{"id":2723,"date":"2023-12-22T01:56:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T01:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2023-12-27T03:01:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T03:01:40","slug":"evensong-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2723","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 80"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"822\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231221_184037-822x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231221_184037-822x1024.jpg 822w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231221_184037-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231221_184037-768x957.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231221_184037-1232x1536.jpg 1232w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231221_184037-1643x2048.jpg 1643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve noted that Asaph was a singer-songwriter in the court of King David. Later he performed at King Solomon\u2019s coronation and then stayed on as a court musician. He was their Willie Nelson.<br><br>Like our Red Headed Stranger, Asaph was a poet and a wise man. He was even a prophet like Willie, though his books weren\u2019t The Tao of Asaph, or Roll Me Up and Mummify Me When I Die.<br><br>The more I read about Asaph, the more I wonder if he was the brains behind the wisdom books in the Old Testament. Tonight\u2019s psalm is the eighth of twelve that he gets actual credit for writing.<br><br>Just as Matthew, Mark, Luke and John probably didn\u2019t pen their eponymous gospels, I seriously doubt that kings David and Solomon wrote Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs.<br><br>But back to this 80th Psalm by old Asaph, it\u2019s structured like a pop song \u2014 verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, bridge, verse, chorus. Its superscription pairs it with a tune known as \u201cThe Lilies.\u201d<br><br>As with any good hymn or pop song, you get the gist of it from the repeated chorus: \u201cRestore us, O God; \/ Cause Your face to shine, \/ And we shall be saved!\u201d Also, lilies represent a divine oath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve noted that Asaph was a singer-songwriter in the court of King David. Later he performed at King Solomon\u2019s coronation and then stayed on as a court musician. He was their Willie Nelson. Like our Red Headed Stranger, Asaph was a poet and a wise man. He was even a prophet like Willie, though his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2723\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 80<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2734,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}