112925, Saturday
Daily Vitals: 232.5, GMI: 6.9, Steps (previous day): 5,987, BP: 124/68, Pulse: 65, Reported Sleep: 4:58
Journal Entry
Erica came over and helped Cathy decorate our home for Christmas. She is really very talented, pleasant and hard working. I'll try to get some photos in here maybe tomorrow. I spent some time helping them and also I put up some garlands on the front porch. We need lights out there too but it's going to be cold this afternoon. Hopefully I can get it done.
I'm speaking at Frederick's baptismal service this morning. He requested me and I'm honored to speak on the topic of the Holy Ghost.
Come Follow Me
D&C 136:31 My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them, even the glory of Zion; and he that will not bear chastisement is not worthy of my kingdom.
"God uses another form of chastening or correction to guide us to a future we do not or cannot now envision but which He knows is the better way for us. President Hugh B. Brown...told of purchasing a rundown farm in Canada many years ago. As he went about cleaning up and repairing his property, he came across a currant bush that had grown over six feet (1.8 m) high and was yielding no berries, so he pruned it back drastically, leaving only small stumps. Then he saw a drop like a tear on the top of each of these little stumps, as if the currant bush were crying, and thought he heard it say:
“How could you do this to me? I was making such wonderful growth…And now you have cut me down. Every plant in the garden will look down on me…How could you do this to me? I thought you were the gardener here.”
President Brown replied, “Look, little currant bush, I am the gardener here, and I know what I want you to be. I didn’t intend you to be a fruit tree or a shade tree. I want you to be a currant bush, and someday, little currant bush, when you are laden with fruit, you are going to say, ‘Thank you, Mr. Gardener, for loving me enough to cut me down.’”
Elder D. Todd Christofferson, Apostle

