Hold up on that blue haired buffet, we need a quick powwow with the shoot eating panda:

• A woman, without her man, is nothing.
• A woman, without her, man eats with his hands, plays poker with his friends, kickstands his Harley in the den, and leaves the toilet seat up.

See what a difference a dinky comma makes?

But Gov Ed’s warehouses have long since given up on gramma’s Grammar, real Math and honest History; and instead release looters and statue-topplers with groovy vibes about their ignorance. A mediocre but fully funded future awaits them in some acronym’d bureaucracy, possibly the highway dept.Some ancient texts were also a little light on punctuation (and vowels), giving those quill and scroll scribes and your thumbsy tweenage daughter something more in common than just funky footwear.

God am I that know and still be. ^{Psalm 46:10}

Biblical Hebrew was also written backward, and who knows what they would have done with a comma had they done had one.

But just the same, the comma is there today, pencil’d-in by prescient English translators to rein-in run-on manuscripts; and found in the most common and widely held Biblical renditions:

KJV
ESV
NIV and, of course…
The BQE

Yo, like relax dude, I am the 𝐈 𝐀𝐌.
                ^{via The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway}

And it matters. Black punctuation matters. Because conjunctions and punctuation are not interchangeable, and are as equally essential as they are equally unequal.

So, what’s the difference between a comma and grandma’s cat? Well…

A comma is a pause at the end of a clause
And grandma’s cat eats, sleeps, and poops wherever he wants

…kinda like conjunctions and quite unlike commas – the steak and eggs of clear thought and concise meaning.

Because 𝐏𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐦 𝟒𝟔:𝟏𝟎 is not: 𝐁𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐆𝐨𝐝.

But rather: 𝐁𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥,

Be still… comma. Pause – wait here. Take a moment before moving on, because this is important.

… and personal. Replace the comma with your name: Be still ________ .

Listen, your first reaction was probably more an over-reaction than a course of action. So, before you dial up those gossipy ladies of the back pew prayer chain, just stop. And in the solace of bended knee, think on this:

God already knew what the problem was and knew what the answer was before you even knew there was a problem. So..?

Calm yourself
Take a deep breath

…𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐀𝐌 𝐆𝐨𝐝.

Now let’s eat, grandma.

Level Ground
There’s a baggage check at the altar. Come as you are. Don’t leave the way you came.

Sonrise
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice
and be glad in it. ^{Psalm 118:24}