This ever-changing life is lived in cycles: of want and plenty, ease and trial, celebration and mourning. With its ups and downs, peaks and valleys, it’s less melodious, more pulsating. Call it the pulse of life. Here’s what God told His people they could expect in the land they would live in: But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. (Dt 11:11) They had a rough river crossing to face, but a