Blessings in disguise...

Life has been EXTREMELY overwhelming for myself and my husband here lately. The adjustment to our lives with me in school full-time has been a tough one for everyone. Job changes, birthdays, new school schedules, family sickness, etc. have had me at MAXED OUT for the last month.  My shoulders are heavy and some days my heart is too, but I continue to press on knowing that this is GOD's Will for my life right now. Even if it means sacrificing the family time that I have always had plenty of time for...The song below speaks to my heart in great ways and is so appropriate. Through the good, the bad, and the ugly God's mercies are neverending and I am SO unworthy. Thank you, Lord for loving me even on my "ugly" days, and for giving me strength daily.

Blessings

By: Laura Story

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(s) 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