Bring My God Down (w/Monologue Six)

[from the pop musical, Song of Plenty, 1974]

Monologue Six:

GIRL (continuing letter). . .

It was all so clear. . .so simple. And yet I had this feeling of pride nagging away at me. It said, “Don’t give in. Keep searching. You’ll be okay. You’ll find what you’re after on your own.”

The the invitation hymn was sung. It was unlike any I had ever heard before. This one was meant for me.

Song:

Bring my God down,
Bring my God down
From your dark and unknown skies.

Make Him the sun,
Make Him the sun
In the solar system of your lives.

Bathe in His light,
Bathe in His light;
Warm to perfect love and peace.

Be His reflection,
Be His reflection;
Let all men known whose light you are.

About this Song:
One spring during the early sixties, I worked in the kitchen at the original Phillips Crabhouse in Ocean City, Maryland.

My job? Boring the stalks out of cabbage heads and quartering the heads in preparation for making tons of cole slaw. Ironically, I hate cabbage in any form.

But this one particular day, the idea of “Bring My God Down” came to me–even the melody–in the midst of my cabbage cutting, and it turned out pretty well, I think.

I always smile at the line in the monologue about this song being an invitation hymn unlike any the girl has ever heard before. Even though she explains that the difference is she listened to this one, the style of this song is so unlike the average invitation hymn that her statement has a double meaning.

Please leave a comment if this song–or this blog post–has spoken to you.

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Best regards,
Roger

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About Roger E. Bruner

Seventy-four-year-old Roger E. Bruner is the author and publisher of eighteen Christian novels and the writer of more than two hundred Christian songs and choruses, a handful of musical dramas, and a number of shorter works. He sings, plays guitar and bass, and records his original songs in his home studio. He will be active in his church's nursing home ministry again when circumstances permit and in the church choir when it starts up again. In the meantime he'll keep playing bass on the praise team. Married for seventeen years to Kathleen, he has one grown daughter. Kathleen has two. Roger enjoys reading, moderate exercise, photography and book cover design (he's done all of his own except for Rosa No-Name), playing Snood, making walking sticks, and complaining about the state of the nation while continuing to pray for it.

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