042225, Tuesday

Daily Vitals: Weight: 227.7, GMI: 6.7, Steps (previous day): 2,288, BP:119/82, Pulse: 69 @ 0510

Journal Entry

Kevin's son, Blake, turned 17 today. He is still hospitalized with a serious case of Leukemia. He likes In-N-Out burgers and Kevin arranged with ten of his buddies to come to the hospital and bring In-N-Out burgers and have a birthday bash. Everybody enjoyed it except a charge nurse but we're not sure what she actually did. Anyway we all hope for Blake's well-being.

We serve at the Bishops Storehouse this afternoon and I'm going to the temple tomorrow. After that, I think I have five weeks off during temple renovation.

Come Follow Me 

D&C 38:11 For all flesh is corrupted before me; and the powers of darkness prevail upon the earth, among the children of men, in the presence of all the hosts of heaven—

12 Which causeth silence to reign, and all eternity is pained, and the angels are waiting the great command to reap down the earth, to gather the tares that they may be burned; and, behold, the enemy is combined.

"…[T]he final reaping will occur only when the Father determines that the world is “fully ripe.” Meanwhile, brothers and sisters, the challenge is surviving spiritually in a deteriorating “wheat and tares” world. 

…[T]he engulfing effects of [the] deteriorating world on Church members…is the “clear and present danger.”...The Lord has even announced, “Behold, the enemy is combined.” 

…[W]e must not be intimidated…even though the once morally unacceptable is becoming acceptable, as if frequency somehow conferred respectability!

One of the most subtle forms of intimidation is the gradual normalization of aberration…

Today, lust openly parades as love, license cleverly poses as liberty…"

Elder Neal A. Maxwell, April 1993 (32 years ago)