{"id":3056,"date":"2018-04-03T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2018-04-13T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:00:13","slug":"song-001-3-4-2-3-3-2-2-2-4-2-3-2-5-7-6-3-2-3-2-3-2-7-2-13-14-2-5-2-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=3056","title":{"rendered":"Song 098 – The Eighth Psalm"},"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 098 (Scriptural Text 8th Psalm)” url=”https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/ot\/ps\/8?lang=eng”][nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” text=”Song 098 (Scriptural Text Psalm 144)” url=”https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/ot\/ps\/144?lang=eng”][vc_column_text]\n\nhttps:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song_098_851020_The_Eighth_Psalm.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_098_851020_The_Eighth_Psalm.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_098_851020_The_Eighth_Psalm.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 8<\/a> and for Psalm 144<\/a>. In 1985 I started taking Will and Ariel Durant\u2019s \u201cThe Story of Civilization\u201d to work and reading for about an hour each lunch hour. It became a wonderful time of contemplation. They have a little book that goes with this 11-volume set, \u201cThe Lessons of History,\u201d which included summaries of some of the things that impressed them most as they finished their life\u2019s work. One of these things were the words of the eighth Psalm. As a guitar player and member of The Keynotes and The MydKnight Hour all through High School, I had always liked how The Byrds had included words from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8<\/a> in their song Turn! Turn! Turn!<\/a> So, I took the words of David\u2019s Eighth Psalm<\/a> and put them to music. I really liked the results, and would sing it at ward, youth, and scout campouts. It was 9,622 days later I put the 32nd<\/sup> Psalm<\/a> to music<\/a> on the 23rd<\/sup> of February 2012. Then 61 days after this, I put Psalm 105<\/a> to music<\/a> on the 24th<\/sup> of April 2012. This was the first time I used music from one of my songs, the music from Song 076 \u2013 Job<\/a>. About this time, we fed the missionaries<\/a>, Elder Fischer and Elder Reese 3 times at 1307 Emerald Green Lane<\/a> in Houston, Texas. When we feed the missionaries, I typically sing Song 007 \u2013 Froggie Learns the Gospel<\/a>. I think both Elders were musicians, but certainly Elder Reese was. Anyway, on their last visit they asked if I had written any new songs, and I sang one of the Psalms I had recently\u00a0 put to music. Elder Reese quipped, \u201cAre you going to put all of the Psalms to music?\u201d His comment changed my life. It was only 141 days after this I put the last of the psalms to music, Psalm 42<\/a> to the music<\/a> of Song 041 \u2013 A Love Song for Andrea<\/a>. This means that in 202 days I put 171 Psalms to the music of my songs. About the time I finished, I had the assignment for name verification as a Houston Temple worker, when Elder Reese walked down the hall alone, and I was able to tell him I had completed \u201chis assignment\u201d and what a special experience it had been for me. This was an absolutely wonderful spiritual journey. The recording and the sharing of these songs and psalms is a continuation of this very personal journey.<\/p>\n

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