Bella Vita is back in action! Sorry for my extended absence from the blogging community - I'm sure it's been hard on you all haha.
I'll be sure to catch you up to pace on the happenings of my life and hopefully fall back into the writing routine, but tonight I come to you with a song on my heart. This is a song that I've posted a video of on this blog before, but it's one I regularly turn to and want to share with you once again.
Honestly, life for me right now is going fairly smoothly, so this post isn't really about me. But at the same time it is. It's about you, and me, and all of us. It's about seasons of brokenness, discouragement, and disappointment.. seasons we've all walked through before.
Tonight I attended a viewing for the father of one of my oldest friends. As I settled into an open spot on the couch in the waiting room, I looked over to my right, to another lifelong friend of mine who was uninhabitedly sporting her freshly shaved head, a reminder of the cancer she's fighting. I then looked back to my left, to my friend standing beside her father's casket, and I watched her soft strength fight back tears as she went through the blurred motions of receiving condolences. It was then that I was overwhelmed with the thought, "This is not how it's supposed to be."
Reminders of the frailty of life. Reminders of fear and uncertainty. Reminders of that deep aching of life. Reminders that this world is not our home. Praise God that this is not our home. Praise God that this is not all we get. Praise God that the brokenness we experience in this world will be restored. Praise God.
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Here's the song of my heart tonight..
'Blessings'-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 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
