The Safe Way Home

While serving in my second area of my mission in California, I learned a lesson that I will never forget.
My companion and I were in a bicycle area, meaning that bicycle and foot were our only means of transportation. At became apparent that travelling at night would be difficult that transfer. The road home to our apartment was long and dark, and there were few lights in the last 2 miles between our area (Windsor) and our apartment. One night we were riding home from a lesson that had just taken place with a great family that we had only met a few nights before. The journey home seemed especially long that night, and as other times it was very dark. Neither myself or my companion had lights on our bicylces, so we road with with little lights there were from the old dim street lamps. However the closer we got to home, the fewer street lights there were and the darker it became on the country road until the only light we had was the lights eminating from the night sky, and the occasional passing car. Amidst the darkness, I could just barely make out a single white line at the side of the road, dividing the  road and the narrow shoulder where me and my companion were riding. I knew that I would be safe if I stayed on that line. 

Compare this analogy to our lives: as we journey through our mortal existence, we will not see everything clearly, but we will have enough light to find God's plan. His plan, like that white line, will guide us on the path that we should go. There is safety in His plan. But whether we make it safely home or not depends on our following that course that He has set. Let our minds be centered on this plan, and stay true to the course. And so it was with us as we road home. Although we could not see in front of us, we knew that if we would not venture from that path, we would make it safely home. 


















The Book of Mormon prophet Alma taught " For behold, it is as easy to give heed to the word of Christ, which will point to you a straight course to eternal bliss.. a straight course to the promised land.. (46) The way is prepared, and if we will look we may live forever" Alma 37:44, 46

The gospel of Jesus Christ will provide strength and protection for us along our journey. May we each enter into the straight and narrow path and not stray from it.

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