Prayer

From Rodney Crowell’s Till I Can Gain Control Again:

“Out on the road that lies before me now

There are some turns where I will spin

I only wish that you could hold me now

Till I can gain control again”

I guess I have been listening to that song for more than forty years, since Emmy  Lou Harris released it in 1975 (Crowell was in her band).  It never occurred to me until being reacquainted with it recently that it is a prayer – a pretty good prayer.  Of course, it raises the issue of whether I ever had control such that “I can gain control again.”