my rollercoaster

it's been a rollercoaster ride today. i've been thinking about rollercoasters today...the ups, downs, sideways, turning completely upside down...the kind that make you scared to death, the kind that make you cry, the kind that make you laugh outloud, the kind that make you so afraid w/fear, the kind that make you wish you would have never got on, the kind that make you wanta get on again and again and again. it's been an up and down day.....i've thought all these thoughts....and cried them outloud....and have even laughed over silly conversations. But one thing about rollercoasters that i've never thought of before is this......they stop. They do the ride, you pay for the ticket, you get in for the time of your life, it slams fast and comes to an intense slow.....and then w/o question it stops. I've used this this topic to describe lots in life...but i've never realized before that the rollercoaster does end....it does stop.

"We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed." 2 cor. 8-9

so...the ride has stopped today and tomorrow may be another rollercoaster day but i do know that it will stop. i'm not crushed, not in despair, not abandoned, and not destroyed. let the ride begin.