Welcome to Tuesday!
I've heard the word "unprecedented" bandied about a lot lately, have you? I think it is a word that adequately describes what it is that we are all experiencing. If you think about it for very long though, every day is "unprecedented"! Yes, there are routines and normal things that we experience from one week to the next, however, even those things are subtly different as the weeks go by. I suggest that it is a rare occasion where you find yourself doing the exact same thing the exact same way in your routine. Priorities change as an incomplete task from a previous period becomes much more important. An unsuccessful attempt at a project becomes a successful 2nd endeavor. Why even our sleep patterns are never the same. Sometimes you just sleep. Other times, your imagination takes over in your subconscious and you feel like you need a...
Since the early 80s, "Dream Weaver" has been a feature song on television and the movies. With the addition of routine airplay on the radio, it would be difficult to find someone who hasn't heard the song. (Unless of course, they are visiting an astral plane!) It spent 20 weeks in Billboard's Hot 100, peaking at #2. Surprisingly, the follow-up single to "Dream Weaver", "Love is Alive" recorded 7 more weeks on the charts as it also peaked at #2. These two songs would be the most successful of Gary Wright's 18 singles from his solo recording career, putting him a step above many one-hit wonders of his time.
While Gary Wright may not be known by the musical masses, he recorded and had a friendship with a Rock icon that most of the music masses do know, George Harrison (Tuesday's Musical Notes - "The Light that has Lighted the World" (George Harrison), Tuesday's Musical Notes - "Got My Mind Set on You" (George Harrison)). Wright would be among artists Eric Clapton (Tuesday's Musical Notes - "Promises" (Eric Clapton)), Ringo Star, Peter Frampton, Dave Mason (Tuesday's Musical Notes - "We Just Disagree" (Dave Mason)), Ginger Baker, as well as 27 other musicians to record on Harrison's November 27, 1970 album All Things Must Pass. The interaction between Wright and Harrison would be so strong, that Harrison invited the Dream Weaver to play keyboards on successive albums of Harrison's in the 70s as well as other releases that the former Beatle produced for Apple Records.
His studio work with Harrison and others fueled his solo career. His last studio album was 2010's Connectedand he continues to tour (at least he did until EVERYTHING GOT SHUT DOWN...sorry, that's been bubbling underneath the surface...I feel better now...)
When last we left our intrepid Dream Weaver, Joseph, he was still assisting in the running of the prison in which he was unjustly incarcerated. He had an opportunity for redemption when the cupbearer to Pharoah was restored to his position, but was alas, soon forgotten as the cupbearer went about his duties. But things are about to change for our hero as the night closes in on Pharoah and he climbs aboard the dream weaver train...
I don't know about you, but after hearing about Pharoah's dreams, I don't feel so bad dreaming about chasing a gorilla in the garage! Have you ever had those dreams that woke you up in the middle of the night? If you haven't please email me at rawacr@gmail.comwith your pre going to bed regimen!!! But, I digress... Pharoah had a nightmare. This was the ruler of most of the known world of the time, but, he wasn't exempt from being human and having bad dreams. Pharoah's dreams were like many of my nightmares, I wake up and can't figure out what in the world was going on, much less if it means something. You too? Thank goodness! The difference between us and Pharoah is that he had magicians on the payroll whose job it was to explain instances such as this. Their attempt to interpret amounted to an epic fail.
Then Pharaoh's cupbearer has a facepalm moment and remembers our ever hopeful hero, Joseph. He tells Pharaoh about Joseph and immediately gets him out of the dungeon. After a bit of spit and polish, Joseph is presented before Pharoahas a dream weaver and begins to find out what the situation currently is. After Pharaoh recounts his nightmares, he asks Joseph to interpret. Remember Pharoah had two sequential dreams and repetition in the Bible means that something important is going on.
Joseph provides 2 things. First of all, he asserts his God as the only one who can interpret dreams (imagine how those magicians felt). Secondly, he proceeds to tell what the dreams mean.
Joseph's interpretation of Pharoah's flight through the starry skies seemed good to the king of the land and he began to take action. Actions that were unprecedented for his time. Hmmm, seems like I've heard that somewhere before...
Takeaways from Genesis 41? 1) Be patient. Even when folks don't fulfill the obligations they have told you they would. Remember, folks aren't in control of anything, but God is. 2) When there is something in the Bible and it is repeated, PAY ATTENTION to it. It really is important or else God wouldn't waste your eye strength and His writer's time in repeating it. God always does things with a purpose. Especially in times that are unprecedented we must remember, the dawn is coming soon, and we believe He can get us through the night.
Thanks for reading Tuesday's Musical Notes, as always, please check out the archives to the left of the page. They are listed by the month (yup, since mid-2012 we haven't missed a Tuesday!) You can also search in the box above the months for your favorite song or artist. (We've tried it works, hence the links embedded after the artist's name!) Go ahead, especially if you are stuck at home. They are all family-friendly (we tell you when to put your hand over your children's eyes) so share them with your kids as well as all of your friends. We even heard of one reader using them as small group material...I don't know that I would go that far, but use it in any way you want. As always we are commercial and pop-up-ad free just so you don't have any distractions. (like all the embedded parenthetical aren't enough of a distraction...insert eye roll...)
Thanks again! See ya next week at Tuesday's Musical Notes!!!
'Til Tuesday,
Serving HIM by serving You,
randy
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