Nox Amicus

It’s been a week since we were last visited by a new moon – making me seven days overdue in posting the focus for this coming cycle.

I had ruminated a lot on topics of Faith last month, and the role it plays in both shaping and distorting our reality. When I was wondering about this month’s focus, I was thinking about how Faith can help lead us toward answers in our lives. As I was thinking the focus could be answers, I started to reason that just as data leads to information, with the right perspective, answers can lead to solutions. So was the focus to be Answers or Solutions? When looking at that choice I thought, “well, maybe I’m supposed to be looking at Questions”?

I sat with that for a few days. I was reminded of an event during my first Christmas break from college in 1981. I came home for the holiday, flush with new ideas and new ways of thinking, and went out to lunch with my girlfriend. As we sat and I was thinking about my first semester philosophy course, and as we were surrounded by the trappings of Christmas in a shopping mall, I asked her “why do you believe what you believe”? When she answered “because they told me to”, I should have known to run then.

How can Faith exist without being questioned? How can we do or be anything in our lives without pushing the limits, without testing, and without probing? Faith is a great path – but it is only the hypothesis, it is not destined to be its own proof. For the New Testament fans out there, we can even look at John 20:27 where Jesus beckons Thomas to test and prove rather than just rely on Faith.

Questions lead to theories which lead to answers which lead to solutions. Each are Dominos – one knocks down the next which knocks down the next. Following the path is predestined, but what we take away from the experience isn’t.

So after all that, the focus for this month is Domino – and yes, it was partially inspired by pizza too – but I want to turn to the band Genesis for a set of lyrics queued up in the attached YouTube clip (“Domino Part Two – The Last Domino” from Invisible Touch):

There’s nothing you can do
when you’re the next in line
You’ve got to go domino
Do you know
Do you know
Do you know what you have done?
Do you see what you’ve begun?
‘Cause there’s nothing, nothing, nothing
There’s nothing you can do
There’s nothing you can do
Do you see, do you see what you’ve done?

“Domino Part Two – The Last Domino” by Genesis from the album Invisible Touch

What’s the next step? What’s the next challenge? Where do we grow from here?

There’s nothing you can do when you’re the next in line.

Have a safe month!!