David Journal

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  • Christmas begins

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    Bex arrived home today and I think that officially starts our Christmas season. We will now have at least 1 extra person here for the next 2 weeks. Perhaps that is what prompted Laura to do the dishes even though she’s still feeling just a little sick. If I’m lucky she’ll make a habit of…

  • Imperfectly perfect

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    Today didn’t look like the template of how I hope/plan to spend Sundays but I feel like I was making the right choices throughout the day. I didn’t read anything in Saints but I did choose to spend a good deal of time playing games with the family. That’s the kind of thing where it…

  • A possible foothold

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    After Laura expressed a sentiment I really understood—the lament of feeling outside the active interest of Heavenly Father—I decided to see if that could be a foothold to talk to get about making goals and adopting a creator mindset instead of a victim mindset. I decided that instead of going home after our play we…

  • Back to normal

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    I seem to be over whatever has me feeling slightly under the weather yesterday. I was able to go walk like normal and everything although I did take a nap between 8 & 9 in the evening.

  • Running on the margins

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    I had hoped to use my time this evening to tidy some things up (especially my area but possibly Emma’s room) but instead I spent most of the evening in bed trying to stay warm. I get the feeling that my body is feeling pushed. I’m only up this late because I had to get…

  • Having a task

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    I find that it is easier to focus when there is a task to focus on that is big enough to demand real attention. Small tasks can be handled quickly but they don’t demand focus. Today I found myself tracking a task that was just big enough to demand that attention but also small enough…

  • Prayer reset

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    I did a review of my notes on prayer practices this morning to see how I could improve my practices again (things felt like they were getting stale). It felt like a very positive review and I’m hopeful that my prayers will be stronger again going forward. It was a great way to start out…

  • Identifying our weapons of rebellion

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    How do we identify our weapons of rebellion? In priesthood meeting Brother Chang brought up President Benson’s Beware of Pride and it made me think that if we actively look for any enmity in our heart—either toward God or others—we will find most if not all the weapons of rebellion that we are harboring.

  • The faulty implications of “after”

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    Laura really wanted to go to the Festival of Trees today (last day) and so we went this afternoon. Unfortunately after we arrived there I realized I didn’t have my wallet and we weren’t able to find another way to pay so we just had to go home. The greatest part of that is that…

  • Portraits of Christ

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    I volunteered at the Christmas Creche event that our stake puts on each year (this is the 3rd year). Most of the time I was in the room called Portraits of Christ which was full of paintings of Christ—mostly original works. It was beautiful but also fun to see the way people were moved by…