The Most Amazing Song

Blessings

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 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 that 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

This has got to be one of the most amazing songs I have ever heard.  I first heard it months ago, when we were planning one of the Quest retreats, my friend brought it to the table.... Hopefully we can use it this coming year. 

There have been so.many.times. I have gotten mad at God, thinking He delights in our suffering, otherwise why would He let so much pain & so many bad things happen to His beloved children?!  BUT- because there's always a but - I remember, and this song reminds us, that we're not put here to be an end-all, we're not put here so we always feel good, we're here to bring God's goodness to others, and to find comfort & goodness in Him.  Sometimes the only way God can touch us when we need him most is by showering us with rain.  Sometimes we need to have those sleepless nights so we can listen to the silence of our hearts & hear His gentle words answering us. 

(BTW- if the video link doesn't work, please google it yourself, listen to the song!  I will check it when I get home, and fix the hyperlink)