I had an experience this week that really reinforced the power of blessings for me. We had our home teacher come over on Monday night to help me give Karen a blessing.
It's a funny story, actually. I had called him earlier to ask him to come over some time that night and he said he would be over around 9:00. We waited patiently until after 10:00 figuring that he just got held up with what he was doing. We finally called over to his house to see if he was still coming over. He had totally forgotten and was already in bed. We tried to tell him he could come the next day, but he insisted on coming over anyways. He lives just a few doors down so it wasn't that much of a chore to run over here.
Anyways, he showed up and we gave Karen a blessing. While he was here I asked him to give me a blessing to help with my job search. He did and all was well.
The next morning I started thinking about the interviews I had had to date. They frequently involve a technical quiz and that is something that I really hate. I always feel like I'm unprepared and that I don't present myself the best during them. I decided to put together a study sheet of all of the questions I had been asked in my recent interviews for which I didn't have a good answer. So I started researching and putting stuff together. Beyond putting stuff down on the study sheet I did a fair amount of reading in general and educated myself on a variety of topics.
I had an interview later that day and one on Thursday. Both involved technical quizzes and both had questions directly answered off of my study sheet. While there were still questions to which I didn't the answer, I came off seeming to know far more than I would have if I hadn't done the studying.
I know that I was inspired to do that studying and that I would have been much worse off without it. Even if I don't get the jobs I was interviewing for I know that it will help me in the long run and it has definitely become part of my testimony of the power of blessings.
It's a funny story, actually. I had called him earlier to ask him to come over some time that night and he said he would be over around 9:00. We waited patiently until after 10:00 figuring that he just got held up with what he was doing. We finally called over to his house to see if he was still coming over. He had totally forgotten and was already in bed. We tried to tell him he could come the next day, but he insisted on coming over anyways. He lives just a few doors down so it wasn't that much of a chore to run over here.
Anyways, he showed up and we gave Karen a blessing. While he was here I asked him to give me a blessing to help with my job search. He did and all was well.
The next morning I started thinking about the interviews I had had to date. They frequently involve a technical quiz and that is something that I really hate. I always feel like I'm unprepared and that I don't present myself the best during them. I decided to put together a study sheet of all of the questions I had been asked in my recent interviews for which I didn't have a good answer. So I started researching and putting stuff together. Beyond putting stuff down on the study sheet I did a fair amount of reading in general and educated myself on a variety of topics.
I had an interview later that day and one on Thursday. Both involved technical quizzes and both had questions directly answered off of my study sheet. While there were still questions to which I didn't the answer, I came off seeming to know far more than I would have if I hadn't done the studying.
I know that I was inspired to do that studying and that I would have been much worse off without it. Even if I don't get the jobs I was interviewing for I know that it will help me in the long run and it has definitely become part of my testimony of the power of blessings.
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Blessings are so cool that way. I'm not sure how Heavenly Father manages so many blessings at so many levels-- kind of like little time bombs that go off right when you need them, except kind of layered. Hmm. Maybe time bombs isn't the best metaphor.
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