It's a Roller Coaster

I've been wanting to post the following thoughts from Ann Voskamp and haven't gotten around to it until today.  But it seems especially fitting that this would be my focus for today, the first day of chemo.  Chemo was not in my plans for my life; neither were a lot of things that God has graciously given me.  But I don't need to stress or fret or bemoan my situation.  God is good.  All is grace.  Christ wins.

And I’m wistful for what’s behind and what could have been and I have never traveled this road that lies ahead of us here.
Some days I am even brave enough to say that I am scared — I wonder if bends in the roads can break things.
But I keep turning back to this, me on an axis of my own: Christ wins.
Roads can twist and what untwists me is just that: Christ wins.
I can fall and all hope can fall and the day can skin it’s shins hard and this is a startling fallen world — but what can trip peace when I know Christ wins?
This doesn’t mean I’m negligent and don’t commit  – it just means I already know Who conquerors.
It means I know that the ultimate truth is, that no matter what is ultimately the problem, Christ ultimately wins.
It means I can risk and I can hold on and let go and I can say yes to God — Christ wins. All is grace because all can transfigure.
Christ wastes nothing and He repurposes pain for His purposes and He’ll use up all of creation for His glory.

May He be glorified in me.