Saturday, October 4, 2014

Sleep On It

There is the saying: "Sleep on it." There will be new thoughts in the morning. Not only may one sleep on it. Some of the most brilliant ideas came to people while in the shower, or walking up steps, or in the case of the computer genius Seymour Cray, while digging tunnels. In short, when the mind was out of gear. In the case of sermons, I have for many years had the custom first to do the reading and the research, but not the writing -- then sleep on it, and write the next day.

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