Laura's 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 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


And what if trials of this life


The rain, the storms, the hardest nights


Are Your mercies in disguise

Blessings by Laura Story

Laura has not penned these words in a vacuum. She has walked through five years of recovery as a newlywed with a husband who had a brain tumor removed.

This song captures so much of the struggle of my life. I constantly want from God my laundry list-an easy life, great friends, no pain, no hurt, and on it goes. All the while, He is patiently and graciously giving me what I really need so that I will know Him and the power of His resurrection. My view of suffering is the opposite of His. Suffering is bringing me ever closer to Him.