Perfectly Made Party of 2

Hi friends – as I mentioned in the Card Catalog of Life page, I will occasionally write about a song that I have leaned on in any season of my life.  In this post, the song is Blessings, by Laura Story.  Laura released this song February 21, 2011, a day early on in our struggles to conceive.

When I heard this song for the first time, I was sitting at my desk at work.  We had no one in the office, and actually, I was the only one in the office, so I was able to listen to whatever I wanted.  As soon as the song came on, I knew it was new to me.  I was doing computer work, and was only half listening, but when the first round of the chorus started, I was stopped in my tracks.  It was the part of the chorus that says,

“Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops? What if Your healing comes through tears?”

At that point, I was trying to register what was said. I stopped my computer work and focused on listening to the song.  It didn’t take long at all for the tears to well up in the corners of my eyes.  The next thing I knew, I’m full-on weeping. I’m weeping because I don’t know this artist at all, and here she is taking the words that I am up to my eyeballs deep in, straight from my soul, my heart, and my mind.  Who is this woman, how does she know how I’m feeling, and why is she singing a song that is 1000% me in this season of my life.

No really, how did she know? The answer: God.  God is always the answer, fyi.

This woman, Laura Story, was using her gift, and her God given talents, to minister to me, and to so many others.  She was being obedient to her calling and using a situation that she had gone through, to not only glorify God, but to help others. 

Laura wrote this song after her husband was diagnosed with a brain tumor while they were still newlyweds.  In this YouTube video, Laura describes in her own words some of the meaning behind this song.

Now knowing this, you know that her circumstance wasn’t my circumstance. Infertility is different than a brain tumor.  Yes, and anxiety is different than an eating disorder.  And the loss of a job is different than the loss of a loved one.  A failed friendship is different than not getting a job promotion that you deserved.  Not making the team is different than getting a divorce.  All of these things and everything in between, are different, but the struggle, the tears, the doubt, the pain, the sadness, the disappointment, the blame, the sleepless nights, the fears; they are all the same.  No matter the circumstance, the feelings and emotions are all the same.

In times like these we need connection more than ever.  And this song did that for me.  I connected to a person I didn’t know, because of a song she wrote.  God knew that I would need this song to make me feel like I wasn’t alone.  God knew that Jim and I would need this song as a reminder that blessings do come from raindrops, and tears really do bring healing.  And we both would need this song to be reminded that God’s plan is and always will be greater than ours.  But God also knew that you would need this song too.  You would need to hear it in just the right moment that it’s ok to feel doubt, and anger.  But when you have faith, and cry out in plea, He WILL hear you, He does hear you.  Your prayers, your cries, your screams, do not fall on deaf ears.  God is a God of love, and no matter what you are going through, he is not going to ever leave or forsake you.  I know this.  I know this because of where I’ve been and what I’m currently going through. 

I had a friend, just today, remind me as she was praying for me, that God doesn’t lead us to the valley, but he leads us THROUGH the valley, a reference to the Psalms 23. 

Friends, I don’t know what you are going through right now, if anything at all, but if you are going through something, no matter how big or small, it’s not too big or too small for God.  Your circumstance may be different, but just know that I have felt all of the emotions you have and am feeling them in this season of my life right now.  It’s just a season, we must remember that.  It’s easier said than done, but trust Him through these trials, because as the artist writes,

“And what if trials of this life

The rain, the storms, the hardest nights

Are Your mercies in disguise?”

I am praying for you, my reader, you will get through this.

If you want to listen to the song, you can use the link below.  The lyrics are typed out below, as well.

I do not own this song, no copyright infringement intended. I give all credit to the original artist and no monetary exchanges or affiliates are linked to this post.

BLESSINGS

By Laura Story

Lyrics

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
And all the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love is 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?
And 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

‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops?
What if Your healing comes through tears?
And what if the 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
And 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 the 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?

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Laura Story

Blessings lyrics © Capitol CMG Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc

References

Story, Laura. “Blessings.” Laura Story – Blessings Lyrics | Lyrics.Com, 2011, www.lyrics.com/lyric/23104378/Laura+Story.

Story, Laura. “Laura Story-Blessings (Pseudo Video).” YouTube, 29 Oct. 2013, youtu.be/JKPeoPiK9XE?si=qvYDKD-0qbesrYXW.

Story, Laura. “Laura Story-”Blessings”  Story Behind the Song.” YouTube, 15 Feb. 2011, youtu.be/gjB2skJi2co?si=JBqCzpTqlwN4wK03.