Blessings in Disguise

We pray for blessings

We pray for peace

Comfort for family, protection while we sleep,

We pray for health, 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.

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 the 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 are near

And what if the 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

This is not our home

It's not our Home!

"Cause what if your blessing comes through raindrops

What if your healing comes through tears

What if a thousand sleepless nights

Are what it takes to know You are near?

What if my greatest disappointments

Or the aching of this life

Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world cannot satisfy

And what if the trials of this life,

The rain, the storms, the hardest nights

Are you mercies in disguise?

(Laura Story)