033124, Easter Sunday, Journal Entry

Vitals: Wt. 226.6

Journal Entry

Easter Sunday. Cathy is still too hurting to go to church and I will stay home with her. We have nothing planned for today other than just being home together. The weather is terrible... 37 degrees and wintry mix meaning a cold, freezing mixture of rain and snow. If the weather clears up and it warms up a little I might go for a walk here in our neighborhood.

The Bishops Storehouse was moderately busy yesterday.

Come Follow Me 

3 Nephi 11:14 Arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet, that ye may know that I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world.

15 And it came to pass that the multitude went forth, and thrust their hands into his side, and did feel the prints of the nails in his hands and in his feet; and this they did do, going forth one by one until they had all gone forth, and did see with their eyes and did feel with their hands, and did know of a surety and did bear record, that it was he, of whom it was written by the prophets, that should come.

"He invites each of us to come, one by one, to Him, that we too may know that He is “the God of … the whole earth, and [has] been slain for the sins of the world.” We learn how it feels to be encircled in His love when we accept that invitation.

"I’m certain that each of you has felt, at one time or another, encircled in Christ’s arms. But if you are like me, there are times when you are fearful, when the stress and busyness of life seem to overwhelm you, when you feel adrift from the Spirit. Perhaps you even feel as though you have been abandoned. When I encounter those feelings, the best antidote is my memory of the moments when Christ’s peace has come to strengthen me. So tonight I invite you to remember with me what it is to feel the Lord’s love in your life and to feel encircled in His arms."

Kathleen H. Hughes, First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency, October 2006