Saturday morning cartoons including Looney Tunes were a staple of my childhood. Wile E. Coyote chased the speedy roadrunner with ingenious traps that often backfired and left Wile E. flat as a pancake, folded like an accordion or with little birds chirping in a circle above his head. The roadrunner always outsmarted the coyote yet even as children we knew the depiction was imaginary. Over the years, though, the line between reality and fiction in many facets of life has become increasingly difficult to discern.
Several weeks ago, we saw roadrunners in the desertscape of Palm Springs, California. They didn’t look much like the roadrunner I’d seen as a child on television but I enjoyed watching them strut near the shrubs on the golf course. However, when an actual coyote came running down the fairway, it was clear, truth was not relative. A roadrunner who played with the coyote wouldn’t live long. The coyote and roadrunner of my childhood were not real.
Some things are absolutely true and “the first great truth of all eternity is that God loves us with all of His heart, might, mind, and strength. That love is the foundation stone of eternity, and it should be the foundation stone of our daily life….A rewarding, abundant, and eternal life is the very object of His merciful plan for His children! It is a plan predicated on the truth ‘that all things work together for good to them that love God.’ So keep loving. Keep trying. Keep trusting. Keep believing. Keep growing. Heaven is cheering you on today, tomorrow, and forever.” (Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, April 2016)
This is real. Trust in His plan, trust in His way, trust in His light, trust in His Son. Stay the course that has always been true.