The Mountain needs climbing

If life was easy, I suppose we could slip right into it and go along for the ride, but I'm thinking that the difficulties make it worth the ride. And who really wants to just slip through life, anyway? And, of course, you can't slip right UP a mountain!
The mountain's a goal, it's the symbol of reaching the top, "Climb Every Mountain", that heavenly tip of snow in the clouds high above to which we aspire. We need footholds to get to the top; fears, losses, disappointments, doubt, setbacks....we get through them, we take another foothold, we climb...they make us stronger, they help us climb higher and higher. To heaven.