2023 November 28, Tuesday, Journal Entry

I'm really struggling with the Christmas decorations at the front of the house. Our old garlands with lights are wearing out after I put them up. So I need to take them down and replace them with something else and it is now so cold outside that it's almost impossible. 

Today is Bishops Storehouse and that's always a good experience. And tomorrow I get to go back to the temple. I'm looking forward to serving as the dressing room coordinator even though that means I have to be there at 0445 each Wednesday. It's a little extra responsibility and that's always a good thing when serving the Lord.

I haven't been meeting my step goals during the Thanksgiving week. Part of the problem is that Cathy wants to go with me but when it gets to be time, she has other things to do and I get the feeling she feels badly if I try to go without her. I'm going to the Orem FFC this morning early and getting it done.  It's not a place where she likes to go so I'll go by myself and be done before 0800. Then if she wants to walk later, I'll be happy to go along.

Come Follow Me 

1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

"Just as the Savior prayed that his apostles not be taken out of the world, but kept from the evil of the world, so are members of the Church everywhere praying that by the power of the Holy Ghost and the priesthood they may be strengthened to withstand the “world.”… There is a great challenge in living in the “world.” The concern is not where we live—but how we live. Obedience to the laws of the Lord will bring happiness and peace. We never need apologize for living the standards of the Church."

Elder James A. Cullimore, Assistant to the Council of the Twelve, October 1973