Blessings through raindrops, healing through tears

A friend of mine recently shared this link (http://youtu.be/1CSVqHcdhXQ) on FaceBook and it really hit home to me.  A couple months ago this song ("Blessings" by Laura Story) was sung at my church by the daughter of the youth pastor I mentioned in an earlier blog.  Needless to say it had many of us near tears as she sang this song as an a cappella solo during the service.  Plus with everything I've had going on it really reminded me that things aren't always what they seem and that we often have to experience the rain to get the rainbow.

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.