Oh The Places You’ll Go! If you didn’t know already this is a Dr. Seuss book. Someone gave it to me and after I read it to Keenan a couple of times I realized it applied to adults, probably more so than kids. I wish I could type the whole book out for you to read but I can’t so if you get a chance, pick it up.
So as you read through this book it focuses on the highs and lows of life. You will start out on a great path and life will soar you to new heights; until it doesn’t because sometimes it won’t. Life is going to send up’s and down’s but don’t stop pushing because life is not going to stop moving. The are going to be some scary turns to unforeseen places in which we will have to go, but stopping should not be an option.
Last year I started volunteering at the Salvation Army. Sometimes I serve meals, we have decorated a room for a family to move in, but we often hold a church service there. Every time we have service the worship is AMAZING. I have heard some of the stories that these men and women have to tell. Their twist and turns include waking up in crack houses and not knowing what happened just hours before, having a gun held to ones head by someone so strung out they didn’t know what they were doing, being in the jail of physical abuse…..I can keep going but you get the picture. The location we serve at is a transition facility in which people are living in order to enter back into the real world. The horrors life has thrown them; they don’t have a home, probably no job, and most of them do not have their children with them. Yet, when we have service there they worship like God has blessed them with a billion and one dollars. Granted some of their problems were based upon their own decisions but if you be completely honest with yourself, how many of your problems are a choice of your own? Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
Life is a lesson. ONE BIG FAT CONTINUOUS LESSON! Even if the mistakes are not your fault, we all know the saying….”LIFE HAPPENS”, (please know life was not the word I wanted to use) but when it happens what are you going to do about it. You can sit there sulking life away or get up and plan to move forward because life is not going to stop moving. If you don’t want to get left COMPLETELY in the dust don’t stop. Your kids are not going to stop needing, they are not going to stop growing, and they are not going to ever not need molding. Even if they are the ones who made the mistake that affects you your love and response is what is going to keep them going. Your love and response towards your own situations is going to teach them either how to prevent those problems in their life or how to move forward when his or her problems come. OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO!
Enjoy the ups while they last and learn the lessons from the lows life will send while you endure through it. Christian or not the bible says, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.” You are walking through not planted in the valley and the presence of death (in this case; life’s challenges) is a mere shadow. One thing I want to point out though…..earlier I said the people at the Salvation Army worship like God have them a billion and one dollars. I don’t know everyone’s story and some of you reading may have the same background. However, If I were a betting woman I would bet that most of you reading have a roof, your children are with you, and while it may be bad its not as bad as I mentioned. We can look at people in low places and most of them are so much more grateful and appreciative of EVERYTHING life has to offer. Don’t let your haughtiness prevent you from learning lessons from someone you may think to be lower than you. We all have a story and everyone can be used by God. As you go the places you go embrace it all and learn everything you can to embrace the good times life has to offer so that you have something to hold on to while you endure the bad times.
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The Sophisticated Boy
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