revolutions

Everything that has a beginning has an end.

That's the tag line for the third Matrix movie, The Matrix Revolutions. Though the film was criticized on many points, especially regarding the ending, I thought it was a clever general idea to wrap up a trilogy. All things that start must finish. What goes up must come down, and any other idiom you like along those lines. It suggests that there's a natural rhythm to life, an ebb and flow of which we are all a part, a certain reliability of the tide amongst life's troubled waters.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. It's very evident in each of my days, weeks, months and years. I see it with, for instance, this blog. About once a week I really get the urge to write on here. I feel like that should be the bare minimum. I go to the web page, sometimes even log in, but then I get distracted with something else oftentimes and sure enough, it's about a week before that urge comes around strong again. If you look at the dates on my last month of posting, you'll see that I must have gotten distracted in the middle weeks and ended up only posting every 2 weeks, as I am again now.

Some rhythms are in direct competition with each other, and one must inevitably bow out to the other. It's up to us to decide which rhythms continue and which get cut short.

If you'd like to hear more about the idea of rhythm and how it intersects with spirituality, you should come to h2o for the next few weeks, 6:30 PM on Sundays. Right now we're meeting at Trinity Episcopal Church for a few weeks till so.zo (a new coffeehouse and our future meeting place) gets renovated. This is a great series and is something, Billy, our speaker, is very familiar with.

Well, I thought I'd leave you with a picture. A friend of Billy's had a blog where he decided to put a picture of himself up everyday. I'm not sure I'll be THAT persistent, but now with my built in iSight camera on my MacBook Pro (more about the joys of this machine soon) it will be a lot easier to keep you caught up on my day-to-day (or every other day) appearance. Au revoir!