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FOREWORD
Youth often confuses learning with wisdom but we know that learned persons are not necessarily wise men nor wise men learned.
In my career spanning four decades as a Mining Engineer and Manager I have often pondered God’s plan in forming the earth’s crust of various minerals and metals. Mankind has the God given ability to recognize these gifts and treat and adapt them for himself. Yet, these minerals and metals have to be sought after and their refining perfected.
In the same way, nothing of great value comes easy and in God’s wisdom He makes us search for truth and strive for perfection.
Ray Dale, in these quotations collected so painstakingly over the years, shows his own wisdom in perceiving that which is worthwhile and presenting it to us in such a simple way.
He dedicates the book to his sons Nicholas and Matthew but it could well be to all sons, and daughters, who wish to think beyond the immediate and absorb one of God’s great gifts - wisdom.
Gordon. M. Freeman A.C.S.M. C. ENG. S.A.M.M.C. F.I.M.M.
Past General Manager. BHP Australia
SOMETHING ABOUT ME
I was sitting tripping out on a cliff edge when realisation hit home with the how to get out of this rut I had bogged myself in. Tossing my well worn travel patched backpack far out beyond the edge I turned and walked away owning nothing except that which I stood up in and a big bag of mushrooms.
The drifting started after the second accident when 18 and barely back on my feet. Turning 21 I received $14,000 compensation for being knocked from my push bike by an old Chevy doing 60 miles per hour. Bouncing off the bonnet I flew head first through the windscreen into its back seat. I remained comatose four weeks. Unable to continue my electrician apprenticeship I began hiking around NZ looking for work. Soon broke and sleeping rough I was booked and locked up for vagrancy. The very day I received the money I bought myself a British Racing Green MG sports car and zoomed around so fast I never saw a thing.
A grim nightmare warned, “This money will soon be gone and you will be left with nothing but sadness and regret.” There and then I decided if I am going to blow it than lets go see the world. I brought the best aluminium framed canvas backpack and a fine pair of walking boots and of I went. During the following years I did manage to see a fair bit, working and hitching my way around. Eventually ended in Australia drifting around camping in siding parked first class rail sleeping carriages. The occasional trespass charge resulting in a day or two, but mostly would they yarn awhile then carry on in peace. By day I wandered around selling lines written in the soft dancing glow from a single wicker flame, dream pipe in hand. I never sold much but I sure met lots of interesting people.
It worked! Poetry, passport, everything went over the cliff that day beginning a new life without a house on my back.
How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource. We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
God touched me in a life changing way in April 1978, whilst sitting upon the loo, meditating on W Holman Hunt’s portraiture of “The Light of the World” hanging right there on the wall in front of my face. Eighteen months before, the day after obtaining this intriguing artwork, an attractive young lass walks up and hands me something. Wow it was a stamp size copy of the Holman print. “Look carefully,” she beckoned, “there is no handle on the door Jesus is knocking on. That door is the door to your heart and you are the only one able to open it and ask Him in. .
QUOTATION TOPICS
Adversity, Advice, Ability, Age, Anger, Art, Attitude, Bankers, Beauty, Books, Censorship, Change, Character, Circumstances, Civilisation, Computers, Corporations, Corruption, Courage, Creativity, Crime, Dare, Darkness, Death, Democracy, Destiny, Difficulties, Discipline, Doubt, Dreams, Education, Energy, Enthusiasm, Evolution, Experience, Failure, Famous Forecasts, Faults, Fear, Freedom, Genius, Goals, Government, Greatness, Habit, Happiness, Hope, History, Ideas, Imagination, Impossibilities, Justice, Knowledge, Law, Leadership, Learning, Life, Listening, Loneliness, Love, Marriage, Media, Memory, Mind, Mistakes, Money, New World Order, Opportunity, Pain, Patience, Peace, Persistence, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Procrastination, Reading, Security, Service, Science, Solitude, Sorrow, Speak, Success, Suffering, Talent, Taxes, Television, Terrorism, Thought, Time, Trouble, Truth, Vision, War, Wisdom, Work, Worry, Write
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