O GOD OF SORROW AND STEEL

OCTOBER PRAYER

O God of Sorrow and Steel,

My God, God of Jesus

and God of my North Dakota Childhood,

You know me like you know my music,

I am never in doubt. You know,

God  of the Blues Sung Slow,

My God, God of Salvation in the Blues,

my tendencies in the music store

run steel deep into sorrow,

You know how I found You

early and stayed, a person

my age, ambitious in foolishness,

always auditioning, before You

again and again in the Notebook

and in the Mail, You are,

You, God of Commemorative Stamps,

God of my country's sorrow,

God of Sorrow and Steel,

You contain my tears, with me in my weeping,

You do not, I do not hear You, You, God,

No voice of yours stops in my morning prayers

Jim Bodeen

2 October 2019