The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A yawn is a silent shout.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.
Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.
You can almost hear people saying, 'We're going to make a movie about an election' and 'We're going to make a movie about a lobbyist.' You can hear the yawning start across the nation.
How we express ourselves in worship remains up in the air.
Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.
I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god.
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