LAKE OCONEE —
Do you know the story about Robert Flaherty? As a young man, film director Robert Flaherty spent many months in the far north looking for iron ore and cod. He found neither, but he did shoot 70,000 feet of film in his travels. Someone encouraged him to edit the film and make a documentary, which Flaherty spent weeks doing. But just as he finished, a match from his cigarette dropped among the celluloid, consuming the entire film and burning Flaherty badly. His response to the disaster was a determination to return to the far north and make a film of Eskimo life "that people will never forget." He did just that, and the result was the classic 1922 documentary, Nanook of the North.
What would you do? Think about it. Wishing you much love and much light
The Rev. David W. Key can be reached at (404) 727-6350 or dkey@emory.edu. .
Life Lessons
Robert Flaherty teaches us perseverance
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Contentment is a mindset and goal to strive for
I hope you have contentment in your life. If not, God can be a wonderful source of finding it.
- Is discipline still an active part of your lifestyle?
- Are you remembering to use all your resources?
- Manage your life before you try to manage others
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Help others achieve through motivation and advice
Have you coached anyone lately? I hope so.
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Seek a religious community that challenges you
Martin Luther reminds us that a religion that gives nothing, costs nothing and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
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Discernment serves us well throughout life's trials
We desperately need to cultivate this spiritual skill that will enable us to know right from wrong.
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Have you ever considered God's joke on the Devil?
If you don't have any plans, please join me for the 13th Annual Easter Sunrise Service at 7 a.m. at the Reynolds Plantation Pavilion. If that is too early, join me at 9 a.m. at the Reynolds Lake Club or at 10:30 at the LOCC.
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Hope to see you Easter Sunday
Nathan Schaffer helps us understand that at the close of life, the question will not be, “How much have you gotten?” but “How much have you given?”
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Realize what Christianity is all about
Kierkagaard in “And I looked around and nobody was laughing” says this, “I went into church and sat on the velvet pew. I watched as the sun came shining through the stained glass windows. The minister dressed in a velvet robe opened the golden gilded Bible, marked it with a silk bookmark and said, ‘If any man will be my disciple, said Jesus, let him deny himself, take up his cross, sell what he has, give it to the poor, and follow me.’”
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