1 Nephi 3:27

27  And it came to pass that we fled into the wilderness, and the servants of Laban did not overtake us, and we ^ahid ourselves in the cavity of a rock.

            -the earth, since we are taught it is a being in its own right and is in the process of filling the measure of its creation, is a friend to those who are about the Lord’s business.

 

            -some truths we learn from the Book or Mormon record are of tremendous eternal important, others are more trivial.  From this verse we learn very clearly that the servants of Laban are slow and the sons of Lehi are fast.  Other than what this may say about the importance of caring for our physical bodies (and adhering to the Lord's law of health, whatever form that may take in a particular dispensation), this fact falls among the trivial truths contained in the record.... although if the pace had been reversed and the servants were faster afoot, the entire trajectory of the future Nephite and Lamanite society would have been different.  But this was not a situation an omniscient God would leave to chance... God is in control of the trajectory of man and ensured that the pace of his servants would exceed those who would foil their purpose.  One wonders if even Nephi recognized God's unseen hand in what surely appeared to be a failed endeavor. God is often in those situations we esteem to be blunders, failures and frustrations.  Are we wise enough to see it?  There is so much that mortal man is not capable of seeing.