The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #47298   Message #705705
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
07-May-02 - 12:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: bad day, ran over neighbor's dog
Subject: RE: BS: bad day, ran over neighbor's dog
Thanks, Amos:

Maybe I'll p.m. you and tell you the whole story... very powerful and amazing, as well as traumatizing. A couple of weeks before the accident, I had "written" a song. I hadn't written down the words, don't have the musical sophistication to write down the melody and hadn't taped the song. As I sat in the State Police car (locked in the back) I kept repeating the chorus in my head, like a prayer. There goes that darned word again. The chorus got me through that night. By the next day, I had completely forgotten that I'd spoken the chorus in my head... even forgotten that I'd ever written the song. It wasn't until weeks later that I remembered that I'd spoken the chorus in my head while I sat in the Police car for close to an hour. It took a couple of weeks to bring the song back up out of my subconscious, a line at a time. The chorus to the song is:

"And in the darkness, give me the eyes of faith
In my sorrow, send down your healing grace
And on my journey, may my path be straight
May my heart find rest in Thee

Jerry