It's Me Again, Lord

It's me again, Lord is inspirational fiction.
Joel Reed, a Nashville singer/songwriter has a hit album on his hands. The title song: It's me again, Lord went instantly to the top of the Christian Country charts. But there's a problem. That song, and five others on the album, were written and arranged by a disabled former school teacher/coach living 350 miles away in the tiny burg of Brighton, Illinois.
That first song was written many years ago on Sonny's back porch:
It started with a call from a nurse about six months after Sonny's cancer surgery: A man that had exactly the same surgery as Sonny was back in the hospital and doing poorly. Sonny was always so confident and upbeat; could he possibly come by and cheer Wilfred up?
The first thing Sonny did was pray. Then he went to the music store down on the old town Jackson square and bought some guitar strings and a pitch pipe…
Wilfred Dorchester was maybe 15 years older than Sonny. He had been unknowingly aspirating, causing him to return to the hospital with pneumonia. With all the tubes and wires hanging from him, Wilfred looked like he was down for the count. His pretty wife Lillian was doing her best to stay upbeat, but Jenny could tell she'd about reached her limit.
"Howya doin' there, guy?" Sonny said, barging into the hospital room. "I'd like you to meet the prettiest redhead in East Tennessee, come all this way just to cheer you up!"
Jenny blushed. Lillian stared in disbelief. Wilfred managed a faint smile and held out his hand to Jenny. She rushed forward to carefully take his right hand in both of hers. Sonny slipped back out the door then reappeared carrying his guitar.
"But that ain't all we got for you, Partner." Sonny pulled a straight-back chair up close to Wilfred's bedside. "A nurse named Sandy called and said you were feeling a little puny, so I wrote you a song. Wanna hear it?"
Lillian got up from her chair and peered at Sonny from the other side of Wilfred's bed. Wilfred's smile got a little bigger.
It's me again, Lord. I'm prayin' for a friend.
We need your help, Lord. We need Your guiding hand.
Things have changed for Sonny since then. His health problems, some of them self-inflicted, have brought heartbreaking changes to his life. Nonetheless, his son Jake and his wife Jenny – his dazzling-redhead elementary schoolteacher wife Jenny – are determined to help Sonny "get his music back".
"How could you let this happen, Dad?" Jake asks.
"Please don't burden your father with this," Jenny says. "You know you'll only upset him."
"I'm not upset," Sonny says. "I got music on the radio. Mmm… my music!" Lowering his head, he begins to hum the tune to It's Me Again, Lord softly. Zoning out into his mellow world of pain management and anesthetics, he smiles contentedly, tapping a rhythm with the fingers of his right hand on his knee.