20160205 pathway

Week 4 pathway Journal 20160202 Today it was hard to even read my scriptures. I did it but it was a very busy day. Yesterday I started or tried to start at least three times. It's too busy with work and r eying to do everything. I need to do what I was doing before which was take a break from my game. Today I played on all of my breaks, which meant that I didn't take the time to meditate. And since I didn't I have felt rushed and overly busy and burdened. Tomorrow I will take some time and walk without being on the phone. Then I can also take some time during the day as a large block and read without breaking it up into little pieces. 20160203 I wasn't feeling well today. My morning break wasn't really a break at all, and was way too close to lunch. I ended up sleeping on the floor for a little bit at lunch. Been feeling like the main thing that I get out of meditation and getting rid of distractions is that almost instantly my focus changes as well as my perspective on life and eternity. Instantly I become present in life and my current surroundings rather than off in another place. 20160204 It is all about balance in life. Being able to balance time, commitments, duties, the things that need to happen and the things that I want to happen. Balancing needs and wants. Making sure that my wants are not overtaking my needs and that my wants are good and useful. 20160205 I've looked back I er the past few weeks and months and I don't know if I've really seen a change. I feel like there has been, as I've been able to spend more time in mediation prayer and pondering. And I've been learning and on track with progressing in the traditional AL sense of doing something good. Bit actual tangible change within my soul? I dint really know. I feel a little more at peace bit u feel like that has waxed and waned on its own in my life almost irregardless of what I've done or gone through. The same situation in different periods of my life would yield different fruit depending on that waxing g and waning of the peace wihin. In otherwords, I don't know how much I've changed and how if at all my actions and effort have affected it. Attributes of Christ: show. Reflect on the last 4 weeks write a one page paper describing the changes you you have noticed and experienced within yourself What difference has it made in your life to do this activity? When you look in what do you see? How has your chosen attribute manifested itself as you study the Scriptures? How have your efforts affected your relationship with deity? Sometimes I feel like my prayers are still bouncing off the ceiling? Like my a relationship with my heavenly father neither improved nor deminished, but my efforts have increased. study skills report Using an example from this week's scriptural block show how you apply the skill that you studied. Identify specific inside that you gain and highlight how to study skill was a purpose to helpful for that particular passage. How can mastery of this study skill help you to better to do better in this course particularly regarding the attributes of Christ activities or in your personal life? My setting example acyltaully comes from an earlier reading area, specifically Alma 39:1-3. Alma speaking to his son corianton, the black sheep of the family as it were. Not really, but he was with his father and brother among the zoramites, but wasn't a good example, fell into sin and ran after the local women, or at least one woman of ill.repute. the setting is a simple.one, a father talking to his son and trying to correct his ways, give advice etc. I've been here. Alma did something that you don't do as a parent. In verse 1 "...have ye not observed the steadiness of thy brother, his faithfulness, and his diligence in keeping the commandments of God? Behold, has he not set a good example for thee?" he basically says why can't you be like your brother? This to me showed the human side of alma. He wanted his son to be more stalwart, he wanted to encourage and correct some behavior. It worked, corianton corrects his ways and repents. We don't know much about their relationship , as far as we know they never had any other problems etc. Being a father and having molded and shaped my children or tried to, I've never used the tactic of be like so and so. Comparison breeds contempt. But it shows that prophets aren't infallable. I had mentioned this in class and the response was he must have been inspired that it would work. That to me reinforces the ideal that prophets are infallable. I have room in my faith for leaders to make mistakes, as it was said by Brigham Young that ppl put too much faith in what their leaders say and do not prove their words. Learning report. What did you enjoy most about this lesson?. I liked the gathering and learning as a group, mostly it has been good to be there to help others , as I feel.like I know most of this first hand. So I am able to help p with Excel and the math problems If you met your goal last week what have you learned from working on your goal? What do you think you need to do differently if you did not reach your goal?. I think about the goals you set for next week using points senses write down the one smart goal I met the goal from last week at about 80%. I learned to work on the problems that I struggled with and spend less time in the stuff I already knew, rather than go through the whole exercise and do addition, I skipped to the parts I needed to improve on Smart goal Continue