Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Tanya Wilmoth. We made it all the way to with Starbucks in Iowa

before I opened the back of the car and before three suitcases a cooler and a bag of shoes

fell out in the parking lot.

I really tried to keep my cool.

In fact, I didn't raise my voice

while I pulled every other thing out of the back of the car

and slammed it onto the parking lot pavement. I doubt anyone could even tell I was

frustrated while I reloaded all seven suitcases and six backpacks into a perfect

Tetris formation. I'll let you wonder who brought to suitcases. See we were about five hours

into an 11-day road trip that's been on our calendar and affectionately referred

to as Wilmouth's drive across America.

So I slammed the hatch door shut before anything could fall.

I wiped my hands together and I said to anyone watching with total amazement,

you should always let a woman load the car.

No one was watching with total amazement, by the way.

Now when people heard about our plans to drive from Missouri through Iowa and South Dakota and then

Wyoming and Montana and Idaho, we either got pity or mad respect.

I think they were trying to picture all six of us, most of us adult

sides by now, smushed into the car for that many hours, and they were right. But I would say the

trip was a solid 10. Maybe it could have been a 12 but all deduct two points for the relational

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