As soon as the kids and I pulled in the driveway and saw the look on Bryce's face as he came toward the car, I knew something was terribly wrong. He was yelling something to me before I could even get the car stopped and the door opened. "It's a sign! It's a sign! It's a sign! I am NOT taking the poster down! It's a sign!" When he got a grip on himself, the rest of the story spilled out. After years of keeping a bikini girl poster on his garage wall (I think it lived in 3 different garages as we've moved over the years), he finally decided it was time for it to come down. As he peeled the top of the poster down a bat suddenly flew out and attached itself TO HIS FACE!!!! With cat-like reflexes, he ripped it from his face, chucked it at the cement floor, and ran out of the garage-possibly screaming like a little girl, although I can't say for sure since we hadn't yet arrived on the scene. We had a quick family pow-wow where heavy discussion was held concerning the belief that the attacking of the bat was a sign that the poster should stay. Brandt and I brought the Joseph Smith praying in the grove story to the table, and it was finally decided that often times Satan (and his bats lol) will attack us and try to stop us from doing good in the world and we have to fight against that and do what we know is right. Bryce was afraid it was still alive, so we went as a family to check it out. Bryce grabbed a shovel and the four of us crept in for a closer look. Bryce nudged it with the shovel and the dang thing spread it's wings and tried to fly off-and that would be when I screamed like a little girl! We were all giggling like crazy and trying to be brave while Bryce finished it off and then hauled it away before taking the poster the rest of the way off the wall. He ended up being the hero for finishing the job he started and teaching us all some lessons in the process. I guess that if this parable is worth anything, I don't have to explain the moral of it here, right?
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