Blessings

Happy Thanksgiving, friends! What a special day. While it’s not always our nature to remember to be overwhelmingly thankful and full of gratitude every day of the year, this is a day where we can pause and be intentionally thankful for things big and small.

This has been a very special year for us. When I pause to think of all the things I am grateful for, a lot of wonderful things come to mind. This year, our precious Hayes stands out to me. I’m also so thankful of the little boy Hudson is becoming and I’m so thankful to have the privilege of being his mother. And I’m mostly grateful for my supportive, loving, kind, thoughtful husband who impresses me, makes me laugh and makes me feel completely loved every single day.

I’m thankful for loving, generous parents and parents in-law who support us with their wisdom and provide an excellent example of marriage for us.

I also know that there have been things that have happened this year and throughout my life that don’t bring wonderful memories to mind. And I know that there are many of you who may be struggling today with loss, sickness, death, unemployment, hurt, anger, etc.

This is one of my favorite songs. It’s called “Blessings” by Laura Story. It is a beautiful reminder to be thankful through the storms and trials just as we are thankful for the obvious blessings.

I hope where ever you are today, you are with people you love and you are feasting and celebrating the blessings in your life.

Today, I’m thanking God for the opportunity to just pass through and get to experience this beautiful world he created with the people I love.

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 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 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