“Me and 2012 are gonna fight” was my Facebook status in early January. So, I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that the first quarter of 2012 has been a rough one. Even my friends find themselves in the midst of some struggles and irritations.
I hate to wish the year away, but I find myself doing it almost on a daily basis. Case in point: I thought it would be fun to have an Adios 1st Quarter 2012 party.
My friends did too.
But regardless of how much I want to fight with 2012, the fact of the matter is that God has blessings in store for me through the fits and frustrations. And that fact is what brings me to our Music Monday for today.
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
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 trails 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 the trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise?