Interregnum?  It's a term used mostly in scholarly circles, a word drawn from the Latin for king, "rex."  It means "between kings."  In a recently published book of the same name, author Carlo Bordoni makes the point that although the West has largely abandoned the notion of a grand narrative for understanding itself, it nonetheless is on the verge of adopting this notion all over again.
     What exactly does this mean?  Simply, even though we in the West have decided we no longer need a "master" ("meta," from the Greek word, "mega," meaning "large") narrative, that is, some sort of broad and encompassing narrative to explain our existence, we in fact cannot do without one.
     Decades ago, this master narrative was religion, principally Christianity.  That is no longer true:  Christianity is not the dominant narrative of the West.  So the West stumbled into postmodernity, which is basically a worldview that rejects the notion of a grand narrative.
     However, as Bordoni points out (and many others have, too), the people of the West (indeed, all peoples) cannot live this way indefinitely.  They need a bigger picture to make sense of their finitude.  They need a larger framework to understand themselves. And what does this say about us, we human beings who find ourselves on this remarkable and bewildering planet?
     Just this:  we cannot be who we are without believing in something bigger than ourselves.  This could be a philosophy, set of beliefs, worldview, or something else.  It could even be, gasp, God.  Whatever it is, we should admit that we cannot live without it.
     Maybe that's why God is always calling us.  He knows us better than we know ourselves.