Growing our Family Tree

Imagine a tree. There are three sections of the tree. There are the branches, the trunk, and the roots. We are the trunk, our ancestors are our roots, and our posterity is our branches and its fruit. A tree cannot grow without its roots, nor can it stay stable. Likewise, we need our roots to stand and grow. When we have children, they are the Fruit of our Loins. After they grow up, our family tree branches out more and our grandchildren become our fruit as well. Imagine the tree were separated into those chunks, nothing to hold the branches to the trunk, nothing to hold the trunk together, and nothing to hold the trunk to the roots. The trunk would split right down the middle, the branches would fall down and die, and the roots would rot and turn to fertilizer for another, better equipped, tree. What is this adhesive holding the whole tree together? The bonds are our Temple Sealings.