The story of a sticky song…
Dan Harper
October 05, 2025
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Lamentations 3: 19-26 (NIV)
19 I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall.
20 I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast within me.
21 Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope:22 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
23 They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
24 I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him.”25 The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;
26 it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
In the late 1960s Velvet Underground recorded 14 tracks that would go unreleased and forgotten about for the next nearly 20 years, eventually being released as the album VU. One of these was an odd little song that burrows deep into your ears and stays there, as forgotten as the original recording, until it stumbles back to your attention. When you start to hear the murmuring of the lyrics…
“I’m sticking with you, cause I’m made out of glue…”
The song is either brilliant or terrible, but once heard it will stick with you forever.
In our reading from Lamentations, we hear of the protagonist having a broadly terrible life, if a bad thing could happen and be complained about, it would do and will be. However, our reading isn’t just about bad things and complaining, it adds to that story. Our reading reminds us that whatever the sticky situation, God sticks with us.
Just as that Velvet Underground track gets stuck inside your head, God can get stuck in your heart. Always with you, stuck fast, and holding on with love.
Prayer:
Dear God, remind us that whatever our story, you stick with us through all the bad and the good. Amen
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