Thanks for that inspiring quote.
Here is an item I ran across and thought I would share it.
KEEP HAMMERING
The idea of taking one day at a time may seem very
narrow. However, never underestimate the cumulative
effect of the days that we live. Take, for example, a
single penny. If you see a penny lying on the sidewalk,
you hardly feel it's worth the effort to bend over and
pick it up. But suppose you began to double that penny
each day for a month. At the end of a week you would
have only sixty-four pennies. That's not very
impressive-but at the end of a month you would have
536,870,912 pennies; or $5,368,709.12 more than five
million dollars!
One moment may not seem important in one day, but as we
begin to multiply those moments, it's astounding, how
many we would have in a month. My little calculator
doesn't have the capacity to tell me how many moments
we have in a year, and it is utterly beyond my
imagination to think about how many moments could be
accrued in a lifetime.
Watch a stonecutter bang away at the stone with his
hammer and wedge. He might hit the stone a hundred
times with no apparent effect, but on the hundred and
first blow, the stone cracks. The point is, the hundred
and first lick did not crack the stone itself; it was
the cumulative effect of the hundred blows before that
brought the results.
That is the way our moments and days work. Sometimes it
seems we're making little progress; sometimes it seems
all of our efforts are useless, but we keep trying; we
struggle without giving up. Then one day the victory we
have sought belongs to us. It was not that final
effort-it was all the effort that went before.
Like The Stonecutter, We Should Hammer Our Way Through
To Success!!!!
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