“I swear this is the exit,” I thought as I carefully guided the car off of the exit ramp with both of my kids in the backseat. Both of them were anticipating our soon arrival at the Akron Zoo where we were going to spend a few hours enjoying the snakes, lemurs, and the always amazing komodo dragon! Ty, my ever observant and non-directionally challenged son, was the first to speak up, “Where are you going, dad?” I didn’t answer him immediately because I was still attempting to figure that out myself. I made another turn in, what I thought to be, the right direction. ”Dad, you were supposed to get off on the Dart Avenue exit,” Ty said. ”Great! Why didn’t you tell me before I took this exit,” I thought to myself. ”You need to get back on the highway and take the next exit,” he said. Ty is almost ten years old and has a sixth sense when it comes to maps, directions, and recognizing when his dumb dad is traveling the wrong way. I just need to listen to him more often.
“Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him.” (Psalm 127:3)
