Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Monday, September 21, 2015
yawning
YAWNING
Monday, September 21, 2015
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
Yawning wakes us up and yawning puts us to sleep.
Yawning is an internal alarm clock, an early warning system that is ignored with peril.
Falling asleep is preceded by yawns, whether at the wheel of a car or at work.
Waking up in the morning is preceded by yawns, whether in bed or elsewhere.
Respiratory no doubt, yawning is. But, what else might it be beyond biology?
Super-natural insurgency itself is yawning, operating from afar as a funnel of infectious favor.
“Infectious?” Yes. Your yawn induces my yawn and my yawn your yawn.
Common breath, common source, common summons in baby and in man, is yawning.
Yawning is the breath of God.