We pray for blessings, we pray for peace

We pray for family, protection while we sleep

We pray for healing, for prosperity

We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering

And 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!

And all the while You hear each desperate plea

And long that we’d have faith to believe

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

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?

What if the trials of this life

The rain, the storms, the hardest nights

Are Your Mercies in Disguise?

-Laura Story, “Blessings” via azlyrics.com