I want to go back to the temple. 🙃
I suppose I could. There’s nothing really to stop me, but I do want to make sure that I maintain balance.
My weekly trip is really good for me–The beautiful spiritual grounding and peace that means so much, the time to be still while I drive, the exercise at the gym, the convenient shopping while I’m there.
So good. 😊
But, yes, balance is important, and serving in the temple once a week is a good balance of my time, I think.
Today, I spent most of my day digitally organizing files–getting all my memorization and other sacred recordings organized into folders on my computer, getting the meta data for all those files edited for easy organizing within apps, deleting all the old files off my phone, and syncing the new files to my phone, and coming up with the process for future file uploading/editing/syncing.
And now it’s all done and functioning as desired, which means instead of random uplifting YouTube videos or random talks, I’m going to be able to listen to all the memorization and sacred files I want–easily.
🥳
So that was pretty much my day. 🙃
I spent gobs of time working on that digital mess, while periodically answering a few questions online, while listening to several uplifting YouTube videos–some really good stuff.
I’ve been learning so much. 🙏
Mucked out the barn, put the horses into and then out of the pasture, ate three-ish meals.
Chatted with Heather and Hans about gospel stuff for a while, chatted about property stuff (hay needs for the horses), and then I spent a bit of time putting together a hay numbers Excel sheet to figure out how much that was needed and how much we could store, etc.
Gratitude:
- I’m grateful that it was a cool day today. I think the high was maybe 59°? So nice. 😊 Comfortable blessing. 😊
- I’m grateful for all of the people who post what they learn online.
- I’m grateful to have been able to get everything organized with my memorization and sacred files today. That’s… kind of a big deal for me. 😊
- I’m grateful to be able to sleep when I want to.
- I’m grateful for the gift of sobriety that God continues to give me. I hope to enjoy the comfortable blessing of having that sobriety continue, but I know that my pride is far from being replaced fully by love, so that pride, until it has been fully replaced by love, will show up somewhere. I know I’m a work in progress, and I know it’s God who’s changing me, so all in His good time. “Though He slay me…”
Success:
- I gave my sincere and worthy effort today. I don’t always remember to write that on here, but I think I give my sincere and worthy effort pretty much every day. I think it’s been a good little while since I’ve had a day with a rebellious heart that bleeds into the next day, and I’m grateful.
- I think there was at least one time today where I started to get frustrated / irritated over something, but I think I was able to shut that down pretty quickly. There wasn’t much to challenge me today in that regard, so I’m not going to say that it represents a whole lot of progress, but I will take the little bits of progress.
Improvement:
- Other than that little bit of irritation, I think I did pretty well today? 🥳
Thought of the Day:
There is not a man or woman on this earth, whose peace is made with God, and who are associated with holy beings, and seeking after holy principles, but their countenances are lit up with a lamp of divine cheerfulness.
~ Brigham Young
Hand of God In My Life Today:
I believe I felt the Spirit today in little ways. Nothing major, just little love notes here and there. 😊
Loves. 🤍
Bring it on.
Lift the World.
~ stephen
Lift the World 