Gonna Keep Movin'

Life is not a very complicated thing--it's pretty straightforward. You're born, you go through life trying to get as much out of it as you can, you die. That's really all there is to it. Now, stop the pious gasping; "getting as much out of it as you can" covers everything from hedonism to hermitage. There are as many methods and definitions of drawing everything possible from life as there are people. Prayer, Bible study, and witnessing are just as much a manner of this as are drugs, pleasure-seeking, and materialism.
But back to life.... Yes, life is a rather simple concept. It's simply a journey like any other--you put one foot in front of the other; you press on; you keep moving. Until one day your journey's over. Those footsteps will take you through a lot of places and situations. They'll bring hundreds and thousands of people across your path. Some of those places and situations and people will be pleasant, some not so much. But at the end of the day you have to take another step and just keep traveling on.
That's not a well-loved idea when you're in the good times. You want to bask in the glory of success, to enjoy the moment. You cannot. You have to keep walking down the path of your life, and that may very well mean a trial--after all, every mountain has two downward slopes. But this fact comes in handy in the tough times, when you don't want to stay where you are. Don't worry--you won't! Life moves on, and every valley is followed by a mountain.
My family is in yet another valley. So many people are saying things like, "You must be devastated," shaking their heads with pity. Cancer is a scary word, and I understand their sentiments. But cancer is just like any other valley: you get out of it one step at a time. You just keep walking! One foot in front of the other, one day at a time, you keep moving knowing that there's an upside to every hill.