Blessings

I'm posting this afternoon about a song that I heard months ago when I was on a blog that I read. The song was one that spoke to me immediately and I wanted to share it here. This morning Wes and I decided to go the the earlier service at church. God not only spoke to me through the sermon about trusting in Him, including this gem of a scripture from Jeremiah 29:11:

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future," but this special song was sang (beautifully) as well.  I hope you enjoy it as much as Wes and I have.

It's really easy (for me anyway) to want to trust in God when life seems peachy. When everything is going just right and no real worries are laid in my path. Losing Christian changed that for me. I don't like to admit that it made me question God. It made me ask if His plans are the best plans for me, no matter what, every time. As much as it hurts to be missing Christian every day, I know that God ultimately wants what is best for me. It's not easy, and most days I don't like it. It's impossible for me to see losing Christian as a "blessing" as this song says, but I pray that I will see it one day as part of a bigger picture for our lives. I have to trust and remind myself (often daily, sometimes hourly!) that He knows what He is doing for me, for Wes, and our family.

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 is 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?

And 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?