I was on my way home yesterday evening which is an hours drive and I started pondering things I had read in the Book Of Mormon. I am in 4th Nephi and trying to read the whole book by the end of this month. I started imagining an apple tree full of ripe apples. The apple tree was full and ready to be harvested. The harvesters gathered up all the apples but one. This apple had been eaten on by a worm and it was starting to rot. The apple had lost it's goodness and felt it could never be a good apple ever again. Eventually, rains and storms came and knocked the sad little apple loose from the branches. It fell onto the ground and started turning into a rotten mess. The apple felt so sad and ruined and longed to be a good apple again. One day a huge storm raged through the apple tree fields and the rain came down in torrents. The apple had given up and let itself be washed away by the flood. Earlier that day one of the harvesters had dug a hole for a new tree to be planted but left his work quickly due to the upcoming storms. The hole was fresh and well dug and the soil was rich and plentiful. The apple washed into the hole and the soil buried it deep in the earth. The sad apple had decided that this was its fate and that it should just let nature take it's course. Then something amazing happened, the apple tree started to grow from the seeds that had been planted by the storm in the hole. The happy reborn tree pushed it's way through the soil and dug its roots deep in the ground and grew with love and patience into a beautiful apple tree.

So what does this mean to you?....

It means to me that we sometimes have the good ruined within us but if we are patient and have faith we can be "planted on gospel sod " and re- grow with love, patience and above all faith.

We too can be like that apple tree....

I welcome your comments and share with me what you think this thought meant to you...

Tags: Faith Forgiveness

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