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To be offended is a choice we make it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
David A. Bednar
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David A. Bednar
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 15
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Oakland
California
David Allan Bednar
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A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.
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The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints.
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