"God Sent You" (B. Springsteen): A Meditation
“Lost on the road.” Have you been there? That’s a rhetorical question. Of course, who hasn’t felt lost on the road, lost along the journey, lost and nowhere to go? Somewhere between the mountains reaching high, where a soul is closer to God, and the sea sinking low, where a soul is far from God, somewhere in the valleys of life feeling lost, a soul prays in the morning. “I prayed for you this morning.” There’s a couple ways to interpret this, right? I can pray for you in general like I do every day, pray for your well-being. Here, I’m praying for your sake. But another way to pray for someone is to pray for someone to come to you. Here, prayer is a sort of beckoning. I need you to be here and so I pray that God sends you to me to help. This prayer for help is for my sake, for you to help me. It’s not clear which way the narrator prays for this someone. Maybe it’s a little of both. He prays for the person that he or she will be well. And at the same time, in pra...