Another part of my study journey helped me better understand how I might bring forth the promised blessings in my life, i.e. patriarchal blessing.
From a beloved most recently passed prophet, President Thomas S Monson (speaking of some seemingly unattainable promised blessings…
These were beyond the reach of those whom he had blessed. He whispered that he had tried to withhold the promises he knew were unattainable. It had been no use. The inspiration had come, the promises spoken, the blessings provided.
—Thomas S Monson
“What shall I do? What can I say?” he repeated to me.
I replied, “Brother Fetzer, these blessings have not come from you; they have been given of God. Let us kneel and pray to Him for their fulfillment.1Your Patriarchal Blessing: A Liahona of Light—Thomas S. Monson, Second Counselor in the First Presidency