Psalm 42:8
At Night God's Song is with Me
8 By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me—
a prayer to the God of my life.
Cantus firmus is defined as an existing melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition...Dietrich Bonhoeffer used cantus firmus as a metaphor for love for God in his "Letters and Papers from Prison"...For Dietrich Bonhoeffer, life was a great work of music and song, and the cantus firmus was the essence, the soul of the best music...Bonhoeffer wrote, "God wants us to love him eternally with our whole hearts, not in such a way as to injure or weaken earthly life, but to provide a kind of cantus firmus to which the other melodies of life provide the counterpoint...Where the cantus firmus is clear and plain, the counterpoint can be developed to its limits."...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer saw life is this Great Story that is put to music...Life is a song for the soul...The Psalmist wrote by day the LORD directs His LOVE, at night His song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life...