Patriarchal Blessing Help

?Urvin Gee? receives help giving his first Patriarchal Blessing.

...He told of being ordained a patriarch. He was shocked and intimidated by the calling. He had, if I’m remembering correctly, never even received his own patriarchal blessing, and there were no manuals or instructions. For a lengthy period of time, though, nobody asked him for a blessing. So he began to think that maybe this wouldn’t be so bad, after all. Maybe he would have the honor of being a patriarch without ever actually needing to give a blessing.

But then a boy in his stake — which I vaguely think may have been out somewhere in rural Utah; for some reason, the southeastern part of the state sticks in my mind, though I may be wrong on that — made an appointment to receive a patriarchal blessing under his hands.

He was terrified. He wasn’t sure what to do or that he could do it. He began to study the scriptures, in Genesis and elsewhere, that would give him some sense of what he was to do and what a patriarchal blessing should be like.

In the end, he actually wrote a “blessing” out and memorized it, so that he would be ready when the boy came. When the time arrived, he put his hands on the boy’s head and was just about to begin reciting the “blessing” that he had prepared and memorized. But then he felt impelled to open his eyes. And here’s the crucial part: On the wall opposite him, he saw words, written in light. He sensed that he was to read them aloud. As he read a sentence or a phrase, it would disappear and be replaced by another one.

In the end, he had read off a complete patriarchal blessing — entirely different from the one that he had written out. This, he said, had never happened to him again. But he didn’t need it to happen again. He knew that the Lord would sustain him and that he had no cause to fear or to be concerned...