Music Monday 3/12/12

This song came on the radio yesterday on my way home from work. Every single time I hear it, I think "What if this song is true?" What if all of the suffering I've endured over the last almost 21 months is actually a mercy in disguise? Or what if it's meant to bring me healing? What if it's meant to bring me closer to God? I know for a fact that I'm not letting it be any of those things. Brokenness can be a really good thing, but if we make no allowance for healing or repair, then what is the point? I know I am in a severe valley of doubt right now. I'm struggling with everything I believe in, but not because God has left me to rot in my own misery, but because I'm lacking faith when I'm making each desperate plea. Part of it is because I'm afraid of not getting the results I desire. Part of me thinks that just because I believe it CAN happen doesn't mean that it WILL happen. I'm tired of being disappointed. I'm tired of feeling let down. I'm thirsty, and I'm ready to drink from the eternal fountain.


Title: Blessings
Artist: Laura Story
Album: Blessings

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'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 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


Lyrics

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