Blessings

I love this song by artist: Laura Story on her album "Blessings" which is also the name of the song. Listen to the words and let them pierce your heart and do a healing work. It is even more beautiful with the music and her voice.

"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

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 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 rains, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise"


I truly believe that God uses all things for His good and that sometimes there is no other way to penetrate our hearts than though trials and heartaches which open us up to God's true healing. I do think that many trials are Blessings from God in Disguise. Isn't it worth it? We are here for such a short time. Do you truly beleive that a thousand sleepless nights are worth knowing that God is real and near? I do. What a priceless gift He gives us. He is truly a perfect parent, a perfect God, a good God, no matter what!