WEEDS --   "God didn't trust Lucifer to sufficiently test the gardener or the farmer, so He created weed."  This thought came to me repeatedly this morning as I helped the High Priests Group weed and groom the the large front yard of a widow with a sick child.
         God never wanted us to have a level playing field.  To qualify for God's Kingdom, we have to keep ALL his commandments and enter into and abide by all the covenants which He offers us.  All we have to do to qualify for Satan's domain is to fail in just one of these divine requisites.   Is that fair?  Of course it's not.  
         But, as Elder Neil Maxwell has taught, if life were fair, we wouldn't be sufficiently tried, tested, and stretched to be able to function in the celestial environment for which God is striving to prepare us.
         As every farmer and gardner knows,  weeds have been given a similar advantage over the plants we wish to grow.  They try harder.  They thrive no matter how we strive to make life difficult for them, while the plants we depend on for our nourishment and pleasure often require unreasonable levels of TLC.
         I'm beginning to believe it.  God didn't trust Satan to sufficiently refine us, so He gave us weed!