As Scott and Mandie prioritize a family emergency, guest host Traci Morrow joins Check Your Vertical, breaking down the value of preparing for hardships, trials and crisis. Spoiler alert: it’s consistent time in God’s Word. When we desire for Jesus to be the source of our peace and joy despite outside circumstances as we’ve seen Scott and Mandie do, we’ll make time in His Word a priority. Traci shares how easy it is in a busy marriage and family to let time in the Word get pushed aside, but shares how when hardship comes, it’s too late to prepare. Instead, she challenges us be intentional to lean in to KNOW God’s word so when trial and troubles come, we have a deep well of understanding of who God is yesterday, today and tomorrow tucked in our hearts. Be encouraged by a wife and mom who didn’t always get it right and what she learned by being unprepared. And please remember to keep the Verlinger family in our prayers as their faith muscle is strengthened in trial.