Vacation is usually a time when you can relax and enjoy yourself. A time when you can forget about all of life’s little worries. On one recent trip to the Smokey Mountains, however, I was reminded of how precious life can be. My son and I had headed out to spend a long weekend in the Smokey Mountain National Park in Tennessee. Waking up on Sunday morning, we decided that it was the perfect …showed first 75 words of 613 total…

…showed last 75 words of 613 total…and that I wasn’t sure I was going the right way. He said, “all you had to do was stay on the trail”. I thanked him, we changed clothes, and jumped in the water. I don’t know why I decided to take that shortcut back form the truck that day. I just know that next time, I won’t trade a trail that I don’t know, for one that is already marked.