Category: Journal
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In relentless pursuit
I’ve found myself singularly interested in helping Laura take advantage of the spiritual boost from conference while we have opened the conversation. Every time I pray I find myself praying that Laura can discover her joy and motivation and that she can come to internally understand the true nature of the plan of salvation and…
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A baby step
After feeling that Laura needed to act out risk losing any momentum I was praying this morning for her and felt that we should study her patriarchal blessing to look for any clues of what might bring her motivating joy. We studied her blessing tonight and while I’m not sure we identified anything specific I…
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Laura needs to act
I don’t usually like to focus my journal on anyone else but tonight Laura asked for a blessing because she has been struggling emotionally (despite all of our progress with things like could prayer and scripture study). The impression I got was that she needed to actively sell things that would bring her joy and…
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Growing in capacity
When I started walking I would have thought 12,000 steps would be hard to do on a regular day—that I would really have to plan time to make that happen but today I got that done with one lengthy walk (to the church and back but not the shortest route) but through some yard work…
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A textbook day
Aside from Laura being such when she woke up (which required me to take the kids in to school) everything today was what I would consider the kind of day a normal person would have. I was able to get good things done at work, including having a very valuable meeting with the folks at…
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My friend gout
I’ve been struggling with pain in my ankle again the last few days. I’ve been trying to ice it and even though I have been able to do the walking I want to do the pain really has been concerning. This morning after praying that this would not force me to stop my walking like…
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What lies in store?
I started studying my patriarchal blessing in earnest this morning looking for what things the Lord might have in store for me. It became clear that raising my family is the first priority but being that there are many possibilities as I can expect to be giving blessings of healing and blessing people to help…
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How forgetful am I?
I have been frustrated for a long time about living here 6 years and neither of us ever even being asked to give a talk in sacrament meeting. This morning I happened upon not 1 but 2 sacrament meeting talks I have given in this ward, the last one was less than 18 months ago.…
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Temple blessings
I’m not sure what to say about today. I got some work done in the yard and I got the dishes caught up. I managed to reach my 10,000 step goal which was more important to me since I skipped my steps yesterday. More importantly Laura and I went to the temple to do initiatory…
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Deliberate Sacrifices
I had a good day at work today, making good progress on my current main project and taking care of two other small items that had come up in the last few days. The deliberate sacrifices are that tonight Laura and I went to a family party in Midway, at David and Becca’s house, which…