David Journal

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  • Seek ye first the kingdom of God

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    “Prayer is the act by which the will of the Father and the will of the child are brought into correspondence with each other. The object of prayer is not to change the will of God, but to send for ourselves and for others blessings that God is already willing to grant.” Susie Becker: Why…

  • Easily dismissed

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    When I said that I was going to change my focus to minimize yelling at the kids Laura immediately responded that focusing on getting the work done wasn’t the problem. No questioning what I meant to try to understand or considering if I might be on to something – just an immediate dismissal of “that’s…

  • An early Sunday morning

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    I woke up at 6:35 to a knock on my door. When nobody answered my response I got up to investigate and find Enoch at the bedroom door. As soon as I opened it he said, “Dad, let me tell you how to kill a snake.” I guess I know what he was dreaming about…

  • Thoughts on Joseph and the birth of Christ

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    Is it possible that Joseph was less affluent because of accepting Mary after she was found to be with child than he had been before that? Could people have withheld their business from him because they thought of him as sinful for accepting the apparently sinful Mary? (It seems likely that accepting her would have…

  • Guiding good choices – week 1

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    When life is good we can keep making good choices or we can veer off. When life is hard we can keep making good choices or we can veer off. When we are making good choices we can keep doing that or veer off. When we are making bad choices we can keep doing that…

  • Keeping spiritual perspective

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    Sometimes it’s hard for us to see the hand of the Lord in one area of our life but if we expand our view from that one area we will see ways that He is active in other areas of our lives. That is a reminder of how important it is to look for things…

  • Stake conference Sunday session

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    Donald (?) W. (?) Clark Jr. Presiding President Jackson: Our Responsibility (as disciples) to Believe Belief is a choice. We decide what we are willing to believe. The processes by which we seek knowledge in the telestial world are provisionally based on skepticism. These are telestial tools but hardly adequate for celestial pursuits. (nearly a…

  • Population of Jews and Mormons

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    I don’t know where he got the statistics but Brother Nelson said that there are currently about 10 million Jews in the world and about 4 million of them live in the United States. (More than 5 million live in Israel.) That means that Jews and Mormons make up about the same proportion of the…

  • Temple attendance and spiritual endurance

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    President Eyring recommends reading Mosiah chapters 1-5 rather than Luke 2 We are promised strength to bear our burdens as we attend the temple. I wonder if regular temple attendance is the reason I’ve been able to bear up under these last 4 years.

  • Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar

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    Nebuchadnezzar asked the wise men to tell him the dream and it’s interpretation. Daniel answered by telling him his thoughts prior to the dream as well as the dream and its interpretation.