun. Running waters creates coolness in the area giving a refreshing feeling. As far as refreshing goes, the flow of the running waters was the most refreshing. There was nothing refreshing about still waters. They are little demons who can steal your peace very quickly. Still waters were filled with algae-covered with bugs. If I had my choice of drinking water I would take the running water, still waters seemed so stagnate. I often wondered why David specifically referenced still waters in Psalms 23:2. There were miles of hiking trails and I would hike out past both running waters and still waters. I reflect how, as a child and teenager our family would vacation at my uncle’s cabin in the North Woods. I often imagine that God was just encompassing or surrounding him.
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He gave off a sense of true peace and serenity. I mean we were totally off the grid and I could see my father just stare out over that lake and you would see a physical change come over him. Then my father would take our row boat and go out clear to the other end of the lake. There at the end of this road was a crystal clear lake surrounded by wildlife and woods. At the time it was an adventure, today when I think about it I wonder: “Was my dad nuts or what?” Yet, we made it all the way to then end of that so called road to what I felt was the end of the world. Sometimes we would have to stop to clear the road or repair an old decrepit bridge that appeared to barely hold a person let alone an automobile. From there we would take a dirt road, an old loggers road. I recall how we would travel to Canada taking the highway all the way to where the highway ended. I soon began to suspect catching fish was more of an excuse to get away from the hustle of city life and spend time in the tranquility of a me menuchot, waters of rest. He loved to leave the city and find a little lake, river or even a creek to just sit and fish. Most of us have experience a peaceful time along the shores of a lake, river, creek or an ocean. Still waters in Hebrew is me menuchot which is literally waters of rest. God causes David to lie down in green pastures but He leads him beside still waters. Psalms 23:2: “He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.”