roller coaster life

life as a roller coaster.

Life is definitely not a straight walk in the park. . . it has some ups and downs, some rushes and calms, some happy and sad, some excited and disapointed. . . LiFe is full of moments of different kinds. . . a horse of many colors.

So I believe a great way of describing and imagining life is through a roller coaster.

I have always been a roller coaster girl. loved the thrill, the excitement, the rush...eVerYtHiNg. however...this past summer i we took some of the youth from my church to Carowinds, a theme park, and i rode a roller coaster for the first time in a long time.

whoa.

that's all ive gotta say right there. whoa.

I never have the desire to go on one again- the thrills and rushes and everything was just not as exciting anymore. - i did not like the ups and downs, the turns, twists the surprises...i didnt like not knowing what was going to come next. . . all i wanted to do was get off.

Life sometimes can be exciting and fun and enjoyable AND there are other times where the ride just does not seem fun anymore- and all you want to do is get off this one roller coaster ride and go back to the one you enjoyed. Situations in life come and go...some stay for a longer period of time and those roller coaster rides can teach us things and are the good times of life, but other rides are scary and you just do not know what is happening so you get freaked out and just want to get off.

The one thing i did love about roller coasters is when they take the pictures when you least expect it. They always knew when to get the best reaction out of us! even if i didnt like the ride, i loved seeing how the picture came out and usually we would all laugh so hard because of how funny and scared we all looked.

That's kind of how life is too. You know?
We go on this ride, we may not like it at some points- the rushes, the good highs, the bad lows, the twists and turns, the surprise jolts, steep hills and drops. BUT after its all over- you look back and see and laugh and look at that picture of you at some point..at some instance- THAT is why i went through that time- it makes you understand yourself and you may even be willing to go back on the ride- to see if you get the same reaction-or to see how you could react differently. You realize that even in the not most enjoyable times- you could see the good that came out of it later on.

We all go through things for a reason, i am confident of that.

Either God is teaching you something for yourself, or something you can share with someone else later on, to strengthen you, to make you rely on Him, get closer to Him, make you trust Him more...basically to grow more dependent on Him and let Christ be the number one head of your life.

God is the maker and the controller of your roller coaster life.

enjoy and embrace the ride.


{embrace the journey}