Just Thoughts and Nothing Else

When I think about mountains to climb, I think about that song by "Miley Cyrus"

I think about how all my feelings about the things I've been through in just "my life" came all into focus when I heard that song for the very first time!

Starting as a young married person who thought the world was an easy place to be and really thought that everything would just be fine if I wished it to be true!  Naive to say the least don't you think?
Well never the less, trials and tribulations always happen in marriages and I'm sure in some more than others.
I was also sure that I would know exactly what to do when it came to making my childrens life better than the things that were in mine and again Naive hey?  Some things of course were better for them than what was in mine but there too, mistakes are made and we can only do the best we are capable of doing!  We give fairness, protection, attention, praise, truth, great amount of patience, a bit of knowledge, and most of all, unconditional LOVE!
You strive to be the best parent you know how but of course you will make mistakes.  You pray that you can have few battles when raising your children and you pray that you can keep them healthy and safe!

Your life keeps climbing those mountains along the path of that climb in hopes that getting to the other side of that mountain will be worth it.  But the truth is, "What is on the other side is always a mystery"  Never knowing is part of the intrigue of it all.  Wanting to uncover the mystery makes you keep forging forward.  Wanting to experience the thrill if there will even be one when you get there!

You are challenged through your life with many climbs and trying to make the best of each and every one of them is the key.

I've experienced several climbs in my lifetime thus far, and somehow, some way, I keep getting through them!  Sometimes I just don't know how, but I do.  I guess the old saying, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" really has some meaning!
But I have to say now, that the climb, the path, that I have been given to try and climb this time has been a little different and somewhat challenging this time more so than any other I have been given but I am just now beginning to feel that I need to climb it and get over that mountain more so this time than ever before!
I see that there has got to be light at the end of the tunnel, or more than that, a whole new life awaits me for what I find is over that mountain now, and since my climb has gotten me almost to the top of that mountain, I now know that the climb is almost over because of my time in life. Of course I believe I have quite a few more fun years along the way, but I have to make sure I make the most of that climb.   I have realized that what I have been doing all of my life is that climbing to get to where I need to go some day, but actually I needed to make the climb with all of it's struggles and dreams coming true along the way,The most important part of the struggle to get over that mountain!


The challenges in my life have brought me to a place and time that I think now I have wisdom enough to see clearly what I was challenged all my life to do!  I also believe that since this will be the last bit of climbing I will have to do in my lifetime, I will not let anyone, or anything stand in my way to make it the best climb ever! 
So now all I have to do now, is take a deep, deep breath and take this new path of challenges just to see what awaits me, because I know it's all been worth it!
I believe that at the end of this climb, there will be a much greater place waiting for me and that it really wasn't about what was on the other side, "but the climb"
So as your climb through life keeps going to get to the top of that mountain and over, make "the climb" worth it!  Make every moment count and keep all the memories of the climb with you in your heart always!


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