It’s funny how certain songs hit home at different times in our lives.  As I grieve the loss of a friend, try to dig myself out of work neck-high, try to balance all the different facets of my life, try to do the best thing for a friend, and figure out post-college life, this song hits me and reminds me that God knows what He’s doing, He has a plan.  It’s probably not the plan that I have, in fact, it rarely is.  But, all the while, He hears, and asks us to simply have faith.  There are times (at least there have been in my life) when His blessings really do come through raindrops, and when tears really do bring healing.  That doesn’t mean that it’s easy to withstand the trials that are placed in our lives for reasons unknown.  It doesn’t mean that it’s easy to watch friends suffer, or to figure out the best way to help a friend.  It doesn’t mean that life is easy.

As difficult as it is to see a friend pass away, it is good to know that she is in a better place, and that she is no longer suffering.  As hard as it is to try to dig myself out of this workload, I realize that I can’t do it alone.  As I try to balance everything, I realize that God has a plan for the busyness and the craziness and the sheer pandemonium that seems to be my life sometimes.  As I try to do the best thing for a friend, I know that it’s not what I think is best, but what He has planned that I need to hear and act upon.  As I look to figure out what comes next, I know God will direct my steps.  I know He’s got a plan; I just can’t see it yet.  And sometimes, His blessings do come through raindrops and His healing through tears.  Sometimes these trials are His mercies in disguise.

Blessings, 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