blessings.

If I could change one thing about myself, it would be my ability to sing. If you have gotten to experience one of my birthday songs on your voice mail, then you know I absolutely cannot sing. And I love to sing. I feel like there are so many songs out there that say exactly what I want to say but can't figure out how to put in words (and you know I can pretty much put anything into words). When I think about experiences in my life, some of which I've written bits and pieces of throughout Merdeezy Hollaaas, I think about that song by Garth Brooks, "Unanswered Prayers." And how right on the mark it is. Sometimes God's greatest gifts really are all those unanswered prayers of ours. And then there is this new song I just discovered - Blessings by Laura Story.

No explanation needed. Just let the lyrics wash over you.
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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
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 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?