God said:
Sometimes you feel that your Life has a Life of its own, that your Life is a runaway like the Little Gingerbread Boy in the folk tale where a little old woman baked gingerbread men. Gingerbread was her husband's favorite food. One day, a newly- baked gingerbread boy, born with a Sense of Self, hopped out of the oven and ran off. The old man and woman chased the Little Gingerbread Boy who called back over his shoulder:
"Run, run as fast as you can.
You can't catch me.
I'm the gingerbread man."
Later, a cow and a horse and a chicken started chasing the Gingerbread Boy, and he called out over his shoulder:
"I've run away from a little old woman,
A little old man,
And I can run away from you, I can!"
And so the story goes. And so, it may seem to you that you can't catch up with Life that is always hanging around the corner. To this day, and perhaps more and more, you haven’t caught up with the Little Gingerbread Boy. Life keeps whizzing along. You are still ready for a day off from life, a day where you are not chasing it, yet such a day never comes. You still wait for Life to slow down so you can catch up with it.
You wonder: "Where in Life is the pause that refreshes?"