052425, Saturday

Daily Vitals: Weight: 226.6, GMI: 6.5, Steps (previous day): 9,318

Journal Entry

Blake passed away at about sunset yesterday. We will be going through the sadness and other issues for the next few days. Cathy and I are considering driving down to Arizona so we won't be boxed in by airline schedules and car rental issues. More later on that.

I feel badly for Kevin. He has been a great dad and had worked so very hard to try to save Blake but... I hope he will remember that Blake is still alive in the spirit world and will be his son forever.

In addition to all of that he has to constantly battle Kim who seems to get great satisfaction from trying to make his life as miserable as possible. On the other hand he now has Becky who seems to be everything to him that Kim was not. He's getting more used to being treated like the good husband and father that he is and he appreciates everything Becky has done and is doing for him. I don't think he was ever treated well by Kim. Enough about that. Hopefully the funeral details will be over soon and Kim will move up to Utah and peace will be a big part of his life.

Come Follow Me 

D&C 50:19 And again, he that receiveth the word of truth, doth he receive it by the Spirit of truth or some other way?

20 If it be some other way it is not of God.

21 Therefore, why is it that ye cannot understand and know, that he that receiveth the word by the Spirit of truth receiveth it as it is preached by the Spirit of truth?

"I have come to better understand how vitally important it is to receive by the Spirit. We often focus, appropriately, on the importance of teaching by the Spirit. But we need to remember that the Lord has placed equal, if not greater, importance on receiving by the Spirit."

President A. Roger Merrill, Sunday School General President, October 2006

This is a concept that needs to be forefront in our thinking throughout each day of our lives.