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

And 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

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

And 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

And what if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near

And what if trials of this life are Your blessings in disguise.

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win we know

The pain reminds this heart that 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

And what if trials of this life are Your blessings in disguise.

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.

Laura Story - "Blessings"

There Are Days....

Some days I feel like I deserve my middle name's meaning - "battle maiden." Today was not one of those days. Today I felt like the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz. You win some, you lose some.

The Real Reason We Should Use Horses for Transportation

is that I am tired of cars and car repairs. When is the last time you heard someone say that their horse needed new engine mounts or a transmission flush? I mean, it just doesn't happen. Sure, horses cost a lot to buy, and they cost a lot to feed, but lately cars are pretty costly in the 'feed' department too. Plus, horses contribute natural garden fertilizer as a bi-product of their feeding, and cars just pollute the environment. But by far, the most convincing reason to use horses for transportation is this: If you buy two horses, and have one of each sex you can breed them and produce new horses to take the place of the original horses when they get old and don't function well anymore. No matter how many cars you put in one garage, they will never, ever produce another car to take their place when they start to fall apart. Cars just get old, fall to pieces, leave you with tremendous bills and are worth very little in their old age. So if you try to sell them to buy a newer replacement, it's a very sad situation. There are seriously days when I would like to drive my car up to the edge of a cliff somewhere, put a brick on the pedal and hit the dirt so I can watch the car smash into bits on the rocks below. An explosion would be even more entertaining. But now that just sounds like a movie, and I digress. Adieu.