What is time? Is it a series of slices of the present through which we walk in some vain attempt to change circumstances so that the next slice of present will be better? Is it our opportunity to realize that each slice is part of something bigger, ultimately something bigger than time itself. It's so easy to become overwhelmed with circumstance that we simply shut down and stop trying to take it all in.

To me, it's like a movie. Each frame presents a set of circumstances, an image of what things look like in the here and now. A single frame, though, makes no since without those that came before and after it. Ultimately, the movie itself only makes sense when the sum total of all frames is considered and related to things bigger than the movie.

Maybe that's why I like movies so much. There is something fulfilling about putting a sequence of images into context and weaving them into the larger context of life, and sometimes the larger context of eternity.