SARDINES!

I almost DIED the other day! Here's what happened...A bunch of us were playing a hide and seek game called sardines. Only in this version one person hides and everyone else finds the one. If you find the one hiding you then hide with them until the last person is left looking. Well, my companion and I were searching in the attic of this mansion and in it there are these little wooden doors that lead to smaller crawl space areas. My companion crawled in first, I followed. Only I wasn't aware that I was supposed to only step on the wood planks under all the insulation! Whoops! So as I'm following her I go to take a step and my entire left falls through the ceiling!!! Luckily I caught myself and was able to pull myself back up before falling all the way through. When I pulled my leg out I could look all the way down to see the closet I almost fell into! That was a close one for sure!
Why do I share this story with you? Well I hope you get a little laugh at how dumb I can be sometimes. But also to relate how important it is that we have a solid foundation beneath us before we try to move forward. Sometimes we see all that we want to accomplish but we aren't patient enough to establish our grounds first. In the Book of Mormon one of my favorite scriptures is this : And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall. (Helaman 5:12)
We must remember that it's not IF the devil with come but WHEN. And when he does, with his storm and winds, it won't be pretty. Who better to be our foundation than Jesus Christ our Lord!
I know we all have hopes and dreams that we want to accomplish but remember to first let our Savior be apart of your life. Work on building your foundation before you try for the big things. It'll be worth it :)