“To feel the Rhythm of Life,
To feel the powerful beat!
to feel the tingle in your fingers,
to feel the tingle in your feet”

This familiar tune celebrates the rhythm of life in its vibrant energetic beat. But it’s celebration is more than just a catchy jingle. The song is more than a toe-tapping rhythm. We actually catch the tune, and tap to the beat because it finds a resonance in our heart beat… The concept of the song is about catching the stuff of life that keeps us moving, acting, engaging. It is the rhythm of creation, the cycle of the seasons, the ebb and flow, the character of life in all its complexity.

This week as we reflect specifically on the rhythm of life, we are not sitting in the glib happiness, but the significant movements of our days that take seriously the rhythms of reflection and action, of youth and age, of good and bad. The art in our gallery embraces celebration. And it also calls us to remember the larger movements of struggle and pain – the movement from -to. Indeed, are these not the movements of the psalms that acknowledge both the threat of any given circumstance alongside the constancy and closeness of God. Nathan Nettleton puts the psalm in these words :

Those who put their trust in you, O LORD,
……..are like Mount Dandenong:
…………….solid, calm and dependable.

Like the mountain watching over the city,
……..so you, LORD, watch over your people,
…………….offering protection, now and forever.

I encourage you to take the time over this next couple of weeks to listen to the stories of the artists, and sit with the art, and feel the rhythm of life in the heart beat of a God who loves you always!