Not Time to Worry Yet

I asked myself: Who am I? How would I define myself? What do I stand for?
I answered, first and foremost, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ.
Secondly, I am a professional father.
And thirdly, I am a professional ponderer.

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Quick

I am sitting in my living room looking out the window at my swallows. I love those little birds. They’re darting this way and that, swooping, diving, circling, seemingly just for the fun of it. They’re quick. They change directions in an instant. They look happy, and I’m sure they are. They may look like they’re doing these aerobatics for sport, but they’re actually hard at work. They’re sweeping the air clean of mosquitoes and flying insects.

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Roping the Bear

Each Friday morning we four siblings get together to walk and visit. Today Ellen repeated a story about our father that, surprisingly, neither Tim nor Mac had ever heard.

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Spiritual Traction

Ulisses Soares used a term in his October 2020 general conference address that arrested my attention. He spoke of “spiritual traction.” I want to explore that term.
“Traction” is defined as “adhesive or rolling friction, as of wheels on a track.”

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Time Management

In the just-past general conference Elder Gong told of his wife’s grandmother. The grandmother had a foot pedal installed on her butter churn so that she could make butter,

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I Wish I Had Said That

Most of us are slow on the repartee. Those of us who have that problem could benefit by storing in our minds appropriate responses to be offered when opportunities present themselves.

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Sunday’s Sermons

First pew, right side, as close to Marjorie and her keyboard as I can get without being up on the stand. That’s where I sit each week in the Luganville, Vanuatu Branch.

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