Roller Coasters

Its been so long I think I start every blog off like this, this is proof that I need to update this more often! I have been told many times that I will write a book and right here right now I know that that book will one day be called Freedom's Song by Hannah Hooker, there is is! I guess I should copy right that sometime soon before some other legend takes it! What a whirl wind I have been on over the last year an emotional roller coaster that I am still traveling, they say that life is like a roller coaster, and you know what I would say? I would say that they are right. This roller coaster we call life is an unknown journey of ups and downs and round about's we don't know the journey from day to day we just one day where we will end up! I remember clearly the day that I had my first REAL roller coaster ride I was about 17 and it was a beautiful sunny day I boarded that thing shaking in my boots, buckled up and waited in anticipation and slight horror for the start of the journey too begin! I had never experienced this before, I didn't know how it would feel or even how it would go BUT I somehow knew that it would be ok, I didn't know the manufacturer that had made the roller coaster I didn't even know the operator who was about to release me to fly around this perfectly put together track, yet somehow I boarded that thing with a quite confidence. I didn't question how, why or where I just did. And so off I flew stomach lurching, eyes watering and lungs screaming and we dipped and dived I remember squealing with fear yet utter delight all at the same time as the final drop lay before me I clung to my seat belt closed my eyes and flew... I felt my stomach somersault into my throat and then back down again! As I opened my eyes we came to a slow and steady stop! And that was it! I had ridden, survived and even enjoyed this roller coaster ride. And so I ponder now how this thing called life really is like a roller coaster, we go around the track we experience the highs and the lows, we squeal with fear and then with delight, we feel our stomach fly into our throats, And at times we close our eyes and cling on hoping for the best and riding out the massive dip that lays before us. And then at the end as we get off or slowly come to a halt with slightly shaking legs and we stand and we somehow know that despite the fear, the terror and the ill feeling as we rode we are better off for the ride we have just embraced or endured. You see our life really is like a roller coaster we don't always know where we are going, we cant always see the track, the one difference however that is vital to this roller coaster we call life knowing our operator and knowing the track designer and knowing he is ALWAYS faithful.. So as I ride my roller coaster, currently still not knowing the complete track, still climbing to a high, still clinging on to my "seat belt" I know that I am safe.. I know that my manufacturer of both my roller coaster and track has a plan for me that is only good and a plan that will prosper me, a plan for a future and a BRIGHT hope I will ride and I will ride with delight, I will ride keeping my eyes fixed on that which is unseen and I will ride knowing that at the end of this particular roller coaster I am better off than when I first got on.