Goin' on a Bear Hunt

"we're going on a bear hunt...
(echo)
I'm not scared
(echo)

We're gonna catch a big one...
(echo)"

Why in the world some adult is going to take a group of elementary school kids into the woods in search of a BEAR is INSANE!!!!!  But it's a cute song and it illustrates a lesson I'm having to learn right now.

"grass" - the first obstacle.

"Can't go over it.  Can't go under it.  Got to go through it!"

So this isn't your bermuda or fescue lawn that we are so fond of in the city and suburbs.  This is TALL, Gigantic, Corn-stalk high grass.  

Who knows if there are obstacles or pitfalls in the grass.  Who cares!  Remember we're on a "bear hunt".

So the song progresses and according what version you know can go through grass, a tree, a cave.  It seems that we find these things in our everyday as well.  And the lesson.  Sometimes you just have to keep on keeping on.  Stop stopping.

I am sure that bear hunting is far from my desire - though I've seen two last year on the trails.  But I need to keep on.  No matter the walls that get placed in front of me.  The pits that lay at my feet.  The hills that I have to climb.  Even the cave.  And the bear.

I have to face them all.  I have to remember that I'm alive on this journey and won't relent to the fear that can come from the 'bear'.