Hi Randy,

Thank you for stopping by and commenting.  I agree that inspiration is ongoing and requires perseverance. Perhaps I should not have made this sound so much like an either this or that scenario.  Certainly my intention is always that we persevere.  My thought was that we should persevere in a direction that is satisfying and fulfilling, one that builds us and our communities.  In this way our work is less simple perspiration and more simply inspiring. As Malcolm Gladwell says, "Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning."