Gratitude

This is like one of my favorite songs as of right now and I thought it would be very appropriate to put the lyrics in here because of recent events it hits home.

Gratitude
Nicole Nordeman

Send some rain would you send some rain
Because the earth is dry and needs to drink again
And the sun is high and we are sinking in the shade.
Would you send a cloud thunder long and loud
Let the sky grow black and send some mercy down
Surely you can see that we are thirsty and afraid.

Or maybe not, not today, maybe You'll provide another way
And if that's the case
We'll give thanks to You with gratitude
For lessons learned in how to thirst for You
How to bless the very sun that warms our face
If You never send us rain.

Daily bread, give us daily bread
Bless our bodies keep our children fed
Fill our cups and fill them up again tonight
Wrap us up and warm us through
Tucked away beneath our sturdy roofs
Let us slumber safe from danger's view this time

Or maybe not, not today
Maybe You'll provide another way and if that's the case
We'll give thanks to You with gratitude
At lesson learned to hunger after You
That a starry sky offers a better view if no roof is overhead
And if we never taste our bread

Oh the differences that often are between
Everything we want and what we really need.

So grant us peace, Jesus grant us peace
Move our hearts to hear a single beat
Between alibis and enemies tonight

Or maybe not, not today
Peace might be another world away and if that's that case
We'll give thanks to you with gratitude
For lessons learned in how to trust in You

That we are blessed beyond what we could ever dream
In abundance or in need, if you never grant us peace.
But Jesus would You please