[7] Laura Story married her partner Martin; two years later he was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Story learned that despite his life-threatening illness, they saw how God never intended for people to provide for themselves and that instead of walking alone they would need to rely on Jesus's help.

[8] Blessings was written to describe how God will allow things that are not immediately understood to happen, but from a different perspective they are a means of spiritual growth.

The song is also about how sometimes material possessions are not what God wants for believers, and it lends the idea about how character, along with what is in someone's heart, is ultimately more important.

She explained that Blessings is about finding the answer in "the absence of the thing [...] praying for.