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| One way to retype your blessing is ONE paragraph as a CHAPTER. Then ONE sentence as a VERSE. |
Our Ward leadership has asked us to study our patriarchal blessings in 2025. This is a renewed opportunity to read with understanding hearts and minds what God's will for us is, as stated in this, our personal scripture.
Whether short or long, our blessing has some hidden insights to guide us during these last days before the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. It will help us be prepared. It was given for this very purpose: to guide us, give us joy and hope, to increase our faith and let us know our role in His latter-day work. We are His children and He knows us intimately. He can see around the corners and knows the beginning from the end. He is, after all, omniscient.
I have studied my own blessing diligently since 1999, using it to set annual goals and more importantly, to see how I'm measuring up in doing what Heavenly Father wants me to be doing. In 2012, I began this blog to help others gain insights into their own personal scripture. At that time blogs were blossoming everywhere on every topic. My efforts viewed through the lens of 25 years, seem to be a little repetitious and long, However, I still find new and exciting things in my own studies and just like in studying the Bible's Old and New Testament, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price, each reading draws me closer to the Spirit and revelation distills upon my soul.
Ever few days I will suggest a thought that may be helpful to you. Today's idea is to look for phrases or actual scriptures quoted by the patriarch who gave you this blessing. Ponder and ask yourself why did God want you to view this as especially "your" scripture.
If there is no phrases like that go to the very ending of your blessing and see what is so special about those last couple sentences.
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