Thanks for sharing, and I love you too. It’s interesting learning things this way, isn’t it?

I will email you privately about my experience and how it came about.

As you know what I have had to deal with over the last 5 months or so, I have had numerous priesthood blessings, all done by Keith with assistance at times, on his own at other times. I kept getting told the same thing but I would ask for another time. I was asking for help in making my mind in regards to the surgery, should I shouldn’t I, did they get all the cancer, did they not etc etc. I kept getting told to use my faith and it wasn’t what I wanted to hear. I wanted a straight yes or no answer. Finally the last time I asked for a blessing I told Keith that I needed him to make sure he asked the right question. He looked at me like I had horns on my head and said ok you do understand that what I say is not what I say but what the Spirit says. DUH of course I knew that.

I have been a member for almost 30 years this fall and that was the very first time that I was ever “slapped on the wrist” for asking the Lord such questions and that he had given me the power of discernment, that I already knew the answer to my repeated questions, and that I needed to believe in my Faith.

After the Amens were done I looked at Keith and he just held up his hands, backed off a few safe steps away and said “It wasn’t me!” I told him it was ok I understood now, that I had been asking the Lord to make my answer right so if something went wrong I had someone to get angry with.

Like you Mary, many many times I have wished the Lord’s time was on the same page as mine.For many many many years I wanted more children… desperately wanted more children, my patriarchal blessing promised me many children. I waited and waited.. never understanding why not. then one day in the middle of an argument with yet another of our teenagers (at the time of this argument we had 3 -16 year olds and 2-14 year olds) and as I stormed off to my room to put myself in a time out.. I got on my knees and the answer came as clear as if Christ was standing in front of me. I knew that He knew one day, I would have 5 teenagers, a husband working out of town and I would have 1 full time job and 2 part time jobs and that my limit would be at peak capacity. I knew then that also having this young toddler/child coming up would never have been fair to that child. I finally got it.

Yup He could have told me that years prior to that moment. Again the same time frame on the same page and as one commenter stated that will be at the top of the list of questions I ask. I am rambling and have completely forgotten the point I had started to make. Just know I love you Mary and that my arms are around you right now.

Oh good, I just wanted to clarify and thank you for your comments, it is food for thought. Interesting experience you share. I don’t know what the answer is.

SS

I don’t blame I would want to know the answer too. All I can say is the time idea that I brought up seems to fit your scenario too, but as well, maybe the millennium is connected to “this life”? I don’t know.

Jon

That has been my experience too. I don’t put my emphasis on interpretation until after something has happened that clarifies. One interesting thing is that I was called a Mother in Zion a full 8 years before I had a child and 5 years before I was married (in a blessing). Not that I ‘would be’ but that I ‘was’ which lends weight to my theory that the time encompasses more than the here and present time that we view.

I think with Patriarchal blessings they are a guideline a “what can happen” rather than the fortune telling material some seem to think it is. And again, it is often after the fact that we understand what was meant.

Most of my blessings during that period were simply ones of comfort rather than ones of instruction and in the end, after a rather dramatic screaming fit falling out. Picture Adam Sandler in the Wedding Singer saying something like “Again, something that would have been nice to know YESTERDAY.”

In the end I found my wife about nine months after that. She having been dumped by her fiancee at the temple the day on Christmas Eve after getting back from a funeral (Ah class).

So in a way the blessings I received were absolutely correct in comforting me while not promising anything big.

My Patriarchal blessing on the other hand is so vague it could almost have been given to anyone.