Tag: personal quest
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Finding equilibrium
It has now been six weeks of increased effort in scripture study, for weeks of increased effort in prayer, and two weeks of increasing effort in physical activity. It’s clear that I will need to find an equilibrium to maintain all of these things and equally clear that I don’t yet have that but I’m…
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Zero in on joy
I’m trying to find ways to help Laura stay focused on finding sources for her joy but tonight I am also thinking that I need to focus on learning to increase my joy in Christ. In both cases, we need to be looking for joy.
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In relentless pursuit
I’ve found myself singularly interested in helping Laura take advantage of the spiritual boost from conference while we have opened the conversation. Every time I pray I find myself praying that Laura can discover her joy and motivation and that she can come to internally understand the true nature of the plan of salvation and…
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A baby step
After feeling that Laura needed to act out risk losing any momentum I was praying this morning for her and felt that we should study her patriarchal blessing to look for any clues of what might bring her motivating joy. We studied her blessing tonight and while I’m not sure we identified anything specific I…
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Laura needs to act
I don’t usually like to focus my journal on anyone else but tonight Laura asked for a blessing because she has been struggling emotionally (despite all of our progress with things like could prayer and scripture study). The impression I got was that she needed to actively sell things that would bring her joy and…
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Growing in capacity
When I started walking I would have thought 12,000 steps would be hard to do on a regular day—that I would really have to plan time to make that happen but today I got that done with one lengthy walk (to the church and back but not the shortest route) but through some yard work…
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A textbook day
Aside from Laura being such when she woke up (which required me to take the kids in to school) everything today was what I would consider the kind of day a normal person would have. I was able to get good things done at work, including having a very valuable meeting with the folks at…
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What lies in store?
I started studying my patriarchal blessing in earnest this morning looking for what things the Lord might have in store for me. It became clear that raising my family is the first priority but being that there are many possibilities as I can expect to be giving blessings of healing and blessing people to help…
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Deliberate Sacrifices
I had a good day at work today, making good progress on my current main project and taking care of two other small items that had come up in the last few days. The deliberate sacrifices are that tonight Laura and I went to a family party in Midway, at David and Becca’s house, which…
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Another success
Alex will probably forget it because it doesn’t match his narrative but I navigate another confrontation with him without getting upset by calling out his dysfunctional approach to communication and inviting him to do better. He finally came around to asking for what he wanted rather than refusing to ask because he assumed I would…