Go!

Today's word is GO. I believe I've written on this topic already (in my "MOVE" post) but I know someone who said it way better than I did -- Dr. Seuss. I remember reading this book, "Oh, The Places You'll Go" that was given to a high school graduate and I immediately loved it. Not only is it appropriate for a high school graduate but for all of us as we journey through life. Dr. Seuss keeps it 100. This isn't all of it but it's just as good and can stand alone. And it rhymes, fun read but true indeed, yes I have skill like Dr. Seuss. I hope you know that life isn't easy at times but we can't accept defeat, fight back, stand strong and keep going. Dr. Seuss might've been a Christian too, he speaks on moving mountains. 

"...You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted but mostly they're dark. A place you could sprain both you and elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

And if you go in, should you turn left or right, or right-and-three-quarters? Or maybe, not quite?

Or go around back and sneak in from behind? Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind. 

You can get so confused, that you'll start in to race, down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace

and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, 

headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. 

The Waiting Place...

...for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go. Or a bus to come, or a plane to go

Or the mail to come, or the rain to go. Or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow. 

Or waiting around for a YES or a NO or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting. 

Waiting for the fish to bite, or waiting for wind to fly a kite

Or waiting around for Friday night, Or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake 

Or a pot to boil, or a better break, Or a string of pearls or a pair of pants

Or a wig with curls or another chance, Everyone is just waiting. 

NO!

That's not for you! 

Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing. With banner flip-flapping, once more you'll ride high! Ready for anything under the sky. Ready because you're that kind of a guy! 

Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! 

There are points to be scored, there are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. 

Except when they don't 

Because sometimes they won't. 

I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. 

Games you can't win, 'cause you'll play against you. 

All Alone, whether you like it or not, alone will be something, you'll be quite alot. 

And when you're alone, there's a very good chance, you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare so much you won't want to go on. 

But on you will go, though the weather be foul. On you will go, though your enemies prowl, on you will go. Though the Hakken-Kraks howl, onward up many, a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. 

On and on you will hike, and I know you'll hike far and face up to your problems, whatever they are. 

You'll get mixed up of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many stranger birds as you go. So be sure when you step, step with care and great tact and remember that 

LIFE'S A GREAT BALANCING ACT. 

Just never forget to be dexterous and deft and never mix up your right foot with your left. And you will succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!

So...be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordechai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, 

you're off to great places! Today is your day! 

Your mountain is waiting

So, get on your way!"

Glory to God.