Blessings by Laura Story

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/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

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 the 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

One Thousand Gifts

Ann VosKamp over at A Holy Experience and author of One Thousand Gifts was challenged by a friend to write down one thousand gifts. One thousand blessings that have been bestowed upon her. So I take on the dare to live fully and begin counting my blessings.

• a sweet baby sleeping


• a little girl dancing to the music in her head


• the smell of spring in the air


• a cool breeze


• soothing music


• friends who know me and love me anyway


• #1-6

Waiting

Waiting on spring, for the trees to being to bud with new life. Waiting for warm weather. Waiting for the smell of new life. Waiting for the beautiful colors. Come on spring, where are you? Can't you come a little early this year? It's been a long hard winter. I'm ready. I need spring!

Tired

I'm tired. Physically, mentally, emtionaly tired. Tired of lifes unrelenting forces. Tired of the way my brain works, the way my emotions seem to take over and then tired of being numb. Tired of feeling never quite good enough, or strong enough, or happy enough. Tired of being insecure. Tired of not having a voice. Tired of not being heard. Tired of life.

The Lord is close to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18


"He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust." Psalm 126:5

Hello and Welcome

I have a blog where I chronicle our homeschool journey but I thought it would be nice to have a blog of my very own. One where I can share what's going on in my life as a mother, wife, women, and dreamer. A journal of my life. The good, the bad, the ugly, and maybe sometimes the pretty.