The Pride Wave

So the other day in Sunday School the teacher was talking about the children of Israel and how they were in this Cycle of rebellion and the resulting misery followed by humility, repentance and the corresponding happiness. I got to thinking about that. For me it is helpful to use graphical representations to identify patterns in life, but a cycle just didn't do it for we because it isn't dynamic enough. So I got to thinking ...What would be more expressive of this pattern in my life? I wanted time to have a bigger more dynamic representation and stills allow for differences in sin and repentance. So I thought about how if you put a dot on a tire and rolled it then graphed the dot's location you would end up with a wave. A wave would be flexible enough to give a more realistic representation of this life pattern. This is what came to me: Some Explanation: (I guess I could have used Illustrator or something like that to make some better graphics but I'm using a tablet PC without much software.) Happiness is on top, as it should be, we approach true happiness as we align ourselves with good principles or in other words, God's will. As we rebel and try to do things "our" way or in otherwords, sin, we fall away from true happiness and head toward real misery. As a quick aside, I take the large percentage of people addicted to alcohol, smoking or other drugs as indication of individuals who are trying to escape from something very real. This real misery can lead people to humility which can prompt them to repent or realign themselves with God's will. That is the base path shown by the blue wave. However, my experience and observation would say that we rarely follow the entire propagation of the wave. More common is the red or green path. The 'I get it' or ' I don't get it yet' waves. The red wave is typical of those that fall in sin and either don't want to change or don't know how to change. I would imagine that those who have addictions would have a life pattern similar to this one. The green wave is typical of those that 'get it'. I'm always impressed by these people. They are all over the place. You can find them in every nation. Finally you will see the close up view of the blue line. This is meant to represent that as we go through life there are many levels of waves. On a daily basis our direction (up or down) changes as does the amount of time we spend in happiness and misery and the degrees of each we experience. The reason this is helpful for me is it allows me to visualize with greater clarity my position and course in relation to God's will. My hope is to spend more time in alignment and the accompanying peace. I would imagine that by identifying sin indicators (those feelings or events that accompany the beginning stages of dissociating from happiness) one could set up in advance patterns which would facilitate course correction (i.e. repentance). Ok... that's it for now. Maybe if anyone reads this and has comments I'll get some more insight one the topic and write more or even re-draw the graphics in Illustrator.