Wild Ride of Life

Ever Feel like you're on a runaway train going downhill and you’re the conductor. Your responsible for all the people and cargo on the train. You can't stop the train for whatever reason (brakes don't really work) and you are desperately trying to do everything it takes to keep the train on the tracks.

You look ahead and there's another curve you were not expecting. Your stomach knots up and you thing "Oh Lord God, how will I keep this thing on the track around this curve. You feel the urge to jump, but you know that if you do, you will surly die and so will all the people you are responsible for, plus the loss of all the cargo. You frantically work the levers and the buttons to try and control the train and - whew! - you barely make it around another impossible curve and you don't know how.

You keep waiting and hoping that the track will flatten out so that the train will slow down, but all you see ahead is steep grades and blind curves.

Meanwhile, on the train, there are some of the people in coach fighting over the window seat and others in the dining car can't stand the calamari. Most of the people think the train is moving too fast, but not all of them. Some like a wild ride. Some want to jump off. Others sleep. Not very many of them seem to be happy and you do everything you can think of to calm and appease and reassure the people that we're going to make it just fine.

And then...another curve - sharper this time! Woooooh! Barley made it!!

It's well beyond what you could ever control on your own. You could just give up and ride it out, hoping and praying to God that the tracks will flatten out and the train will stop so everyone, including yourself, could just get off and walk away.

You ask yourself, why did I ever get on this train? Did I know where it was headed when I got on? Did I know what the ride was going to be like? Would I have chose to board if I knew what the ride was like - the fast pace - the grumbling and complaining - the curves?

Is this your life? Maybe your marriage or your family? It could be your church or your work place. It is most likely all of this combined in some way to varying degrees.

How do YOU keep the train on the tracks headed to…?