Tag: discipline
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Nothing there
It feels important to record this state. For many weeks now I have felt that Laura no longer seems to care at all about our marriage—like she has again emotionally divorced herself from me. She’s done this a couple of times in the last two years but in the previous iterations she could say least…
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Goodbye Marinette
Tonight I held Marinette as she passed away. She has been struggling for weeks. We thought she was getting better but Mariah saw that she was laying down and alerted me that she was unlikely to survive the night. I held her for over half an hour as she struggled to breath and finally she…
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A Few Degrees
“I believe I was the second most surprised person to learn that I was called as the Second Counselor in the First Presidency, the first being my wife.” Through years of service I have learned that the difference between happiness and misery in individuals, marriages, and families is often just a few degrees. Saul did…
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One Among the Crowd
There was something that set her apart from all others in the crowd that day. Though buried among the thronging mass, she resolutely and quietly pressed forward with a single purpose in mind: to come to the Savior, having faith that He had the power to heal her, that He cared about her and would…
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30 October 2009
I had a good talk with Laura this morning again and had a very nice time at the temple this morning as well. Work was work. At the end of the workday Laura called with frustration over the fact that Alyssa and Mariah took until 3:00pm to get their chores done and would not work…