{"id":2801,"date":"2024-01-22T23:36:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T23:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2024-01-22T23:36:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T23:36:47","slug":"evensong-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2801","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 102"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019m in trouble. Here\u2019s my problem, and I need a solution quickly. Why? Because I\u2019m old; my health sucks, and \u201cI am like a pelican in the wilderness; \/ I am like an owl of the desert.\/ I lie awake, \/ And am like a sparrow alone on the housetop.\u201d That\u2019s this poet\u2019s story in a nutshell.

This isn\u2019t David or Solomon \u2014 the psalmist, I mean. This psalm sounds like it was written by either my man Asaph or a son of Korah. This man appreciates nature and knows how to use metaphor and simile. This sad song about living and dying is one of the best psalms I\u2019ve read.

\u201cFor I have eaten ashes like bread, \/ And mingled my drink with weeping, \/ Because of Your indignation and Your wrath, \/ For You have lifted me up and cast me away,\u201d the psalmist tells YHWH. \u201cMy days are like a shadow that lengthens, \/ And I wither away like grass.\u201d How sad.

As a student of constructing compositions, I\u2019m confident that whoever penned this psalm also wrote Ecclesiastes \u2014 this psalm, in fact, being a 28-verse, condensed version of the greatest book in my Bible. The \u201cpreacher\u201d basically says: I am earth, nothing but dirt; You are stardust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m in trouble. Here\u2019s my problem, and I need a solution quickly. Why? Because I\u2019m old; my health sucks, and \u201cI am like a pelican in the wilderness; \/ I am like an owl of the desert.\/ I lie awake, \/ And am like a sparrow alone on the housetop.\u201d That\u2019s this poet\u2019s story in … Continue reading EVENSONG 102<\/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-2801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801","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=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}