Title time

So I started a post the other day to catch every one up on the week that messed up my good blogging habits...then the hubby told me it was time to start cleaning out the basement and when I came back to the computer the next day my half way done post was gone. *sigh* So I will have to catch everyone up a different day. I would be right now but I'm on my phone and the pictures are downstairs on the computer. I actually uploaded pictures of the girls first day of preschool last Tuesday and I'm STILL waiting for them to show up. ( we all survived by the way) Really irritates me! Sorry Mrs. E, I tried but my dumb smartphone didn't cooperate so alas those pics will have to be another day also! *sigh* Since I can't add pictures to my post from my phone (or at least I don't know how to) I decided I'd blog about something that didn't require pictures. Ever wonder where the inspiration of the title of my blog came from? No? Well too bad, today you get to learn. As most of you know I lost my Dad in May after a year long battle with prostate cancer. If you didn't know now you do. Someday I will blog that story also. Just not yet. I think I'm afraid if I blog it, that means it really happened. And in some way I think I'm still in denial. Which I'm okay with. My dad was a lifetime trucker and he's just on a long haul right now. Keep on truckin' Dad. Anyhow, the last year had been trying to say the least. Lots of anger, hate, tears, questions, emptiness, pain, longing, regret, and the list goes on. But along with ALL those bad feelings God has brought many blessings into my family's lives. God's grace is only one of those wonderful gifts I have received. And a gift I probably would have never searched for had my dad not been dying of cancer. Sad isn't it? I grew up believing in God and going to church but I can't say God has ever been a big part of my life. We humans are such mysterious creatures. God has laid out so many riches for us if only we trust and obey Him and yet we run the other way! And then complain about how poor our lives are. I plead guilty here. My intent today is not to preach to you. I just can't help myself from wanting to share a life changing experience. I myself have witnessed the power of prayer, answered prayers, and God's unconditional love! I no longer believe in "just coincidence"... that my friends is the hand of God! I just don't understand what people think living a Christian life is gonna hurt? What are they afraid of? I would much rather live like there is a God, die and find out that there isn't, then live like there ISN'T a God, die and find out that there IS. It only makes sense to me. I'm preaching again sorry, but this is my blog so I suppose I can preach all I want! :) Anyhow, Dads battle was rough and at times I didn't think I was gonna survive so I relied on prayer and music a lot! (and of course good ol' family and friends!) Although there are many songs that helped me thru, there is one particular that has become my lifesong...and the inspiration to my blog title. We get so caught up in the things that go wrong. The poor me life. We fail to see the wonderful blessings God has in store for us if we only weather the storm. "He will not protect you from what He can perfect you thru"....I 150% whole heartedly believe that! So many times people want to "accuse" God. "Why did God allow this" or "why did God do that " we forget to take into account that God gave us free will! It's not always Gods plan we are following! Sometimes it's our own and worse yet sometimes it's Satans! God had wonderful plans laid out for us and yet even when we think we know better and go down a different path then what God had for us, He makes the BEST out of what WE have done to ourselves. THAT folks is one His many BLESSINGS.....


Laura Story: Blessings  (YouTube link)

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 
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/laura+story/blessings_20910655.html ] 
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 

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

*update* I didn't even think about it until I posted this and was brought to my "posts" page. My catch up post I thought was gone is in my "drafts"!! Wuhoo thank you blogger!!!