Blessings

The following is a song titled “Blessings” written by Laura Story. This is a wonderful song which may be a kind reminder for all of us on how God’s blessing truly comes in various phases of our life both in happiness and challenging times. May this be a blessing to each one of us.

Following is her sharing referenced from TodaysChristianMusic:

Blessings has been a synopsis of everything God’s been teaching me, the things He’s been doing in my life and my heart in the past five years..

My husband was diagnosed with a brain tumor four to five years ago.. He’s gone through an enormous amount of healing, but at the same time there are some things that haven’t fully healed like vision and memory. We’re learning what life looks like with disabilities..

At first you just look and say, ‘Why? Why didn’t you just fix it, God? You’re all powerful and all loving… just fix it..
I’ve spent so much time shaking my fist at God, but I feel like He keeps grabbing that hand that I’m shaking at Him and peeling back my fingers and saying, ‘Laura, you need to release it into my hands. I’ve been faithful to you. And now just because you don’t understand what I’m doing, you’re starting to doubt me?’

We still have so many more questions than answers.. God, how is this all going to end?
We don’t know, but we trust that the things He allows into our lives are filtered through his loving hands. We hold onto the promise of scripture, ‘When you walk through the valley, I will be with you.’ We’ve gotten to experience Him in a deep and more intimate way.

Let’s gently apprehend the meaning of this song lyric:

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
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

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 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 achings 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?