Why has God forsaken me

Why has God forsaken me? William (Bill) Wallace* (1933-2024). Originally written by a Methodist minister, William (Bill) Wallace, in 1979 for a funeral resource pack prepared by the New Zealand Methodist Church, this hymn was published in Wallace’s first collection of hymns, Something to Sing About: Hymns and reflections in search of a Contemporary Spirituality (1981), where it was associated with a setting named SHIMPI, by the Japanese composer Taihei Sato (1936-), created when author and composer were attending a conference of the Asian Consultation on Liturgy and Music. The hymn has since been published in Sound the Bamboo (1990), VU, CH4, and a number of American hymnals and anthologies...