Mercies in Disguise

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 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
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
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
As long as we have faith to believe

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That 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
What if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are your mercies in disguise

--Blessings, Laura Story

A beautiful beautiful song shared in church today, with a story behind. About a lady whose husband was diagnosed with a brain tumor, still there despite many years of prayers for healing, wondering why God allows his followers to suffer.

And it comes in conjunction with my rereading of Mere Christianity, suddenly the clarity of CS Lewis' writing is coming through...perhaps I've barely graduated from my previous perusals of the Narnia series to his other works that are harder to understand but with truths laid bare.