Music is powerful, it reaches to deep places, invokes deep emotion.  Songs reflect what our own voice would cry if it could.  But can a simple song change your life?  It can.  If that song settles in your soul and it is birthed into prayer, rising like a fragrant offering before the LORD, then it can…

I remember the moment my life was changed and I didn’t even know it until after it had come…  It was on an early morning in 2007.  As was my ritual I had the radio on as I got ready for the day. An unfamiliar tune was playing and I was casually listening until these words stuck deep chords “…so I pray bring me joy, bring me peace, bring the chance to be free, bring me anything that brings You glory, and I know there’ll be days when this life brings me pain but if that’s what it takes to praise You, Jesus bring the rain..”   I had never heard the song before, yet recognized it immediately and time stood still in a moment of deep worship and I sang out the words I had not known.  Even as the moment passed I knew that something was set in motion…    

I needed this song so I bought the cd (Mercy Me – Bring the Rain) and after listening to the whole song, it became my prayer.  Somehow I knew to pray this “whatever” prayer. (Often the most dangerous prayer voiced – “LORD, whatever it takes to_____”)  I believe God sees that as a complete submission and strikes while the iron is hot to bring about His work in a life.  Even as I would sing the song over and over, each time it came to the “pain and rain” parts, it sank deeper into my soul and my soul cried for it, begged for it. Like it could hear the distant roll of thunder and was calling it home…  

Unaware that the clouds had already been gathering overhead for most of the year, missing the obvious things of God, and instead cringing and calling it “life”, the first raindrops had already fallen.  And then on July 6, 2007, just two short weeks after the song was birthed into to prayer and rose before the throne of God, thunder shook us to the core, lighting struck home and the perfect storm was loosed… 

Husband’s fall and now living with a Traumatic Brain Injury

My sweet Momma died

Our beloved son died

Five family members in 2 short years passed into eternity…

the storm may rage on, but His Glory always shines through! And He carries us through if we let Him!

Only God could pour this prayer into my soul at just the right time, only He could know, and in His Grace prepared me as His Holy Spirit prayed through this song.

I must admit that there are times I fail to praise Him in the storm.  Then there are moments when others have asked how I could praise Him, with all that I’ve been through…  

This writing is dedicated in worship of the One Who Is and Is to Come.  The Perfect & Holy God whose Love never fails & Whose Grace is always enough.

LORD, thank you for the storm

It is my great hope that you too can praise Him in the midst of whatever storm you are facing. Knowing that He loves you and has not forsaken you. Take a minute and praise Him, even now.


“I will give thanks in the great assembly; among throngs of people I will praise You”  Is. 35:18