David Journal

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  • Goodbye Pumpkin Spice

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    I forgot to record yesterday that Pumpkin Spice died. I had thought that Chocolate Eclaire looked weaker of the two of them but I realize that Pumpkin was more sedentary. Yesterday while Mariah was cleaning her room she saw that Pumpkin was having difficulty breathing or moving. Eventually Pumpkin stopped breathing. Mariah told me later…

  • Thinking of Christ

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    “What think ye of Christ?” Too often this could simply be shortened to “Think ye of Christ?” “When I think of the different names of Christ, each one evokes different aspects of my relationship to Him.” “The closer we get to people the more we can see their weaknesses but with Christ, the closer we…

  • Perfect Empathy

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    If your foundation is failing then you aren’t built upon Christ. That isn’t necessarily an indictment of you, simply an observation that your foundation requires attention. Watch for the hand of the Lord in your life DAILY. What “small” ways is He active in my life that I am not noticing now? How does our…

  • Another driver

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    Alyssa finally got another chance to take her driver’s test and this time she passed so that she now has a learner’s permit and we get to start training her to be a safe, effective, and confident driver.

  • Periwinkle passing

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    I felt tonight that I should record the death of yet another guinea pig. It happened last Friday with our youngest little sweetheart. Mariah has noticed her getting sick and had diligently called for her for a while and it had seemed recently that she was getting more active but then Friday afternoon Mariah asked…

  • Willard Bean extra

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    I got the opportunity to be an extra in T.C. Christensen’s movie about Willard Bean. I started the experience by arriving 20 minutes past call time due to accidents on I-15. Thankfully they weren’t cutting things close on when they asked us to arrive. After getting costumed up I went to wait near where they…

  • Coming together

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    The plans we set in motion seven months ago are finally coming to fruition. The sixth bedroom is done. The basement is getting carpeted – finishing tomorrow – so that we can begin living in the whole house. And we had our piano delivered today so that for family scriptures tonight we sat singing hymns.…

  • On Forgiveness

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    Joseph Smith taught that we should be ready to forgive our brother at the first intimation of repentance and that if we forgive before they repent the Lord will be just as merciful with us.

  • A day together

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    For the first time in a very long time we had the whole family together. We were celebrating Mariah’s birthday and Enoch was with us plus I had talked to Lily about visiting Ezra sometime so we arranged to bring him with us. He didn’t get to stay overnight but he went with the rest…

  • Labor day

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    Laura wanted to go kayaking today but I had determined that I had too much work to do today. By 6:30 this morning I was unloading the trailer. By the time I woke everyone up (Emma and Noah were already awake) at 8:45 I had unloaded the trailer, designed a shelving system for the garage,…