Blessings

For many of us this past month has been of time of good-byes and transitions. From the yearly good-byes to our graduates, and this year there were many, to the sudden and final good-byes of 2 dear friends.

There are times of transitions as friends deal with grief. And for others it means dealing with serious health issues. For us, it is also a time of re-evaluating many things: jobs, ministries, and relationships. As the thunder peals loudly outside and the clouds look ominous, it seems to fit with the heaviness I at times feel in my heart.

There is a new song that I heard recently which brought me to tears as I was driving. I know that God's ways are so beyond what I can comprehend, and this song is a touching reminder of just that.

Blessings
by Laura Story

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
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 through 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
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
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 through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know the pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home
It's not our home

Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise