062426, Wednesday

Weight: 231.4

BP and Pulse: 125/79, 72

GMI: 7.0, Glucose level: 133 @ 0620, Three day Average: 148

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:08, (72)

Yesterday's Steps: 4,358

Journal Entry:

I truly enjoy serving at the Bishops Storehouse. While it's true that we sometimes seem to sit around doing little as we wait for patrons to serve, we often are able to meet and serve those who have very desperate needs. It's rewarding to try to truly help people where we can. There was a time when a woman was in tears because she had no money for gasoline and though we had filled her order for food and supplies she wouldn't be able to get home because she was nearly out of gas. I asked her to follow me the short distance to Walmart where I could buy her some gas. She did and I put $30 worth of gasoline in her vehicle. She was tearfully grateful and gave me a hug. I'm not sure what happened to her later but I felt good about the short term help I gave her.

Yesterday another woman came to our desk. We had filled her order but she couldn't get her car to work. The motor would start but she couldn't get it into gear to even back up out of her parking place. Gordon Gibb and I went out to try to help her but neither of us could get her car working. She was, of course, pretty distraught. We do deal with people who are truly in need. Gordon suggested she call her Bishop for help. She ended up getting a ride from a friend and after transferring her food, etc. to the friends car, she left her car in our parking lot for the time being. 

I can't help thinking about her and hoping she will get the help she needs. We do deal with people who need help and while we do what we can for them we are constantly aware of the needy people in our world and we do what we can for them. I'm truly grateful to serve in a church that works hard and diligently to help needy people. 

Come Follow Me:

1 Kings 3:9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?

"Although the Savior asked us not to judge others, He still expects us to use excellent judgment...Good judgment is needed not only in understanding people but also in facing decisions that often lead us to or away from our Heavenly Father...Many blessings in life are missed because worldly judgment was applied to what was really a spiritual decision."

Elder Gregory A. Schwitzer of The Seventy, April 2010

062326, Tuesday

 Weight: 231.0

BP and Pulse: 126/78, 75

GMI: 7.1, Glucose level: 125 @ 0415, Three day Average: 153

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 7:13 (93)

Yesterday's Steps: 5,039

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

2 Samuel 12:9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

"David commenced well the race, then faltered and failed to finish his course...Lust for power, greed of gold, and disdain for honor have ever appeared as faces of failure in the panorama of life. Captivated by their artificial attraction, many noble souls have stumbled and fallen, thus losing the crown of victory reserved for the finisher of life’s great race.

Concerning those who fall short, John Greenleaf Whittier’s words seem particularly fitting:

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen,

The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’”

Elder Thomas S. Monson, Apostle 

062226, Monday

Weight: 231.7

BP and Pulse: 123/78, 73

GMI: 7.1, Glucose level: 130 @ 0400, Three day Average: 156

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 4:38, (57)

Yesterday's Steps: 8,699

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

2 Samuel 11:26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

"Do you see how David got caught in this trap? He was on a rooftop courtyard of his palace, and looking below in a neighboring yard, he saw something he never should have seen. That was the adversary’s bait. Modesty, chastity, and good judgment required that David turn away immediately and not watch, but he didn’t do either thing. Instead, he allowed his mind to turn to forbidden fantasies, those thoughts led to actions, and things quickly spiraled downward from bad to worse to fatal. David was trapped, and for him the consequences were eternal."

Elder L. Whitney Clayton of The Seventy 

062026, Saturday

 Come Follow Me:

2 Samuel 5:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they anointed David king over Israel.

"The Old Testament frequently mentions anointing with oil as part of a blessing conferred by priesthood authority. Anointings were declared to be for sanctification and perhaps can also be seen as symbolic of the blessings to be poured out from heaven as a result of this sacred act."

Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Apostle 

062126, Sunday

Weight: 232.1

BP and Pulse: 120/77, 74

GMI: 7.1, Glucose level: 136 @ 0420, Three day Average: 157

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 7:48 (92)

Yesterday's Steps: 6,084

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

2 Samuel 7:10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,

"Personal peace can be achieved despite the anger, contention, and division that blight and corrupt our world today. It has never been more important to seek personal peace. A beautiful and beloved new hymn, written for today’s youth by Brother Nik Day, titled “Peace in Christ” declares, “When there’s no peace on earth, there is peace in Christ.”

Elder Quentin L. Cook, Apostle 

061926, Friday

Weight: 231.2

BP and Pulse: 122/83, 69

GMI: 7.2, Glucose level: 123 @ 0310, Three day Average: 160

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 6:07, (73)

Yesterday's Steps: 8,944

Journal Entry:

All readings obtained between 0300 and 0330. 

Serving in the temple as a Temple Worker this morning starting at 0500.

Come Follow Me:

061826, Thursday

Weight: 231.0

BP and Pulse: 128/76, 83

GMI: 7.2, Glucose level: 163 @ 0420, Three day Average: 160

Finger Prick:

Reported Sleep: 7:02, (74)

Yesterday's Steps: 3,651

Journal Entry:

Come Follow Me:

1 Samuel 18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

"...I feel that friendship is a fundamental need of our world...Perhaps...the scriptures make little specific mention of the principle of friendship is because it should be manifest quite naturally as we live the gospel. In fact, if the consummate Christian attribute of charity has a first cousin, it is friendship.

...If our children feel friendship within the family, with each other, and with parents, they will not be desperate for acceptance outside the family...It’s definitely a miracle that those in our family who in younger years occasionally threatened one another with serious bodily harm now seek out and genuinely enjoy each other’s friendship. Similarly, I think no finer compliment can be paid to parents than to have children say that their parents are among their best friends."

Elder Marlin K. Jensen of The Presidency of The Seventy, April 1999