Breaks, Pauses, and Interruptions

Caesurae, caesurae!

That's the breaks, literary-ily.

I've had a lot of breaks in life.

Fourth born out of six sibs (my brother and I, in the "center"), raised in a comfy suburb of the Baltimore area, two loving parents, good moral and religious training at home and church, educational opportunties galore, met the "woman of my dreams" (hyperbole allowed here in matters of the heart), blessed with three "arrows in my quiver" (although right now those arrows are out of my quiver, but that's okay!), and answered a Calling that has brought me great joy and fulfillment, some tears along the way, but even more laughs!

I've had a few pauses, too.

That's good, because we all need our Sabbath times, for rest, recreation, and renewal. In answering this Call, I am in a professional career, a way of life, actually, which allows plenty of time to reflect, re-tool, and re-invigorate. And that's a good thing, always, I've found. I thank God for the pauses which come, or which I invite into my life on this earth.

And along the way, yes, there have been interruptions, a-plenty. 

Thank God for them! We work, we plan, then life happens, all its interruptions ... and God laughs. I know God is a good laugher, because, when I look in the mirror, I'm sure God has an over-the-top sense of humor.

Take Jesus, for instance. When he asked the Pharisees for a coin, to answer their question about paying taxes, they gave him one, a Roman coin. But the joke was on them, wasn't it, for having it? I mean, it does have a Graven Image on it, right? And nowhere does Holy Writ record that he gave it back, either (heh-heh). 

Life's interruptions are occasions to laugh at ourselves and our human condition, knowing that it's gonna be alright ... because we know "the Rest of the Story." That Stone was rolled away, after all .. so there's no stone, no interruption, that God and I can't handle, together. I know this much is true! Yea, verily.

Life is full of breaks, pauses, and interruptions.

Caesurae, caesurae!

Long live such moments. We know they're here, and they're still coming. It's the stuff life is made of, eh?

caesura \sih-ZHUR-uh; -ZUR-\, noun;
plural caesuras or caesurae \sih-ZHUR-ee; -ZUR-ee\:

1. A break or pause in a line of verse, usually occurring in the middle of a line, and indicated in scanning by a double vertical line
2. Any break, pause, or interruption.

Caesura comes from Latin caesura, "a cutting off, a division, a stop," from the past participle of caedere, "to cut."