Staying Aligned with the Milk Jug by Tiffany:

Growing up on a farm I had a lot of various "farm jobs" in the summertime. One particular summer when I was about twelve years old my dad gave me and my sister the job of moving hand-lines (Sprinkler pipes) in the fields near our house. There was one field that was really hard, for some reason, to get the hand lines straight. It seemed that no matter what we did we could not get the pipes straight. We would get it set up then as we looked down the long line of sprinkler pipes it would be all curvy and veer off in the wrong direction. We would then have to go back to where it started going crooked and unhook the pipe. Then, we would try to hook them up again and try to get them straight. My dad came by at a time when we were so frustrated that we were ready to quit. He asked us what we were doing to get the pipes straight. We proceeded to tell him that we would hook one pipe in then go get another pipe and line it up with the one that we just hooked in. When those two pipes were hooked together we would get a third pipe and line it up with the second pipe. We didn't understand why it was not staying in a straight line. My dad then asked us to look down the field to the very bottom. We did and it was only then that I noticed milk jugs tied every few feet to a fence post. He then told us that the milk jugs were there so that we could line each pipe up with the jug. We weren't supposed to line it up with the proceeding pipe, because if it was off just a little bit then each time it would get off a little bit more, and more until we ended up with a crooked hand-line. We were supposed to look down the field and line it up with the milk jug each time we brought a pipe over because that was always in the right place. The milk jug was immovable and constant. If we lined each pipe up with the milk jug our line would end up being straight. I think this can be compared to our life here on earth. The milk jug is like our savior. He is constant and immovable. We always have his gospel to help us and keep us on the right path. If we are looking to him always then we cannot stray far. We may slip up a bit from time to time but if we focus on him it is much easier to get back to the straight path then if we get short sided and just focus on the very next thing in front of us. He is always there. All we need to do is open our eyes and look further down the field to the milk jug that is there to guide us in the right path.