The Blacksmith

Dream of the Weeping Steel

Louise and Chris Kellet are our friends from the United Kingdom, whom Nenad and I met in 2021 at an international prophetic school we attended. If I had to describe Chris in just one sentence, I would say that he is the person with the widest range of dreams through which the Holy Spirit reveals things, among all the prophetic individuals I have ever met or had the honor to work with.

But when, a few years ago at the prophetic school, Chris read to us the dream about steel that he had written down, we all fell into astonished silence. The story and its message remained in my heart and helped me in difficult moments when I thought the trials would never end. It also reminded me of my father, who does not want to hear anything about spiritual matters, because of an interesting detail: he dedicated his graduation thesis at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering to the phenomenon of the “crying of steel.” A description of this phenomenon follows at the end of the text.

When the Lord speaks, He can use every human language, the language of heaven and earth, prophetic dreams as well as scientific measurements, for all of these are different languages of God.

For this reason, I am publishing the dream in full, with Chris’s permission and without any “embellishments”:

I watched a master blacksmith busy in his forge, and examples of his handiwork hung from every wall. Weapons, armour, tools – all were exquisitely crafted, and any one of them would be the pride of their owner.

Using a long pair of tongs, he took a white-hot length of steel from a furnace, placed it on an anvil, and began hammering it flat. He then folded it over and hammered it together – the steel cooled to yellow, then red as it was worked on. While this was happening, the steel looked around the forge at all the wonderful things it could

become but felt a little disappointed when the blacksmith instead placed it back in the furnace.

When the steel was once again white hot, the blacksmith retrieved it and continued his work. The steel dreamed about being a sword in the hand of a mighty warrior or a plough helping to feed the kingdom. The blacksmith then turned back to the furnace,, and as he did so the steel began to cry quietly to itself, feeling that it had somehow failed him. Noticing this, he gave it a warm, encouraging smile and

carefully returned it.

It, regained its composure and was again retrieved and worked on the anvil. After some more folding, the blacksmith picked it up to return it once more to the fire. Fearing this, the steel began to cry uncontrollably; it sobbed large tears that bubbled and steamed on its hot surface, the blacksmith spoke kindly to the steel, reassuring it that all was well and to be at peace. The steel once again

pulled itself together as it was heated in the furnace.

As each time before, the steel was retrieved, placed on the anvil, and hammered flat. It felt sure that this was it, this was the time, after all the blacksmith had said all was well, and though it had taken much longer than many of the other pieces who were already serving the army or working in the

fields, it would finally be its turn to be of use in the kingdom. But once again it was folded and sensing what was about to happen it shook and wailed loudly, “Sorry, sorry, sorry”, “I’ve failed you again, I’m so sorry I’m not good enough! Please don’t put me back. I know I should be useful by now. I’ll be better, please! I promise!”.

Moved by the agony of the steel, the blacksmith began to cry also. He trembled and wept so much that he could not see to continue working, his tears blobbed onto the steel, mixing with its own and washing it cool. He picked up the steel and cradled it close while it cried and begged for forgiveness in his hands. He tenderly explained through his tears that the steel wasn’t of any lesser quality than the others he’s worked on and that the return trips to the furnace were not due to any failure but instead because it had a great destiny. The steel was being repeatedly heated and folded to remove impurities, impurities that were of less consequence in many of the older items he had previously crafted, but in what he was making now, the steel had to be exceptionally pure. “You see” said the blacksmith with an encouraging chuckle, “You’re going to be a weapon … for the king himself, and

that demands the purest and most excellent steel that can be made.”

With renewed hope in his words, the steel was returned and heated once more.

Louise and Christopher Kellett,

Oxfordshire, UK

Interesting Note

Sometimes, in technical descriptions of metal fracture, an unusual term appears: “the crying of steel.”

Although this expression is metaphorical, it describes a real physical phenomenon. When steel is subjected to high mechanical stress, microscopic changes begin to occur in its internal crystal structure—movement of dislocations, the formation of microcracks, and the gradual release of elastic energy. These processes create mechanical vibrations that travel through the material as sound waves.

In materials science, this phenomenon is called acoustic emission. It refers to the release of sound signals from a material during deformation or just before fracture. The sounds can vary greatly: from barely audible creaking to longer, resonant tones that may resemble squealing or groaning. Because of this characteristic sound, the descriptive phrase arose in industrial environments that steel “sings” or “cries” as it approaches failure.

The phenomenon also has practical significance. Engineers use sensitive sensors to detect these acoustic signals, since even very early acoustic emissions can reveal the formation of cracks, material fatigue, or dangerous increases in stress within a structure. For this reason, listening to the “voice” of a material is not merely a curiosity, but an important method of safety monitoring in bridges, pressure vessels, aircraft structures, and other critical systems.

Thus, the expression “steel cries” is a vivid way of describing the moment when a material begins to emit sound vibrations due to internal stresses within its structure.