{"id":2925,"date":"2018-03-26T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2018-03-25T21:11:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T03:11:13","slug":"song-001-3-4-2-3-3-2-2-2-4-2-3-2-5-7-6-3-2-3-2-3-2-7-2-13-14-2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=2925","title":{"rendered":"Song 091 – I Once Saw A Family"},"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 091 (Scriptural Text Psalm 45)” url=”https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/ot\/ps\/45?lang=eng”][vc_column_text]\n\nhttps:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song_091_730508_I_Once_Saw_A_Family.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_091_730508_I_Once_Saw_A_Family.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_091_730508_I_Once_Saw_a_Family.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 45<\/a>. I have probably sung this song to others more than any song except Song 054 \u2013 The Wooden Shoe<\/a>. I wrote the music while I was at the University of Utah, sharing an apartment with Riley Skeen, in May of 1973. At the end of that summer, 0n Monday, the 6th<\/sup> of August 1973, we were visiting Marti\u2019s Aunt Betty in Aurora, Colorado (this was a month before Marti and I were married), I was left alone on the back porch, and I wrote out the words to the hope in my heart and what I saw in our future in my mind\u2019s eye. Each life goes through stages. As I approach the Great-Granddad stage, I see the words I wrote 45 years ago quite differently. It is almost as though I was seeing across time and space to where I am now. I love our Grandkids Science Summer Camps, and the time we spend sitting around the fire pit eating, talking, and sometimes the grandkids and kids even put up with my singing. It is my way of recalling stories told before. I watch them sing and play, and dance the time away, living their lives like a perfect rhyme. I always think big, and so I want all mankind to be a big happy family, loving and sharing all of the time. I recalled the cousin sleepouts on Grandma Nelson\u2019s lawn and running through grass short and tall. I recalled Nelson and Hafen Uncles and Aunts talking of when they were young and the things they did to have fun. It was the end of my second summer working in Denver and away from Cedar City, and I was homesick, as I prepared for the most important transition of my life. I dreamed of dinner time, when the family gathered around a long oak table for a feast. Can\u2019t you just see \u201csister serving, little brother trying to help, and tripping on a dog named Frodo?\u201d Probably my favorite words, which I have written, are \u201cEvening goes and the fire burns down low, with coals that look like children asleep. They all gathered \u2018round, in a circle on their knees, expressing thanks for days like these.\u201d So, it didn\u2019t turn out exactly like my \u201cvision.\u201d The photos to the left show it turned out wonderful, with 10 amazing children, soon to be back to 7 astounding in-laws, and 15 stupendous grandchildren.<\/p>\n

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