Feeling Fabulous Friday: Roller Coaster Ride

It seems like life for me lately has been a real roller coaster ride. I know that we all go through peaks and valleys in our life, and that is perfectly normal. However, what I am talking about is the hopeful, thrilling and joyful highs of life...followed by the sudden, swift and frightening decent into the pit of despair. There have been so many emotions swirling around inside of me in the last couple of months, that I could be my own theme park! It's quite exhausting to live that way, but I will take the roller coaster ride anyday over the frozen tundra that I was before!

You see, I know the reason for the sudden changes in my emotions... It is the Lord's way of bringing healing! He is causing me to stand face to face with the things I fear and the mistakes I've made. He wants me to get a good long look at them...and move on!! He wants to replace my ashes with beauty and my winter with spring. He wants to make me new, but to do that, he has to get me to fully let go...to throw my hands up in the air in surrender like a kid on a roller coaster!In order to really feel fabulous again, I have to stop pretending that I can fix myself and give everything over to Him in full abandon.

While going through some of my forgotten CDs today,  I found a great song that talks about finally letting go and letting God take control. It is han open and honest prayer

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Lyrics:

I'm at the end of myself, I just dropped out of the running
I don't recall when I last pulled the shades and said "here comes the sun, here comes the new day"
Someone remind me again that joy might show up on ocassion
I'm sitting here with my hands on my head, and my eyes on the ground, wondering if I'll be found by You

Will you make me new? Will you take what's left of me?
I guarantee that it won't be a fair trade.
Will you set me free from what's keeping me afraid?
I know I've prayed it all before, but I'm back on the altar

I don't believe what they say about one foot in front of the other
If my life was a map, you'd see every last step just circling around, still lost, never found by You

So will you make me new? Will you take what's left of me?
I guarantee that it won't be a fair trade.
Will you set me free from what's keeping me afraid?
I know I've prayed it all before, but I'm back on the altar

Maybe last year I'd have made empty promises
Maybe last month I'd have tried to pull strings
But I don't have one single chip left to bargain with
The only thing left is me needing You to make me new

Will you take what's left of me?
I guarantee that it won't be a fair trade
Will you set me free from what's keeping me afraid?
I know I've prayed it all before
But I'm back
On the altars:



So, the tip for this Feeling Fabulous Friday is to put your hands up in the air and try to enjoy the ride, as bumpy as it may be. Fall on your face before the Lord our God and find your freedom!