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Mine didn’t ask me questions like that – sounds like a psychic trying to trick someone – but he did bake an excellent blueberry pie from scratch that we all used afterwards to break our fast. Mine didn’t ask questions like that, either, nor did my son’s. Generally speaking most of the stuff in my PB is just general good advice (like stay out of debt) and I’m OK with that. It really is the few more specific things that cast doubt on the whole thing for me. I’m OK with people believing PBs are inspired and or personal scripture or whatever, just like I’m OK with people who think God helps them find their car keys. Those things happen to be their opinions and mine opinion is different. I don’t necessarily think it’s strange to mark up your patriarchal blessing (I did so in by TBM days), but doing at at enrichment sounds like an invitation to show off how long yours is and talk about the coolest promises. I can almost guarantee someone will go home with their feelings hurt because someone isn’t promised clouds of glory trailing them and their posterity for all eternity. On my mission I had a few companions share theirs with me and I never shared mine. I’m pretty sure it hurt their feelings. Hopefully I was thoughtful enough to tell them beforehand that “show me yours and I won’t show you mine.”
My patriarchal blessing is special to me even though I discount its value now. At the time I received it I felt the advice was incredibly insightful but in hindsight, since the patriarch knew me and my family and interviewed me in detail beforehand, none of it is really surprising and could be considered good advice for anyone (similar to what DJ said). Most teenage boys will worry about girls and about their future success, and words of encouragement will be welcomed.
Hawkgrrl – Quote:but he did bake an excellent blueberry pie from scratch that we all used afterwards to break our fast
I wanna do-over. I got a drive through burger. Dang.
Roadrunner – I don’t mind the marking. It’s personal scripture – So No Big Deal on the marking. It is the groupness and the pinterest that really caught me. The feeling I am getting from the ward online chat is that this a new Mormon Cool. I just don’t think I can buy it. We have a women in our ward who takes her kids when they are 12 to get theirs. Like a rite of passage thing.
Mine has some special meaning to me. Is it a divining rod? No. But a new Mormon Craze is a whole nother bag to me.
West wrote:On another note, before my grandfather died, he gave a verbal blessing to each of his attending grandchildren. I was a little kid at the time, so I don’t remember much, but we did record each blessing. That was nice. And it was a very special memory.
I believe that this is the ideal. A church patriarch is not a replacement for a true life blessing from someone that knows you and loves you like few others do.
I also love that Lucy Mack gave similar mother’s blessings. I’m not sure if she felt that she had the authority since BY had her sustained in GC as a mother in Zion or wheather she didn’t think authority was necessary at all. In the tradition of Lucy Mack, I think it would be cool to get a mother’s blessing. Yet how many LDS women would feel like a grasping radical feminist for attempting to give such.
I worry that in areas like this many Mormons worry about usurping the authority and role of the church whereas from my perspective the church has usurped the role of the family.
mom3 wrote:Hawkgrrl –
Quote:but he did bake an excellent blueberry pie from scratch that we all used afterwards to break our fast
I wanna do-over. I got a drive through burger. Dang.
Either a burger or a blueberry pie sound like a fun way to celebrate afterwards. My stake’s patriarch lives in my ward and is an old codger. My two teenagers don’t want to go to him for their patriarchal blessing, although I think a blueberry pie might convince them that he’s inspired, nigh unto a prophet.
Speaking of do-overs… :angel: I remember briefly feeling like I wanted another shot at a PB. I was kind of bummed that all we ever got was the one PB. Mine was short and generic. I remember feeling stuck with what I had.
Mine did the pre-interview. Other people that were there to get their blessing that day were dressed up in Sunday clothes while I showed up alone (no family) and in normal street clothes. I didn’t know any better.
I don’t think I made a good first impression.
nibbler wrote:
I don’t think I made a good first impression.“Oh great. Here comes another tribe of Gad.”
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“Oh great. Here comes another tribe of Gad.”Sprayed my keyboard from this one.
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