'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'
Songwriters: Laura Story
Blessings lyrics © Warner Chappell Music Inc
He learned of cancer, early in there life, together. When you live with death it becomes a part of you. It lives with you, there between the two of you. It shares your bed, it shares your dreams, it reminds you daily of why she is so dear. It is like leaving his hand in cold water, it soon numbs him to the pain. With time it becomes noise, the background noise to the music of their lives. So they lived with it for 20 plus years.
It then sneaks upon him when he least expects it. He is reminded that death is always near. He gets angry, and he curses God and he yells at the one who is most dear. How can she leave him here, with the children and his fear?
He knows he can never marry again. To share a life brings so much pain, love, and fear. He has worked so hard to build a life, with her, and the children. He fears to share this need and pain, so he buries himself in his work. He says he is working to pay the bills. This is true, partially. He really needs to mask the pain, from the loss and despair.
So, he lives with death
and mourns her loss,
and poetry then comes.
it comes as a gift, and the miracle too.
To restart their life together, once more.
"What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy"
Laura Story “Blessings”
