Daily scripture reflections
Short scripture reflections and practical discipleship notes by David Whitaker. The slow, steady work of faith and the kind of life that has to be built on purpose.
LDS Daily Path publishes short scripture reflections and practical discipleship notes. Each entry takes one passage of scripture and works out one clear, honest takeaway a reader can carry into a day of work, family life, and prayer.
I write the way I build a table: slowly, square if I can manage it, and honest about the parts that took more work than I thought they would. No hot takes. No shouting. Just one idea at a time.
— D.
Most of what I care about falls into the durable category. A table that stays square. A habit that holds in a hard season. A sentence that does not come apart when you lean on it.
I have a shelf in the garage where the tools I rarely use end up. Not because they are bad tools. The biscuit joiner works fine and the lathe is a goo
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I had a piece of walnut a few years back with a knot right in the middle of what was supposed to be a table leg. It looked fine at first, like a featu
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Jacob hesitates at the border, receives divine reassurance, then moves his entire household to Egypt to reunite with Joseph.
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Jesus teaches at the Feast of Tabernacles, promising living water to all who believe and drawing division from the crowds.
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I was in the garage last week sanding the top of a walnut side table and thinking about stones. Not the kind you pick up in the yard. The kind you pic
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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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