Lake Oconee Breeze

August 18, 2010

Inspiration comes not from waiting but through work

By David Key
Lake Oconee Breeze

LAKE OCONEE — Ernest Newman reminds us that great composers do not set down to work because they are inspired, but become inspired because they are working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day in his  or her figures. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration.

How about you?  Are you waiting for that inspiration from God?  Don’t.  Get to work.  It will come.  Wishing you much love and much light.

 

—The Rev. David W. Key, director of the Baptist Studies Program, is involved in recruitment, admissions, student life, counseling, placement, and development functions for Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. He teaches in the Contextual Education program. He is the founding pastor of the Lake Oconee Community Church at Reynolds Plantation. Contact him at (404) 727-6350 or dkey@emory.edu. His

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