All my life, I’ve tried to keep things smooth, calm, peaceful. I don’t like change, especially when it is outside of my influence or control. I suspect that’s one of the reasons I never rode roller coasters. Well, that and intense motion sickness.
My spiritual life lately has been paralleling my personal life, and both have been on a rather wild roller coaster. I feel like things around me are just tossing me back and forth. Just when I thought things were smoothing out, a radical turn in the track throws me in an entirely different direction. Just as things were slowing down a bit, the hill peaks and the ride drops down a hill I didn’t even see coming. Just when I think I can’t take the intensity any more, I roll out at the bottom and the ride takes a new turn.
Just like a roller coaster, though, there never seems to be a slow spot or a pause in the action. Every day is a new turn, a new hill, a new twist. Unlike a roller coaster, it doesn’t end in two minutes, letting me back out of the car at the station.
