23-year anniversary of my patriarchal blessing.

I happened to glance at the date on my patriarchal blessing tonight and was surprised to see that it said April 2, 1991! Wow... I guess I'm quite a bit further in life now... yet how much further back I have often felt recently. Life is loaded with challenging choices designed to improve us... though, through the silly actions I often choose, it feels like improvement is simply not part of the plan for me. I know technically this is not the case... but the feeling still remains. Anyway, I was quite happy to read over my blessing tonight. It did actually fill me with some much appreciated, much needed, hope.