2023 December 8, Friday, Journal Entry

I actually played pickleball at our Ward building yesterday morning with three of my pickleball bud. It's not as bad as you might think and there is actually room for three courts in the cultural hall. There were four women there already playing so we set up a second court and had a pretty good time.

I spent the rest of the day helping Cathy finish up decorating the house for Christmas. It looks great and it gives her something to do. She just tinkered with stuff and did it in a relaxing way. 

We are going to a Christmas luncheon today for Service Missionaries from the Bishops Storehouse. Everyone who works there is so nice and friendly. It's almost a snapshot preview of what life might be like after this mortal existence... Just good loving people who want to help others.

It snowed a little last night and I had to put the trash today so I thought I'd try out our "new" snow removal device. In the absence of a real snow shovel, it's better than nothing. I'm not sure how it will do in a real snowfall of several inches. Maybe we'll find out.

Come Follow Me 

Revelation 3 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

"I would like to speak of one particular attitude and practice we need to adopt if we are to meet our Heavenly Father’s high expectations. It is this: willingly to accept and even seek correction. Correction is vital if we would conform our lives “unto a perfect man, [that is,] unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ”. Paul said of divine correction or chastening, “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth”. Though it is often difficult to endure, truly we ought to rejoice that God considers us worth the time and trouble to correct.

Divine chastening has at least three purposes: (1) to persuade us to repent, (2) to refine and sanctify us, and (3) at times to redirect our course in life to what God knows is a better path."

Elder D. Todd Christofferson, April 2011