My Story Mystery (w/Monologue Four)

From the 1974 Christian musical Song of Plenty…

Monologue Four:
GIRL (continuing letter). . .

I was almost in tears as one person after another told me about themselves. Can you believe it? Their lives were all so similar to mine. The running away. The searching. The trying. The crying.

But their stories all had happy endings!

Song:|
[You may listen to a recording of this song from the original presentation of the musical here or listen to the entire performance here.]

I was born the bitter child
Of a latter-day Adam and Eve,
Who lived destroyin’ God’s Garden
Till He sadly had to make ’em leave.

With a snake-filled apple in my mouth,
I was misconceived:
I grew up thinking I was all there was;
I was deceived.

Then I found I was nothing,
And my empty spirit grieved
And began a long search
For something bigger to believe.

Then God’s Spirit found mine
And gave me new breath to breathe;
He gave me warmth I needed badly;
My tiredness He relieved.

He filled me with His Presence,
My life’s pattern to reweave.
He gave me new direction.
All I’d lost has been retrieved.

His gift of love, His gift of peace:
These blessings I have received.
I don’t know why He loves me so;
That He does I do believe.

About this Song:
Roger-2021
This is one of the strangest songs I’ve ever written–the first few stanzas, anyhow– although it fits right in with the story. And it looks like I must have been going crazy making rhymes, but in a strangely fun way.

I must admit I get a kick out of the reference to the “latter-day Adam and Eve” because that describes every set of human parents. The part about being “misconceived” simply means that all of us human beings are born under the burden of original sin.

I think the progression from very negative searcher to someone God finds and rescues is clear and encouraging. We may look for God, but He’s the one who ultimately finds and accepts us–and changes us if we allow Him to. I like the variety of “benefits” the singer has received from becoming a Child of God.

I write Christian novels as well as songs. The two most recent ones are shown below and their pictures are links to the Amazon pages. The eighteen-book picture is a link to my Amazon Author Page.

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Best regards,
Roger

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About Roger E. Bruner

Seventy-five-year-old Roger E. Bruner is the author and publisher of twenty 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 is active in his church's nursing home ministry He also plays bass guitar on the church raise 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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