072125, Monday

Daily Vitals: Weight: 226.1, Steps (previous day) 9,040

Journal Entry:

Had a very enjoyable Sunday yesterday. Our adult Sunday School lessons have become very good with top notch instructors.

Jake and his family came over yesterday evening and we enjoyed dessert treats and games. And had a very nice visit.

Come Follow Me 

D&C 81:5 Wherefore, be faithful; stand in the office which I have appointed unto you; succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees.

"Here Jesus bridges our heavenly upward gaze, to love the Lord, with our earthly outward gaze, to love our fellow men and women. One is interdependent on the other. Love of the Lord is not complete if we neglect our neighbors. This outward love includes all of God’s children without regard to gender, social class, race, sexuality, income, age, or ethnicity. We seek out those who are hurt and broken, the marginalized, for “all are alike unto God.” We “succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees."

Elder Gary E. Stevenson, Apostle

"Since the foundation of the world, the cloth of righteous societies has ever been woven from the golden threads of charity. We yearn for a peaceful world and for prosperous communities. We pray for kind and virtuous societies where wickedness is forsaken and goodness and right prevail. No matter how many temples we build, no matter how large our membership grows, no matter how positively we are perceived in the eyes of the world—should we fail in this great core commandment to “succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees” (D&C 81:5), or turn our hearts from those who suffer and mourn, we are under condemnation and cannot please the Lord (D&C 104:18) and the jubilant hope of our hearts will ever be distant."

Bishop H. David Burton, Presiding Bishop, April 2011