052126, Thursday

Vitals: 

     Weight: 230.6

     BP and Pulse: 111/69, 72

     GMI: 6.9, Glucose level: 115, Three day Average (May 18-21): 151

     Reported Sleep: 5:08

     Yesterday's Steps: 4,839

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me 

Joshua 5: 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

"For every infirm man healed instantly as he waits to enter the Pool of Bethesda, someone else will spend 40 years in the desert waiting to enter the promised land.

...The point is that faith means trusting God in good times and bad, even if that includes some suffering...That can be difficult in our modern world when many have come to believe that the highest good in life is to avoid all suffering...

...I too suggest that “one’s life…cannot be both faith-filled and stress-free.” It simply will not work...saying...“Lord, give me all thy choicest virtues, but be certain not to give me grief, nor sorrow, nor pain, nor opposition. Please do not let anyone dislike me or betray me, and above all, do not ever let me feel forsaken by Thee or those I love. In fact, Lord, be careful to keep me from all the experiences that made Thee divine. And then, when the rough sledding by everyone else is over, please let me come and dwell with Thee, where I can boast about how similar our strengths and our characters are as I float along on my cloud of comfortable Christianity.”

...Christianity is comforting, but it is often not comfortable."

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Apostle