Tag: personal quest
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Ministering like sisters
I’m learning in the last couple of days about President Nelson’s perspective on the gifts that sisters bring to the Lord’s Kingdom and trying to glean what’s that I can improve and ways that I can learn to let them thrive in their gifts.
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Reestablishing Normal
It’s hard to realize that I have gone a week without walking significantly. Of course there were good reasons with camping, Sunday, sickness, and recovery. I didn’t really have an excuse yesterday other than the fact that I was busy for much of the evening and only had time for a shorter walk to get…
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Spiritual Sisu
The type of determination we need can be explained by borrowing a word from the Finnish language. That Finnish word is sisu. It has no good or complete translation in English. Sisu has been described as stoic determination, tenacity of purpose, resilience, and hardiness. Sisu expresses a characteristic that manifests itself in displaying grit, resolve, and courage in the face of…
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Recovery
I was feeling better today and we retrieved the van. I think it needs tires rebalanced and/or an alignment. Tonight I read President Nelson’s youth devotional titled Hope of Israel. I calculated that when he invited youth from 12-18 to join the Lord’s youth battalion I had 3 children in that age range. Of those…
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Finding a place of retreat
I got up early this morning to drive the van key down to Robby Layton in Ephraim so he would be able to get the van off the mountain once he has guys available. Before I left I had a good prayer about establishing a place of retreat which I am calling our place of…
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A sacred space
I want to create a place like the place of Mormon that is beautiful in the eyes of my family where they come to the knowledge of God in their hearts and feel of his love. It could have any number of characteristics but I like to think that it shares the fountain of pure…
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A flood of inspiration
As well might man stretch forth his puny arm to stop the Missouri river in its decreed course, or to turn it up stream, as to hinder the Almighty from pouring down knowledge from heaven upon the {head of David Miller}. Doctrine & Covenants 121:33 This is apparently true today and lately. I practiced the…
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Grow into revelation
The Lord is teaching me through His prophet. Pray in the name of Jesus Christ about your concerns, your fears, your weaknesses—yes, the very longings of your heart. And then listen! Write the thoughts that come to your mind. Record your feelings and follow through with actions that you are prompted to take. As you…
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Family scriptures
If I’m looking for the hand of the Lord in my life it would be impossible to overlook our family scriptures tonight in which both Enoch and Bex stayed the whole time (normally they don’t) and Bex and Mickey both participated in the conversation about who we choose to listen to in life. This was…