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 is 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
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 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
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
It’s not our home
‘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
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the 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
“Blessings” by Laura Story
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Love, love, loooove this song. So much truth in it! Have a great Sunday.
love this one…hits close to home…
great song! love the words. so easy to move through life without a theology of suffering isn’t it? well, that is until suffering comes along. then we are shocked to death and think God doesn’t love us.
recently, the prayers for healing of a high school friend were answered…not in the way we all wanted, but he is now in heaven, perfectly healed of his cancer. God’s perspective is so different from ours isn’t it?
Martha~If you go read her story on her website the song makes even more sense. I cried when I read it…but that could also be the pregnancy hormones
And I agree, sometimes the way God answers our prayers aren’t the way we want, but are for reasons only He can see.
i read her story not long ago. if she didn’t have it before, she had to develop a theology of suffering for sure!…as did joni erickson tada (who expresses it so well!) sarah, i don’t think it is just the hormones that made you cry. it is a sad story…that has given depth to her songs for sure!