Perpetual Rollar Coaster

Sometimes LIFE just seems soooooo overwhelming. It feels like I'm on a perpetual roller-coaster - whether I'm facing a health crisis,death, my friends' attempts for suicide, balancing overly-full schedules while spending time with classes(or carrier)/ friends, and on and on and on. Somewhere in there should, of course, be some time to unwind, to relax, to have some re-creation time. At some point in the midst of the seemingly endless hectic chaos, I sometimes remember - Oh,yes! - that God is with me even when I forget that God is here to
help and guide me with the next step - even though I don't know what the next step will be. God is here to listen and have an ongoing and growing conversation with each of us and of course with me too. Reminders are so helpful.

I have found that life is so chock-full of choices and possibilities, that I sometimes have no idea which path to pursue. In pursuing a particular possibility, my mind leaps to various alternatives if one path looks like it might be blocked by an impenetrable hedge. I still try to see if the assumption of the hedge is correct, but my mind
races to find other paths - just in case. It reminds me one of my favorite poems, which I read in one random blog or book when I was sitting at Barnes Noble:

"THE ROAD NOT TAKEN"

BY ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

I may not know where the next path leads, but God does.....