I keep hearing the same message over and over, so it must be something I need to hear. Success requires WORK. Brother Alip said, "I believe that when you are given a blessing, you have a responsibility to do whatever you can to bring that blessing to you." And he worked at it. He sacrificed a great amount of money to go to the temple more often. Pretty amazing. The Lord blessed him with a second job, and two temples closer to his home, and then with a new home. We have to work toward what we want, and the Lord will bless us.
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I agree. Sometimes it is our spouse that has a blessing and we are committed to work to make it happen. For instance, I have realized that Emily's patriarchal blessing has several things in it that are much more likely to come to pass if I work to bring the opportunities for them into our family. Such things as being financially ready to go on a mission by the time we retire. Children are another example. When we were married, our Stake President challenged us to work to bring to pass the blessings in our spouse's patriarchal blessing. So I think of her blessings as often or more often than my own.
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