Blessings

I was driving last week and heard this song on the radio for the first time and was blurry eyed from tears by the end of it. It spoke right to the depths of my soul as I have spent many sleepless nights filled with tears of healing and have needed those trials in order to see the true mercies of my life. 

For me it has mostly revolved around motherhood, my struggle with infertility, and my struggle with my lack of control over my life.  

The song took my breath away as I was feeling overwhelmed with the task of parenting the three boys I have that are full of energy and thinking about another little one joining us before we know it!

It is far too easy to forget how precious life is. 

I found the song on YouTube and a video someone made to it.

The lyrics of the song "Blessings" by Laura Story are below the video. 

(Before you play it, scroll to the bottom of the blog and pause the music)

I pray you will be reminded of the mercies in your life that may have been a result of your own sleepless nights or tears of healing. 

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 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