We are called in faith to become a community of believers and then we are sent out to proclaim and share that call with the whole creation. The rhythm that sustains life is the same rhythm that builds our faith.
Life is sustained by the continuous alternation of opposite and contrasting movements: we breathe in, then breathe out; we take in food and water, then we pass out waste. Muscles contract and then relax to perform their functions. Valves in the body open and close to regulate the body. In the greater scheme of things, tides ebb and flow when the moon waxes and wanes; galaxies expand and then collapse.
This rhythm, to my mind, is nothing more that the whole of creation pulsing to the beat of its creator. He taught us that to be born again we must first die; that to gain life one must first lose it; that the first shall be last and the last shall be first; that the greatest is the smallest and the smallest is the greatest. He says “Come to me.” and invites us to a relationship; then he says “Go and proclaim.” the love he has planted within our innermost being.
And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.’ Mark 16:15-20