Category: Journal
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Things I need
I realized today a few things I need to find a way to do in order to secure my own spiritual and emotional well being. I’ve known that I needed a book club. I realize now that what I need is a forum where I can discuss current topics – primarily political ones – with…
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Lost
Laura have me a thoughtful gift for Christmas explaining that she recognized that for the bulk of our marriage everything was defined around her wishes and her needs and that there was no space for me in the home. This is true and I have stepped side willingly most of the time to allow her…
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Overhaul scripture study
It’s time to overhaul family scripture study. First of all, we need to do it consistently. Secondly it must be rigorous for 2 reasons: We need to model real study for Isaac (among others) and I need more rigor personally – my study has become too rote. Find Elder Renlund BYU devotional from 12/3/2019He indicated…
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Hope in Christ
I have felt at times that I was losing any real grip on hope. I knew the gospel and believe in Christ on a macro scale but for myself felt that I was just hanging on and ensuring with little or no hope of things actually improving for me in this life. Today I went…
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Aggie approved
Savannah received an acceptance letter from Utah State University today. That wasn’t a surprise but it is a confirmation such that she need not wonder anymore if she will have a place to go to school after graduation. Hopefully she is also accepted to BYU but the best news that we would like to receive…
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Face-to-face with Elder Gong
Each youth needs to draw close to the Lord through scripture study and prayer so that they will know what goals to set for their own growth. As classes and quorums we will be planning activities to gather together and share in opportunities to help the group and members of the group to grow. Activities…
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An adventure ends
Today we bid farewell to Jasper. I had always expected that we would have a few months with him after Mitzi died but here we are less than two months later and in the morning when Isaac went to feed him he ignored the food and basically wouldn’t move. Isaac called me down to have…
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Unwavering Commitment
We laud those who bury their weapons of war without leaving the handle sticking out or those who throw their idols into the roiling waterfall. What about those who had no idols or weapons to disposed of? Like the Sons of Helaman we can still chose unwavering commitment. We can take up weapons of defense…
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A cat family
We’ve been talking about getting a cat or possibly two for a while now. When Mitzi died I had promised to get Alyssa another pet and after considering various options we concluded that a cat was something that both Laura and Alyssa could agree on. On Sunday we discovered that the humane society was having…
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Walk away
There comes a point after all the admonition and encouragement when the correct course of action is to walk away. For Nephi it was after his father had died and his brother were again threatening to kill him. I think in some ways we are at that point with Isaac. We need to spend minimal…