Blessing...this world is not our home!

Yesterday, Uncle Stevie passed from this life to his GREAT reward! He has a new body, his suffering is gone, he gets to be with JESUS! The questions seem to resurface...why do some people have to bear so much in this life? It is a fallen world and it makes us "homesick" for heaven, but also we are so reminded how our great God can be working beauty in this brokeness!

I've thought often of this song in the last few weeks & was reminded again of it...

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

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 heartThat this is not, this is not our home

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?

Blessing...by Laura Story