Every scripture reflection and discipleship note David has published on LDS Daily Path. Showing older entries, page 3.
There is a point in every woodworking project where you look at what you have and it does not look like enough. Five barley loaves and two small fish.
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A few years ago I was helping a neighbor tear down an old shed in his backyard. It looked fine from the outside. The paint was peeling but the walls w
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I was in my shop last weekend trying to make a bridle joint hold. The tenon was too thin and the mortise was too wide and every time I clamped it the
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Thirty-eight years is a long time to wait by a pool. You learn the rhythm of the place. The crowd that gathers around the stirring water, the surge to
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Our woodstove sits in the corner of the shop and in the winter I feed it all day. Scraps from the bench, shavings from the plane, the cutoff ends that
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Six verses about conferences, legal paperwork, and why organization exists to serve mercy.
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The silver cup, the silent brother, and the moment Judah stopped being the man who sold Joseph.
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Six verses. After the weight of Isaiah's prophecies, a hymn that changes everything.
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Nicodemus comes at night carrying questions he does not know how to ask. Jesus answers him with the hardest truth of the gospel.
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John 4 shows Jesus talking to a Samaritan woman about living water and healing a nobleman's son by a single word. Both stories are about believing before you see the evidence.
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