Circumstances, of course, change from day to day. One day you're banging your head against the wall, the next you find away around the brick obstruction and things are happy again. Good, bad, happy, sad. How to escape the roller coaster?

Hmm.

I wonder if there's anything in the world that doesn't change. For anything. Ever.

If we could just find that, then boom, the roller coaster could become a steady 55 mph drive over a smooth highway.

If only it were that easy. It is, in theory. In practice, it seems like there can be times of quite a bit of roller coasting action. But like CG says, the hard times can act as a catalyst to help us form a deeper, more passionate relationship with God.