Monday, February 17, 2014

Mixed Blessing(s)

Laura Story has a beautiful and haunting song with the title of Blessings. I am working towards forgiveness and being thankful and Blessings expresses many of my feelings well.

I pray for blessings
I pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
I pray for healing, for prosperity
I pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love me 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

I pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And I cry in anger when I cannot feel You near
I doubt Your goodness, I doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that I'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 me
When darkness seems to win
I 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