(Author’s Note: I am on a 2 week vacation to purge some frustration and restore my spirit. In the meantime, I dusted off and breathed a little bit of new life into some older posts.)
Hidden in every death is at least one blessing. If you keep an open mind, you will eventually see the blessing.
Read on and you will see the blessing I found in Joe’s death.
Our Last Night Together
Joe was rehabbing after back surgery and doing well. He called me at work on Thursday and asked that I go buy a DVD player for him and his roommate. After I got to the hospital, he had me wheel him around the rehab department looking for the best TV and TV cart. He was his old techie self, trying to make things work and definitely on his “A” game.
Once we got everything set up, he told me to leave as it was a rainy March night with the temperature hovering around 32 degrees. He was concerned about me getting home before the roads froze. So I left. I called him upon my safe arrival home.
That was our last conversation.
The next day he was gone.
The Blessing I Discovered
It took me months before I figured out a blessing relating to Joe’s passing.
Then one day I “saw the light” thanks to the proverbial “light bulb” turning on over my head.
My last memory of Joe could have been of him in extreme pain. Instead, God healed Joe of his pain and left me and his family with a few days where Joe was extremely happy, upbeat and healthy.
Thank you God for that blessing.
“Blessings”/Laura Story (video 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 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 disguiseWe pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
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 believeWhen friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not our homeWhat 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
JoyReturns 