{"id":2583,"date":"2018-03-12T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T21:30:21","slug":"song-001-3-4-2-3-3-2-2-2-4-2-3-2-5-7-6-3-2-3-2-3-2-7-2-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=2583","title":{"rendered":"Song 079 – Why I Try"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”]
\"\"<\/a><\/div><\/div>[nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” text=”Song 079 (Scriptural Text Psalm 31)” url=”https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/ot\/ps\/31?lang=eng”][vc_column_text]\n\nhttps:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song_079_800807_Why_I_Try.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n[\/vc_column_text][nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” url=”https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song_079_800807_Why_I_Try.m4a” text=”Download Audio File” margin_top=”10″][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” url=”https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song_079_800807_Why_I_Try.pdf” text=”Download Guitar Chords”][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”][vc_column_text]This song was used as the music for Psalm 31<\/a>. I picked a photo of Andrea and I on a hike to Calf Springs Falls to post to the left, because family is why I try. This song was written about 11 months after I left Mobil Oil and went to work at The Seismic Acoustics Lab (SAL) at the University of Houston. I was busy in those days. We had 4 little kids. I was the Young Men\u2019s President in the Maplewood Second Ward. Marti and I had written a musical, Swedish Roots<\/a>, which we had put on in Dallas, and which we put on about this same time in the Maplewood Second Ward. Later I would be called as the Elder\u2019s Quorum President, just as we were starting Landmark Graphics, and I was starting my extremely busy travel schedule. I did write \u201cNew Technologies in Exploration Geophysics\u201d about 2 years after writing this song. Still have not taken the time to pick up on the art work taught in 9th<\/sup> Grade, and it is 38 years after I wrote this song. Still trying to be richer, and I never seems to go very far or very fast. Lots of potential. I enjoy my work (see verse 6 of Song 001 \u2013 Open My Eyes Please<\/a>), I feel like ideas and thoughts are planted in my mind (see description of Song 001 –\u00a0 Open My Eyes Please<\/a>\u00a0, Song 047 – Spirit World<\/a>, and Song 085a-k – Merging Mind & Matter<\/a>) and I enjoy it more when I can help a child, or someone else.\u00a0 The songs reflects how much we had been blessed. My mind goes to the geodesic fort I built for the kids in the back yard of our Missouri City home. I\u2019ve always been a big picture, long-term project guy, and this is reflected in the desire to help \u201call of God\u2019s other children,\u201d and to bring everyone to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This song was obviously written before I started quoting my Grandpa Hafen, who said \u201cSteers try too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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