Blessings

Once again, my sister-in-law has to remind that I have not blogged in 2 years! So, it's time to update.  I was reading my last blog in August of 2010 and just thinking of all the answered prayers that have come since then! I was in a new season of life then because I had just been married; and now I've been married for 2 years but still God brings another new season of life...my 1st job as an Elementary P.E. Teacher in Carroll ISD, the increase in our Cattle Company in which both will possibly allow us to go into the new year of 2013 with our 1st house and not in debt like many young families begin with!  So exciting to see how faithfulness in God's perfect timing works!  How can you not see God's hand?! No, life is not perfect but I will continue to see the blessings of life.  It was even perfect how after I got the phone call from principal that they have chosen to go forward with me as their P.E. teacher, I was on my way to a Laura Story concert where I could relax in God's presence and praise Him while listening to Laura sing, "Blessings". I can only end today with these lyrics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQan9L3yXjc
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 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 achings 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