David Journal

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  • Know thyself

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    One of the big messages of Wind and Truth (Storm light Archive #5) was about people coming to truly understand and accept themselves—their limitations, their strengths, their desires. I feel like I’m in that same process with myself. One thing I am coming to learn about myself is how much I enjoy being able to…

  • Christmas activity

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    Laura noticed a couple of weeks ago that there was a Messiah sing-in and decided she wanted to go. In the end it was only Laura, me, and Emma who went but we had a good time even though they skipped many of the choruses and Emma and I had a hard time following along…

  • Pushing through

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    I’ve felt that I was slowing down or running out of steam and so I’m looking forward to Christmas break but today I got a push at work as Mark asked me to help with replacing the old ignition servers and ignition database server at Big Cottonwood. In four years I’ve never done any work…

  • 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…