Blessings

Below are the lyrics to this beautiful song that my sister played for me tonight.  I thought it was so great and wanted to share:

Blessings: By Laura Story   (click to see video)

We pray for blessings, we pray for peace

Comfort for family, protection while we sleep

We pray for healing, for prosperity 

We pray for your mighty hand to ease our suffering

And all the while, You hear each spoken need

Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things 

Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if your healing comes from tears

What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near

What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise? 

We pray for wisdom, Your voice to hear

And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near

And we doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love

As if each promise from Your word is not enough

And all the while, You hear each desperate plea 

And long that we'd have faith to believe 

Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if your healing comes from tears

What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near

What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?

When friends betray us, when darkness seems to win, we know

That pain reminds this heart that this is not our home

What if my great disappointments, or aching of this life 

Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy? 

What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights 

Are your mercies in disguise?  

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This song is such a reminder to me of how God can use the bad in our lives, the pain and the brokenness and create something beautiful.  He can use the mess to bring us back to Him.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 

He has made everything beautiful in its time.  He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.