This was “my” song for half the summer.
It was written by Laura Story, whose husband was diagnosed with a brain tumor after they were married a few short years (he still has not fully recovered) and yet Laura Story sings of God’s “Blessings” on a deeper level than most of us typically consider. . .
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 plead
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!
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
With Thanksgiving approaching, as we recall what we are “thankful” for, consider that quite often the “trials of this life are His mercies in disguise,” and often our “greatest disappointments and the aching of this life is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy.” And in His grace and love, He gives us the greatest gift–the greatest blessing of all–in Himself.