That's a line from the song "Saint Augustine in Hell" by Sting. No real significance to anything, it's just one of those lines that sticks with you.
Sometimes you lament because life is uninteresting and stale - other times you pray that life will just give you some "normalcy". I think I can say with conviction that life as I know it is over. Most of the time when you say that you infer that life is over. That's not what the line really means, it just means that things are different and they probably won't be "the same" any more.
The hollywood version of this line is "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore". The newly recruited Apostles must have said something similar to each other when they saw Jesus drive out an evil spirit at Capernaum.
Life as they knew it was over...or just beginning.
The difference is hard to identify, except in retrospect. How many times have we looked back on hard times, painful times, stressful times and realized that even though it was hard things were different from then on. Looking back on it, you realize that you are still here and that the experience changed you.
Peter was simple fisherman, hot-headed, stubborn...strong. We think of Peter as the "leader" of the apostles, a strong, brave man. He spoke at Pentecost, when we were first called Christians. He is someone we look up to and read about - we study what he did, what he didn't do we learn from his mistakes.
I think it's safe to say that at some point after he dropped his nets and followed Christ he said to himself..."life as I know it, is over...".
Praise God for that.
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The line "Ok, Break's over...", in the song, originates as the punch line of an old joke about a man being shown a sections of Hell so he can chose which one to to be imprisoned in for eternity. He views one where everyone is standing around talking, buried up tho their knees in very nasty excrement, drinking tea. He figures this doesn't seem as bad as the other places he's viewed and chooses it as his fate. The devil chuckles, hands him a teacup then utters the punchline, adding the phrase, "...back on your heads!"
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