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January 17, 2006

the hundred and first blow

Saw this a few days ago on maggi dawn's blog. It has walked with me for a little while, so thought I'd post it here:

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at a rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it – but all that had gone before.”

God is a Sea: The Dynamics of Christian Living, by David Walker - p 63

Posted by gary at January 17, 2006 11:04 AM

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That's a great thing to remember. It can be so hard to keep up motivation when you can't see any fruit from your labour. But it does pay off if you stick at it long enough. Even if it's not in the way you had envisaged.

Posted by: Megan at January 17, 2006 11:53 AM

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