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 the pain reminds this heart
That this world is not our home.

And 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.

By Laura Story

photographs by me and a few by my family