Mercies in Disguise

I had intended to write a post every day to catch you all up on our Disney trip but life took over a little, and I am still marinating in the joy before I reflect with words. I promise I'll get back to that soon enough. My little Danica is laying here beside me sleeping. She woke up at 5 am this morning throwing up and hasn't been able to even keep a sip of water down. I've been sitting here all day with her. After three episodes that ruined bedding I got her to control it a little more and throw up in the dreaded pink hospital basin.

My dear friends are hosting a fundraiser for Team Danica tonight beginning at 6:30 pm at the Barrel Room on Cleveland Avenue in North Canton. I have been looking forward to this for some time. I've written about these women before. They are each a gift, and I wouldn't have made it through this without God bringing them into my life when He did. I haven't washed my face or brushed my teeth or eaten. I look out at the beautiful day, and I feel no angst about God putting me here sitting vigil with my girl. Since our Florida trip I have had an overwhelming sense of God's goodness and faithfulness to Danica and our family. If you go back on this blog to a year ago. If you read through the old posts about our desperate search for help for Danica and the pain this child endured you cannot help but sing the gorgeous Laura Story song with me today. Praising God His ways are higher than ours. Praising Him that through healing our heart's eye we can see Him more clearly. Praising Him that no matter what tomorrow holds we have a greater ability to see the multitude of His mercies even when in disguise. Sing with me, won't you?

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 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