KEEP AT IT – E. W. Kenyon

KEEP AT IT – E. W. Kenyon

Anytime I need a push within

Anytime I need a fire within my soul

Looking for an ember to set my thought ablaze

There are few things I do that never disappoint me

And one of them is going through this mini-book

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Written by E.W. Kenyon

Thus I deem it fit to put it out on my blog

After obtaining a free e-copy on the net

Follow me as we journey through it pages

Receiving of the ministry of this great man

I pray it spark a fire for impact within you:

Keep at It

“How did you ever do it?

I can't see how anyone could do a thing like that."

We were in a curio shop. On the table there

Was a whole army of little figures that had been

Whittled out by hand.

What hours of work must have been spent?

This friend of mine stood there, and looking

At them said, "how did you ever do it?"

The man smiled and said, "i just kept at it."

I went out of the door

I walked the street and i heard those three

Words, "kept at it, kept at it, kept at it."

How they rang through my soul

That man had "kept at it."

He had put life into it

He had made a success

People were coming from all parts of the

Country to see the effect of that cultivated

Trained genius

All that man had done was to train his mind

And hand, and then whittle his dreams out of

Wood, of soft stone and ivory

I was thrilled through and through at the

Possibilities that were wrapped up in common

Folk like you and me

I heard a girl play the piano. She was not

Over sixteen. I know something about music. We

Had a music department in our institution for

Many years

I looked into her face and i whispered in my

Own heart, "girl, you have spent hours

Pounding the keys while other girls were

Walking the street. While others were sleeping

And mother was trying to get them out of bed

You were pounding those keys.”

"you have lost a heap of good times, but

What a musician you are!"

She kept at it. That's why she won

I stood with a man, overlooking a beautiful

Farm in northern maine

I said to him, "who cleared this land? Who

Stumped it?”

Keep at it

He answered, "do you see that little log

House down there by the creek?"

"i built that, and wife and i moved into it

Before there was an acre of this land cleared. I

Vowed that i would clear every acre of it and put

It into crops, and i have done it."

That is the spirit that conquers

"i vowed i would do it, and i have done it."

I stood by the loom in the factory as a boy

And vowed that i would become an educator. I

Did not know what it meant, but i knew that

Within me was a teaching gift

An undeveloped thing

I vowed i would do it. I did it

I was handicapped as few men

Have been handicapped, but i did it

I am passing it on to you to show that they

Cannot conquer you if you will to do it

Struggle to improve

In every effort improve the dream

Every time you play that piece on the piano

Play it better than you played it before

Every time you sit down to that typewriter

Make up your mind that you are going to be

More efficient than you have ever been

Make your brain work. It will sweat, but

Make it work. It will improve. It will develop

Until you become a wonder to those around you

Don't depend on an alarm clock

Don't depend on mother's waking you

Make up your mind that you will

Have the alarm clock in your soul

Never depend on another man's car

Get one of your own

Be self-reliant

Be punctual

Be diligent

Think through on every problem

Conquer your difficulties

As a part of the day’s job

We are out in the fight

And we will win the crown.

Culled from E.W. Kenyon

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