Life is like a rollercoaster. There are so many ups and downs, twists and turns. You can have one moment on such a high and then the next moment can be down low. First of all, I’m not a rollercoaster person. My stomach can’t handle the dips! Of course, I’m pretty sure my stomach doesn’t like life’s dips either. :)
There’s a rollercoaster in Kentucky called Thunder Run that is made only of wood. At one point, it was the largest wooden rollercoaster with banked turns at 70 degrees. I rode it once. Let me tell you, that rollercoaster was so rough! Every time we would hit a rough spot, I questioned the sturdiness of the wooden boards holding us up. And our life can even be this wooden, rough, unsteady mess. We would prefer it not be, but it can happen, and it will.
As I look at my own life rollercoaster, I see all those highs and lows, twists and turns. There are some that would be nice to skip over! But when I look back at those times, I see them differently on the other side. There was a time frame about 10 years ago that held my dip…and dip that kept going and going for way longer than the ride was suppose to. The dip got so low that when I looked up, I couldn’t see the top. There was no track to take my ride back up. So I prayed and prayed, but after some time, I gave up. Yes, I admit it. I thought God had turned His back on me so I settled. I settled for believing that I would never see the upwards climb again and nested.
But the beauty of faith and love and having a very firm relationship with the Lord is looking back on those moments and knowing that I was never alone. I may not be the proudest of that time period in my life…giving up and losing hope…but looking back, I would never change it, because it has made me who I am today. And the person I am today is a child of God who knows she is loved and can hopefully use that journey to share with others.
As my pastor Mike Glenn has said, God may not take us out of the situation, but He does promise He will be there to walk us through…that way we won’t be afraid when it comes back again.
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