Blessings

I don't even know where to begin with this post, except to say how grateful I am for the priesthood. Through almost my entire pregnancy I have had one concern that has weighed heavily on my mind. It has kept me up at night and brought me to my knees in tears. There has been nothing I could do to allay this fear in my mind, and no feelings of reassurance that what I dreaded would not come to pass. Until yesterday. Yesterday I was putting away laundry and stumbled across my patriarchal blessing. It had been a while since I read it. I opened it, and there right on the page was one line I must have read a hundred times but it never meant anything to me until now. I could feel the burden of my fears being lifted from my mind as a huge feeling of relief flowed through me. I thought of the day I had received this blessing. The man who gave me this blessing had no idea who I was, but the blessing he gave me came from One who does. It came from One who knew that on this day I would desperately need his comfort and to feel of his love for me. I am so thankful for the power of the priesthood, that we can seek answers from our Heavenly Father and have them answered through blessings, even blessings given years earlier.