David Journal

Tag: April 2015

  • The Lord Is My Light

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    As individuals we can thrive and bloom on a world that is hostile to righteousness if we are planted in the love of God. We must have hearts knit together on love. While we appreciate cultural diversity we strive for unity in {a culture of gospel centered love}.

  • Truly Good and without Guile

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    Shiblon was apparently a son who wanted to make his father happy and to do good for good’s sake. Great women and men are always more interested to serve than to have recognition or dominion.

  • Latter-day Saints Keep on Trying

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    I have no idea what this one is even about. As God allows us to keep trying He also expects us to allow others to keep trying as well. If we don’t try we’re just latter day sinners. If we don’t persevere we’re just latter day quitters. If we don’t allow others to keep trying…

  • The Music of the Gospel

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    “I can teach you to dance but you must hear the music.” Sometimes in our home we teach or children to dance but we don’t teach them to hear the music. We learn the dance steps with our minds but we hear the music with our hearts. No power or influence can or ought to…

  • Why Marriage, Why Family

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    This sounds like a really good talk on marriage. I’m busy parenting so I can only listen tangentially. Even if you aren’t able to have the ideal circumstances (not being married or unable to have children) everyone can contribute to the building of succeeding generations.

  • Therefore They Hushed Their Fears

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    One of the first effects of the Fall was for Adam and Eve to feel fear. Correct knowledge of and faith in the Lord can empower us to hush our fears. I’m still settling in after having a rough start to the session technically. We entirely missed a display of someone vocally opposing some or…

  • Why Marriage and Family Matter—Everywhere in the World

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    At the Vatican colloquium on marriage a Muslim scholar from Iran quoted two paragraphs verbatim from the family proclamation. The older I get, the more I realize that family is the center of life. (My nine decades on earth fully qualify me to say this.)

  • Choose to Believe

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    Perceiving spiritual light is different from seeing physical light. We will not accidentally come to believe in Christ anymore than we would accidentally pray or pay tithing. Sometimes we can’t see the light, such as if we are down in a ravine, but when we can see the light it confirms that we are in…

  • The Parable of the Sower

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    The parable of the sower He isn’t speaking about those who represented wayside and never received the seed. Those who have no root are committed to the social benefits of the church rather than the gospel itself. If you are texting or whispering when the sacrament is being passed you are clipping your spiritual roots.…

  • We’ll Ascend Together

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    I like how she shared quotes from the members of the First Presidency regarding their wives. A husband is never more attractive to his wife than when he is fulfilling his God-given responsibilities and priesthood duties. Male and female spirits are designed to complete each other not compete with each other.