080524, Monday

Vitals: Weight: 217.5, GMI: 7.1

Book of Mormon review (review of earlier Come Follow Me lessons): Alma 26

Journal Entry 

It's Monday morning and I am still in healing mode from my latest surgical procedure which was only for days ago. My GMI is still at 7.1 but my constant glucose readings seem lower. This means, I believe, that my GMI is going to be coming down again. This is all diabetes stuff in that my Glucose Management Index is roughly equivalent to my A1C and having that under 7.0 is a good thing. I'm thinking I feel good enough to work at the Bishops Storehouse tomorrow or, at least, Thursday and the temple next week. We'll see. The problem is that I still have stitches in from my surgery and I'm under doctors orders to not bend lift or twist so I have to be careful. I'm rambling here but I'm tired of not being able to serve at the Storehouse and the temple. Stay tuned.

Come Follow Me 

Alma 39: 14 Seek not after riches nor the vain things of this world; for behold, you cannot carry them with you.

"Prophets have admonished us to forsake the world and turn our hearts to Jesus Christ, who promised us, “In this world your joy is not full, but in me your joy is full” (D&C 101:36; emphasis added). Said President Spencer W. Kimball, “If we insist on spending all our time and resources building up … a worldly kingdom, that is exactly what we will inherit” (“The False Gods We Worship,” Ensign, June 1976, 6). How often are we so focused on pursuing the so-called good life that we lose sight of eternal life? It is the fatal spiritual equivalent of selling our birthright for a mess of pottage."

     Sheri L. Dew, Second Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency

"Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time. Someone has said, “Three things never come back—the spent arrow, the spoken word, and the lost opportunity.” We cannot recycle or save the time allotted to us each day. With time, we have only one opportunity for choice, and then it is gone forever."

     Elder Dallin H. Oaks Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, April 2001