Appearances can be deceiving

Wow! We are back! Our family has always made it a habit to say a prayer before long trips no matter where we are going. This has served us well in the past, but not nearly as well as this trip. Yesterday morning Lonnie had a blowout in the left rear tire of the car. The previous night when we had gotten home from the beach he said the tire was losing air, & it looked like someone had sliced our tire!!! We had not realized that until we got home though & thankfully the blowout waited till he was driving slowly through town. What would have happened to us had we had that blowout going down 695 in Baltimore at 7o mph in 3 lanes of traffic?? Thank you Lord.

Sadly, our family is not very disciplined in reading our scriptures together like we should. But one place we ALWAYS do it is on vacation. We never even make it through the whole vacation, but we always start out our stay by reading the scriptures as a family. This might only last 3-4 days, but it has always brought the Spirit to wherever we were staying. For some reason I do not know, we didn't do it this year. We loved our condo so much & thought it was so lovely & clean that we overlooked the most important thing. Appearances are not everything. After just a few days I realized that "something was missing", but I just couldn't put my finger on it. When I realized what was missing it seemed too late to start or we were too busy or ................... No excuse is good enough. We had a wonderful vacation, decent weather, & hilarious family times, but something was definitely different for me. I don't even know if anyone else realized it. Enough cannot be said for the power of the scriptures & the Spirit they bring.