By Fr Bruno FERRERO 
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Two lumberjacks were working in the same forest felling trees. The logs were massive, solid and tenacious. The two lumberjacks used their axes with identical skill, but with a different technique: the first one struck his tree with incredible steadiness, one blow after another, without stopping except to catch his breath a few seconds.
The second logger made a discreet stop every hour he worked.
By sunset, the first woodcutter was halfway up his tree. He had sweated blood and tears and would not have lasted five minutes longer.
The second was incredibly at the end of his trunk. They had started together and the two trees were the same!
The first logger could not believe his eyes.
“I don’t get it! How did you manage to go so fast if you were stopping every hour?”
The other smiled: “You saw that I was stopping every hour. But what you did not see is that I was taking advantage of the stop to sharpen my axe.”
Your spirit is like the axe. Don’t let it rust. Sharpen it a little every day.