I have been trying to come up with different images to describe my prayer life. In a previous draft of this post I wrote something like, “it’s a roller coaster,” but the aspiring writer in me said, “Wait... that is the most overused image in contemporary reflective writing!” I wanted something different.
Enter Online Thesaurus... result- No luck.
Enter Google. Search term- “descriptive word alternatives for roller coaster ride.” Result- No luck.... just hundreds of thousands of roller coaster themed websites that burned the roller coaster image deeper into my descriptive lexicon.
I hate to admit it, but the image just works. I strap into a spiritual practice and as I start climbing I think to myself, “This isn’t so bad.” But then it levels off and I go plummetting down to the ground! Often this plummetting is exhilarating, but then I wonder, “Is this ride ever going to end?!” And I hear God say something like, “Hey Buddy! You don’t sustain the universe!” And then I jolt back upright and start the climb again... but this time I am covered in my own vomit and missing a shoe. And as horrible as that sounds... I do it over and over and over again!
Many things have reminded me these past couple weeks that it is indeed not I who sustains the Universe. And, although I often think I could, we are all much better off that I don’t! Pray that is never comes to that! Peace turtles!
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