030126, Sunday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 230.3

BP and Pulse: 129/78, 76

Current Glucose Level: 119 @ 0315

Reported Sleep: 5:19

Yesterday's Steps: 4,441

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

022826, Saturday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 229.0

BP and Pulse: 126/72, 83

Current Glucose Level: 129 @ 0440

Reported Sleep: 7:36

Yesterday's Steps: 3,356

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 22: 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

"This story also shows the goodness of God in protecting Isaac and in providing a substitute so he would not have to die. Because of our sins and our mortality, we, like Isaac, are condemned to death. When all other hope is gone, our Father in Heaven provides the Lamb of God, and we are saved by his sacrifice."

Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Apostle 

My feeling regarding the situation of Abraham and Isaac is that Abraham was tested so that Abraham would know his level of loyalty to God. We now know that even if Isaac had been sacrificed, he would continue to live on the other side of the Veil. Heavenly Father knew that Jesus would continue to live but someone - in this case His Only Begotten Son - needed to suffer unimaginable pain of every kind in order to satisfy justice for all of our sins and wrong doings. Jesus Christ volunteered to do that for us on condition of our complete repentance. To this day, I don't think most of us fully comprehend the depth of the price He paid in order to satisfy justice for each of us.

022726, Friday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 228.3

BP and Pulse: 117/73, 77

Current Glucose Level: 133 @ 0425

Reported Sleep: 5:50

Yesterday's Steps: 3,771 + 40 mins recumbent bike

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 22: 11 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

"How painfully difficult it must have been for Abraham, in obedience to God’s command, to take his beloved Isaac into the land of Moriah to offer him as a sacrifice. Can we imagine the heaviness of Abraham’s heart as he journeyed to the appointed place? Surely anguish must have racked his body and tortured his mind as he bound Isaac, laid him on the altar, and took the knife to slay him. With unwavering faith and implicit trust in the Lord, he responded to the Lord’s command. How glorious was the pronouncement, and with what wondered welcome did it come: “Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.”

…Although we are not asked to prove our obedience in such a dramatic and heart-wrenching way, obedience is required of us as well."

President Thomas S. Monson, Apostle 

022626, Thursday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 226.4

BP and Pulse: 120/75, 82

Current Glucose Level: 135 @ 0430

Reported Sleep: 6:40

Yesterday's Steps: 3,712 + 40 mins recumbent bike

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 22: 9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

"…[T]he experience of Abraham and Isaac was what the scriptures call a type, which is a likeness or reminder of something else. The Book of Mormon prophet Jacob said that the command for Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac was “a similitude of God and his Only Begotten Son.”

Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Apostle 

022526, Wednesday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 226.1

BP and Pulse: 107/69, 90

Current Glucose Level: 130

Reported Sleep: 6:11

Yesterday's Steps: 3,284

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 21: 19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

"We, like Hagar, are required to see “a well of water.” We, like the woman at the well, must ask of the Lord: “Give me this water, that I thirst not.”

…[S]eek instruction in the word of God, both as written in the scriptures to prophets of old and as spoken tonight by a living prophet. See the well. Ask for the water that you “thirst not.” Obtain the promises which are held out to you by a loving Father in Heaven through the atonement of his Only Begotten Son…"

Sister Aileen H. Clyde, Second Counselor, Relief Society Presidency 

022426, Tuesday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 227.7

BP and Pulse: 118/69, 85

Current Glucose Level: 150

Reported Sleep: 7:12

Yesterday's Steps: 4,140

Journal Entry

I had a nice visit with Dr Phillips, my foot doctor, and he pronounced me healed enough to resume any healthy activity I wanted to do such as walking or getting in a hot tub without restriction but to let him know if anything resulted in my foot being worse. This is great news. I need to walk because it's really the only exercise I seem to be able to make myself do and Cathy also loves to walk so we can do it together.

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 19: 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

"Strangely enough, it may be that the simplest and most powerful prevention and cure for…any unclean act, is to ignore and avoid it. Delete from the mind any unworthy thought that tries to take root. Once you have decided to remain clean, you are asserting your God-given agency. And then, as President Smith counseled, “Don’t look back.”

President Boyd K.Packer, Apostle 

This is truly a lesson on repentance. If we truly are repenting of anything we need to not look back with any desire to re do what we are repenting of our even wishing we could re -do. Our hearts need to be firmly in complete support of moving forward for the right reasons.

022326, Monday

Daily Vitals: 

Weight: 228.3

BP and Pulse: 124/76, 81

Current Glucose Level: 144

Reported Sleep: 5:39

Yesterday's Steps: 3,687

Journal Entry

Come Follow Me 

Genesis 18: 32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.

"Abraham knew that...Sodom and Gomorrah and other places—were wicked cities, housing wicked, godless people...[I]n his compassion for his fellowman, he begged and pleaded with the Lord...but apparently there could not be found even ten...who were righteous...

When we see the depravity of numerous people of our own society in their determination to force upon people vulgar presentations, filthy communications, unnatural practices, we wonder, has Satan reached forth with his wicked, evil hand to pull into his forces the people of this earth? Do we not have enough good people left to stamp out the evil which threatens our world? Why do we continue to compromise with evil and why do we continue to tolerate sin? …

We do not believe in situation-itis; we do not go with the people who think that this is a different age, this is a different time, these people are more enlightened, that was for the old times. Always the Lord will hold to his statements that he has given through the ages, and he will expect [men and women] to live righteously, as he has repeated thousands of times through the ages...

What can we do that we are not doing?...What changes can we make that will guarantee righteousness in this world?"

President Spencer W. Kimball, Apostle