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Within a leaf is the whole design of the tree and within each part of the leaf, a self-similar design. You may have seen something similar in a leaf. Guess what! We could zoom in a billion times to magnify the detail and the same mini-replica would emerge with these subtle intricate changes. Zoom again, another self-similar design decorated by slightly different borders. When any section of this form is magnified, we see the same pattern in miniature with slight variations. We won’t get into mathematical technicalities here, but for now, observe what happens as we magnify just the small rectangular portion marked on the image. It’s a design that has been generated on the computer through an equation. This image is called a fractal it’s part of what is known as the Mandelbrot series-Mandelbrot is the name of the scientist who discovered it. All things, say Nephi and Alma, typify (that is, teach or denote) something about God. Take a peek with me into the divine geometry of nature. What might life events look like from God’s view? Let’s increase ours together–look up, step back a few feet. Perspective gives us patience, purpose, and a place for our emotions-even transforming them. I just wanted to stay there for an hour-! I felt her spirit capture the joy of “things as they really are” from a loftier perspective. In retelling her experience, she remarked, “Wow, Mom! I gasped! I didn’t know it could look like that.

#Images of lds scriptures full#

We lifted my eight-year old daughter, Talia and held her up over the retaining wall in the back yard where she glimpsed the world from a few feet higher than her usual vantage point, observing a creamsicle-colored full moon and the twinkling of many lights of a nearby development.

(This is Part I of a reproduction of a fireside presentation to Mormon Youth on October 21, 2001.)