David Journal

Tag: personal quest

  • Double purpose

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    I was feeling unwell this morning and having thoughts from my scripture study when Bex came in to brush her teeth. I invited her to sit down so I could tell her what U was thinking and what I wanted for the family. She saw it as me asking for her perspective (which I was)…

  • A place of shelter

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    How do we make our home place of shelter from the heat and from rain? In short, how do we make a place of refuge? Perhaps a more critical question is, can we have a refuge and still include everyone? I think the answer needs to be “yes” but that requires that we find a…

  • A cloud and smoke by day

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    How will we recognize the cloud and smoke by day and the pillar of fire by night that the Lord will create upon every dwelling place in Mount Zion? I am working to build such a dwelling place for my flock.

  • Roadblock

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    I really want to get my fediverse/ActivityPub integration working before I start publishing the 2028 platform information because sharing that content is important to my goals. So far I am not getting it to work.

  • POTUS Candidate platform 2028

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    I have decided to develop and share a theoretical platform for a 2028 presidential candidate. It won’t be a platform I would expect to be supported by either party but it will be what I think would be the best platform for the country and what I will use to evaluate whatever candidates we have…

  • Still easing in

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    I’ve gotten pretty good at relaxing in the evenings mostly not on my phone (lots of reading) but I’m also feeling like I will be best served by not simply converting to reading in place of mobile games/Facebook/Twitter/YouTube. I want to make sure I’m also doing other things like working in the yard as the…

  • Surrogate parent

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    Alex informed me that Ezra played a game we have forbidden on Alex’s VR. When I told Ezra that would be a problem he informed me that Enoch had been playing another game that should be equally banned. I brought up to Alex that Enoch was not allowed to play that game and he point…

  • Another potential tool

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    Our ministering brothers visited this evening and while talking to Brother Stufflebeam I learned about another potential tool for rebuilding our family. He’s into RC airplanes but interestingly they are pretty cheap build-it-yourself planes. I’m going to get more information from him but the idea of building a place of a few planes that we…

  • Another recovery

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    After I wrote last night Alex settled down enough to actually talk to me. He told me about an incident earlier in the day where he felt like he was being ignored by Laura (she felt he was chastising her in that earlier exchange). I was able to get him out as he expressed the…

  • Swimming in molasses

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    I understand the feeling that Nephi is expressing here. His frustration isn’t related to the gravity of the sins so much as it is the feeling of powerlessness. It’s along the lines of “my desires are righteous but I just can’t seem to act on those desires the way that I thought I could or…