The Light at the End of Your Tunnel

From an ESPN post about Mark Herzlich, the Boston College linebacker who missed a season with cancer treatment and is now preparing for the NFL Draft … "Once I got diagnosed, I said a prayer every morning and night to be cancer-free and play football again," Herzlich said. "That goal was what got me here. I've talked to a lot of people going through cancer right now, or who are battling through something, and the biggest problem they have is not having that light at the end of the tunnel. My goal happened to be running out of the tunnel with my team. It got me through a lot of things.

My motto through it all was 'Stay up’. There are a lot of things that can get you down, and staying positive, keeping your head up, always looking forward, that's what I did."

Stay up. Simple. Powerful. Not easy but hard. Do you have a motto? Is it simple and powerful? Is it hard to live by, hard because it is so true?

I like that Mark was always looking forward. I think too he was looking up. I will think about that today … but I know there is always a light at the end of every tunnel I am ever in. His light.