-watching the movie "Parenthood", and looking for the part where the grandma is couseling either her son (the father--Steve Martin), or some other person in the story. She refers to life as being like a roller coaster ride. Sometimes it's up and sometimes it's down, but when you get off the ride, your heart is racing and you feel exhilerated and alive, and you run around to get back in line. Life, albeit, God; are the ground that the roller coaster is built on, and your life experiences are just the ups and downs and twists and turns of the ride itself. Another good part of a movie is "Bruce Almighty", when he prays instead of for posession of (Jennifer Anniston), to be able to let her go. God's relationship with us is personal; He does unique things for each of us for very specific reasons and they are invariably for our good.

I'm thinking none of the last few posters have found God? Many of us find Him when we are at our absolute lowest, whether it is from self-destruction, or the loss of a loved one (a boyfriend/grilfriend, et al, either to death or just a break-up). We confuse Him finding us with us finding Him ("I found God" and "You found me"). We may start by blaming Him, for our woes ("where were you?" and "why'd you have to wait?"). I think there might be two stories intertwined, here, plus some lyrical fancy to fit it into a the rhythm & cadence of a "song". I think our intimate love for another is like our intimate love for God (or lack thereof) in some very peculiar ways. We come to God when we're down and beaten ("lost and insecure"). I think the writer found love in this partner of his, and paradoxically at the end of that love, found the even deeper love of God. God loves us more than we are even capable of understanding, so at times it can be confusing and mis-perceived, and it is a struggle. Alas, to be human. To anyone experiencing this complex set of emotions (and many of us have), I'd suggest.