The Song that’s still in you

Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

The final part is often attributed to Thoreau but does not appear in Walden – “and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

What song is still in you that’s yet to be written?  What is it that’s keeping you from singing that song as loud and off-key as you can so that at least someone can hear the blessing of the song?

Maybe you’re like me and can’t carry a tune with a fork-lift.  Perhaps you wonder what your great gift is, what business you could start, what realtionship could be like walking with the Lord.

Solomon noted in Ecclesiastes 9:7-11, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.”

The time is now for the new movies, the new music, new software, and new ideas that are in your mind.  Now is the time to enroll in that new class, write that new book, finish that new program – now is the time to do whatever you do with all your might.

Don’t settle for a life of quiet desperation.  Don’t go to the grave with the song still in you!