I thought I'd include here a quote made by a man I met a few times and who was greatly admired by myself and many others. A great rugby player, a great all around athlete and a great man, someone who really lived every moment of life. It was very sad to read of his death recently.
I know that my dad met Andy Ripley at his beloved Roslyn Park rugby club and thought highly off him. My dad was the manager of our local Under 19 Rugby team at the time and after a match against Roslyn Park Andy came over to sit with the lads. He spent a lot of time with them offering advice and telling tales of his time playing for England and the British Lions in South Africa.
“Dare we hope? We dare. Can we hope? We can. Should we hope? We must, because to do otherwise is to waste the most precious of gifts, given so freely by God to all of us. So when we do die, it will be with hope and it will be easy and our hearts will not be broken.”
Andy Ripley
An inspirational quote most of which I agree with. The one part that I do have an issue with I shall talk about another time.
