15/09/2013 Blessings

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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 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

Credits: http://www.lyricshall.com/lyrics/Laura+Story/Blessings/

Just stumbled upon this wonderful song while I was on the internet. Every words, every sentences just pierce through my heart every time I listen to it, especially in this moment, where I'm feeling vulnerable to all the setbacks and disappointments in people. Most of the time, we pray and yearn for God blessings. We only want good things, great things to happen to us. I think we all as humans fail to see and understand God's blessings through the small little things/trials/darkness. All these disappointments, setbacks are inevitable because God did not promise we will have a smooth sailing life... He promised that we will have trouble, but God will be with us through the trials and storms. Is it enough? I really like the chorus. Probably we would never know what's healing without getting hurt, without experiencing His love for us.