1 Nephi Chapter 11 teaches us the story of the tree of life. A little summary of that follows: Lehi has a dream in which he sees a rod leading to the tree of life. In the midst of fog is a large building. Lehi stands at the tree pertaking of the fruit, in hopes he can find his family on the rod coming to the tree to pertake as well. In chapter 11 Nephi sees the same tree and has an receives in interpretation. The tree of life is the love of God, the rod is the word of God, and the midst around as well as the spacious building is the evils and contentions and struggles of the world.

Today we experience our own struggles everyday, are we willing to stick on the iron rod and go the distance? Recently my companion and I have had the great oppurtunity of visiting a chriropractor during our lunch break! As we started going there we at first got an X-ray of our backs which were a little messed up, not bad but not perfect.


The doctor let us know if untreated it could go bad. Likewise if we don't continue straight down the iron rod. If we think "hey we can sway back and forth"(kind of like my back) then we might be just fine at first, but the final outcome is surgical. Luckily we too have a doctor that can straighten out our mistakes just as the chiropractor straightens out my back. Our doctor is flawless, his name is Jesus Christ and as long as we constantly look towards him in all things then we can finally reach the tree of life and pertake of his Love to the fullest measure! Who wouldn't want that?