PERSPECTIVE

Perspective is a funny thing.  This is why....We left Boise around noon on Sunday.  It was time to get back to reality.  We were Salt Lake bound.  Just before Burley we discovered that I-84 was closed at the junction, due to low visibility.  We'd have to take I-86 to Pocotello. This detour would add about one and a half hours to our trek.  My sister, Teresa, called us to see if we got through.  Someone she knows had been turned back at Twin Falls because the road was closed.  We thought that was odd, because the roads were bad, but not that bad.  The wind was blowing good and it was snowing, cars had slid off the road all over, even several roll overs.  I've never been so grateful for our Tahoe than this trip.  I forgot to mention that our tv's stopped working, so no movies to entertain the cute kids in the backseat.  We drove out of one storm and right into another.  We were stopped for about 45 minutes in Ogden, all 3 lanes of traffic were at a stand still.  Normally that trip takes us around 5 hours.  Sunday it took us 9! 

My point on perspective is this, we later learned the reason the road was closed at Twin Falls.  A car had slid off the road, so the passenger got out to start shoveling.  Meanwhile, another car lost control, and hit the boy shoveling.  He died in the median on Sunday.  It's a boy that's been back from his mission for about 9 months and was on his way back, with a friend, to Rexburg.  The reason we were stopped in Ogden was because there was an accident there too.  A car slid off the road, a second car slid into the first, killing the driver.  This was a single mother of 3.  Her husband had died 9 months earlier of cancer.  These kids are now parentless.  The moral of this lengthy story is that it may have taken us 9 hours to get home on treacherous roads, we may have been ornery and biting at the bit to get out of that car.  But we made it home safely!  I'm so grateful we were protected.  I've been thinking about the lives that changed forever on Sunday.  Life it too short.