"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next." - Gilda Radner, actor
 
Do you remember Gilda Radner from the early years of Saturday Night Live?  Radner died in 1989 at the age of 42 from ovarian cancer.  She had struggled with the disease for quite a few years before her death and was in a time of remission when she wrote the book "Its Always Something" from which the above quote was taken.  The title comes from one of Radner's most famous Saturday Night Live characters Roseanne Roseannadanna who would often quote an imaginary elderly relative saying "It just goes to show ya...it's always something!  If it's not one thing, it's another."
 
Life in a nutshell, don't you think?  It's always something!  Just when we think we see the light of day, something happens.  Life is never easy - at least not for very long.  Accidents, illnesses, broken relationships, disappointments, unexpected expenses...if it's not one thing, it's another.
 
Gilda Radner's life was never easy.  Like most of us, her life was a combination of good and bad, blessing and curse.  Yet at the end, the greatest lesson she had learned was to embrace the messiness.  She learned that the future set before us is yet unwritten and that there can be peace and serenity found in embracing the unknown and chaotic.
 
There's an old song with the refrain "We don't what tomorrow holds but we know who holds tomorrow."  The cross and the empty tomb declare this good news.  Even in the midst of messiness.  Even in the midst of the unknown.  Even in the midst of death, God holds tomorrow and promises that no matter what today holds for us, tomorrow the stone will be rolled away and we will again know life.