Stones and Bread

I love the trees in Zion's National Park. They jut outo f impossible places. Some grow right into the rock. It's as if they don't care that there is little soil. They suck any life from the rocks. They make me think of Miss Firecracker who could always "take it in the chin."
Life can thrive in the most unlikely of places. There is such greatness in someone who rises above horrible situations or hardships.
"Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?" (matt 7:9)
Some really are given stones when they needed bread, but somehow they defy all by finding nourishment from the stone . . . even if it's just from the warmth the stone absorbed from the sun.
How is this possible? Is it because they know to take the stone and then turn to the true source of nourishment?
". . . my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst." (John 6:32-35)

"Fear not, little children, for you are mine, and I have overcome the world, and you are of them that my Father hath given me; and none of them that my Father hath given me shall be lost." (D & C 50: 41-42)