David Journal

Tag: inspiration

  • Not completely solo

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    I talked to Laura about the feeling that we are at the beginning of a transition to a new phase of taking our family to a new promised land (culturally). I still think it’s work for me to do at this point, that Laura isn’t ready to help with something as nebulous as it is…

  • Things that matter most

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    Bishop played a video clip in our combined Elders Quorum/Relief Society meeting where Elder Uchtdorf recommended that we slow down. I immediately recognized the talk and realized it might hold some keys for the feeling I had 9 days ago.

  • The process of mortality

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    An outline of what I recognized— When Eve made the choice to eat the fruit she only had partial knowledge to inform her choice but by the time she invited Adam to join her she had more knowledge of what she was asking. One of the things she knew by the time she approached Adam…

  • Staring a conversation

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    I’ve been thinking about likely needing to get 2 new cars within the next few (probably less than 3) years. This morning I was thinking about that as $40,000 that I definitely won’t have. Then I thought about the fact that I can expect to keep working for at least 20 more years but for…

  • Slow down

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    I’m not sure why or precisely how but as I was driving home from the company party tonight I had the impression that I should try to take life more slowly. It was somewhat vague but the feeling was to leave space/time to be patient, to respond to prior, to keep a little capacity in…

  • Beginning the journey

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    Yesterday I was filled with a desire to receive a vision of what the Lord had in store for my family in line with the vision that keep received for his family. (It doesn’t need to be a vision in the literal sense but an inspired knowledge regarding the Lord’s plan for this individual family.)…

  • Desirous that I might see, and hear, and know

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    As I started reading this morning I began receiving impressions about how/why the mind is able to convey so much information in dreams. To a large extent it is because it is capable of manipulating perceptions of time and magnitude which allows for more complete conceptions of concepts related to eternity and infinity—concepts that are…

  • Spiritual Instruction

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    Teach, understand, and live. Teach principles of the gospelAs we prepare we are taught by the Spirit. Teaching the way Christ did revolves around telling stories very often (sometimes true, other times parables). Telling stories help make things memorable and relatable. Of the short, three year, ministry of the savior only about 31 days are…

  • Stand in Holy Places

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    You may think that those in the world are having more fun than you. I promise there is nothing that brings more joy than keeping the commandments. Our values are not negotiable.