Life is cyclical and as I get older I realize it more and more. There are highs (and in my life some really highs) and some lows (and I’ve dipped into extreme valleys) and somehow we weather the storm. I’ve had wealth and I’ve declared bankruptcy. I’ve been married and divorced and remarried. Marriages also have their ups and downs.

Last night I had a glimpse of something and it went right along with this “cyclical nature of life” theme. Very young in life, I had a tricycle. I graduated to a bicycle and experimented with a unicycle. As I aged eventually I got a motorcycle and traded up on those a few times. All those different cycles forgotten, rusted, sold, wrecked…and still in my memory. And the next generation starts anew. It seems like yesterday my youngest son was riding with training wheels and now he is ready for his drivers license test. Time flies. And if you are on a cycle of any sort, you are one with nature. It’s not like in a car where you are basically looking out a window at the world. On a cycle you are part of the world. If it has a motor it flies by more quickly, but still you smell the land. Pine trees, flowers, apple orchards, cow manure…not all good smells but all real. One with the world.

I am on another cycle in the midst of an up-swing in the sine wave. The important thing, I have found, is to never give up, never back down. I will continue to pedal my try-cycle, because I know as long as I try, I will have another upswing. I will persevere, to quote a certain chaplain, and I will prosper. How about you? Are you staying on the trycycle or do you need a push? Drop us a line if we can help.