When you think you know everything...

  Last weekend I had to go home to go to the dentist and my lovely car had to go in and get its own maintenance done. Both my brother and I had to go home, and decided why not surprise our mom and come home Thursday night?! Well, since I was in no rush to get home, I took my sweet time to pack and finally get my butt out on the road. I saw that it was starting to snow but I did not think much of it. I have a four wheel drive vehicle, and I didn't think the storm was going to be as bad... I was wrong.
  Right before Beaver, Utah is when it started to get really bad. I started to get really scared. I would just follow behind people but sometimes they were just going too slow and I did not want to be behind them anymore. So I would pass them. Well there was one point in time, where I was alone on the road and I did not know where the road was going. The road was covered in snow, I could not see in front of me, the snow was coming like crazy and I had no clue where I was.
   As I was driving and kind of freaking out, I started thinking on how this experience is like life. There are times in our lives when we know where we are going, we see the road, or we have someone guiding us to the right direction. Than there are times where it gets rough and the road starts going away, and you decide you can do it on your own, so you do.
   Back to my story, after about 3 minutes of driving and leading the way, I realized that I was dumb to go in front of someone, cause I have no clue where I am going. I was worried that I would drive right off the road and not even know it. Than a truck came up and passed me, now I had someone to follow. Yeah they could have ran off the road and I would have followed them, but I just had faith that they knew where they were going. Same things happen in life, you realize that you have no idea how in the world you are going to continue on the road and wishing someone would come up in front of you to guide you. The guide we have is Jesus Christ. He is there to guide us back to the road. He is there to be the one to light the way for us. However, we have to ask for help. Once you realize that you cannot go about this on your own, He is right there behind us willing to come in front to guide.
  It took four and half hours to get home and surprise my mom. I now know that I should not think I know everything. That even though I have driven in a snow storm before, I shouldn't think its going to be the same. Also, that following a guide is not a bad thing. And that honestly, we can't do anything alone. When we are in that dark stormy road all alone, you feel that there will be no end to it, and you realize that you need someone to help you get out of it. Don't be too proud to ask for help. Don't think you know everything...cause guess what... you don't. But our guide, Christ, He does. Follow Him.

He will always help us up and guide us through the struggles of life. :) (one of my favorite pictures)