Mercies in Disguise

Lately I have really been struggling with a lot . . . .   Some things have been small, personal frustrations like all the delays in our homestudy that have been no fault of ours, and some things have been big, worldly issues - like the flooding, tornados, and wartime death I seem to hear about each and every day.  I don't understand so many things that happen each day and I especially don't see God's plan in all this pain and suffering.  Then this afternoon while I was driving home from work I heard this song and it really put things in perspective.  I started bawling (yes, there was snot) in the car all by myself.

Here is the video, from YouTube (there are a couple versions):



And here are the words - so powerful and so true:

We pray for blessings, we pray for peace.
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep.
We pray for healing, prosperity.
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering.

All the while, You hear each spoken need.
Your love is too 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 night, 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.

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?

What if trials of this night, 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?
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 a revealing of greater thirst that a world can't satisfy?

And what if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights;
Are Your mercies in disguise?