"The thing about the iceberg is..."

I just finished watching Big Fish in my UCOR class. The movie is filled with crazy cinematography and the fiction story after fiction story is told about his time growing up by the father, Edward. Throughout the movie, the father/son relationship between the two is a struggle. The son gets so fed up with hearing the same stories over and over again that they get so old that he can barely carry on a conversation with his father.

By the end of the movie, the roles have switched. The father asks his son to tell him "how he goes." This part was my favorite part of the movie. The son carries his father down to the river in the last minutes of his life. Along side the path down to the river stands everyone who has been in his life at some point or another. "Everybody's there, and I mean everybody. And the strange thins is, there's not a sad face to be found, everyone's just so happy to see you." What a cool way to go - be able to wave goodbye to everyone who has been a part of your life and who has made a significant impact.

I had the awesome opportunity to attend a worship service at St. Mark's Episcopal Church here in Seattle better known as compline for the first time this past Sunday. Wow. To begin, the church was beautiful. Walking into the place, I was reminded of all the children of God and that this is just one place that they can come to gather and worship. It was such a cool environment to be in for the short 1/2 hour I was. The choir of older men filled up the church with their beautiful voices. I thought, "Wow, this is what Heaven's going to be like. Complete serenity."