{"id":2922,"date":"2018-03-21T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2018-03-28T16:59:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T22:59:06","slug":"song-001-3-4-2-3-3-2-2-2-4-2-3-2-5-7-6-3-2-3-2-3-2-7-2-13-14-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=2922","title":{"rendered":"Song 087 – The First Prayer"},"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 087 (Scriptural Text for Psalm 46)” url=”https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/ot\/ps\/46?lang=eng”][vc_column_text]\n\nhttps:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song_087_700700_The_First_Prayer.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_087_700700_The_First_Prayer.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_087_700700_The_First_Prayer.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]Song 087 referenced in Song 007 \u2013 Froggie Learns the Gospel<\/a> and Song 054 \u2013 The Wooden Shoe<\/a>, in the writeup for Song 086a-b \u2013 Be Still Geologists \/ Geophysicists<\/a>, and was used as the music for Psalm 46<\/a>. To provide some context for the origin of this song, The Wholesome Meat Act of 1967<\/a>, part of Lyndon Johnson\u2019s Great Society Programs, became effective December 15th<\/sup> of 1967. It required all states to have meat inspection programs \u201cequal to\u201d Federal Government inspection programs administered by the Food Safety and Inspection Services of the Department of Agriculture. I mentioned in the description of Song 076 \u2013 Rain<\/a> how Nelson Meat Packing Plant was shut down at the end of the summer of 1969 as a result of this law. Because of my geophysics scholarship at the University of Utah, the summer of 1970 I went to work for Pan American Petroleum in Denver, Colorado. I lived in an apartment on Corona Street with Riley Skeen from the University of Utah, just off of West Colfax Avenue near downtown Denver. I made a friend with Quentin Reed, a hippie from Orange, Texas who claimed Houston, Texas as his home. We met through the Young Adult program of the LDS Church. We both played guitars.\u00a0 One night, about 3:00 in the morning, Quentin came into my room in the apartment building (I\u2019m not sure how he got in the building or why my door was not locked), woke me up, and said, “I started a song I need you to help me finish.”\u00a0Song 087 \u2013 The First Prayer<\/a> is the song we wrote early that morning. This song captures Quentin\u2019s conversion in Houston and my conversion, as a young \u201cJack Mormon\u201d in Corvallis, Oregon, the summer of 1968 (referenced in Song 007 \u2013 Froggie Learns the Gospel<\/a>, Song 052 \u2013 Rush Lake Blues<\/a>, and written out in Thoughtlet 9715<\/a>, which \u00a0I wrote in 1997. We actually sang this song a couple of times when I was on my Mission, and it has been a very important verbalization of my testimony of the reality of God and of the restoration of His true church for me ever since the summer of 1970 when a hippie from Houston, Texas and a Jack Mormon from Cedar City, Utah were inspired to describe their conversions in a song.<\/p>\n

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