Beware of Blue Dots

“In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths” Proverbs 3:6

This verse was brought to my mind in a very literal and meaningful way last summer. Darin and I were hiking in the Porcupine Mountains. Our first stop was to see three waterfalls. The guide at the visitor center told us you could walk along a path and see all three falls. This was an easy, well-structured, boardwalk path.  The guide had also mentioned that if we were so inclined, we could cross the river and see the falls from the other side, making a loop around them. That hike should have been about 2 miles. Along the trail, the path was marked with blue dots to help you know if you were on the trail or not. Well, as we discovered EVERY trail through the forest was marked with blue dots. What should have been…