Shattered Dreams

A Story of Hope: "It's always darkest before the dawn"

First steps along the writing journey, "The book of life"

SHATTERED DREAMS

by craig lock

A short e-book being written and uploaded, as I write it.

BROKEN DREAMS

As children bring
their broken toys
With tears for us to mend,
I brought my broken dreams
to God
Because He was my Friend.
But then instead
of leaving Him
in peace to work alone,
I hung around
and tried to help
With ways that
that were my own.
At last I snatched them back
and cried,
“How can You be so slow?”
“My child,” He said,
“What could I do?
You never did let go.”
Robert J Burdette (July 30, 1844 – November 19, 1914)

“ Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 New International Version (NIV)

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
Matthew 6:33-7:13-14

Author’s Note:
You don’t have to click on the links in this “interactive” e-book or “fook”, if you don’t want to. I’m just experimenting, exploring the digital world here. For myself, I prefer to focus and have to concentrate a lot when reading (it’s a very “cerebral”* activity), so avoid distractions. However, YOU choose the path you wish to take!
* big word, eh, like ‘marmalade’, as my dear dad used to say!

PART ONE: EARLY DAYS OF HOPE
CHAPTER: TWO: THE WRITER IS BORN.
*from I’ll Do It My Way’ and ‘Writing into the Light

I'll Do It My Way: My Story

Writing into the Light, I'll Do It My Way and My Story

All these books are available at Kobo

While he was still manager at NZI Life, Craig decided to fill in some of the long and boring days by doing some research and writing on stress, goal setting, motivation etc. He also wrote a short book on how he became politically aware, which his secretary typed for him. He certainly had a way with words and a real talent for writing. Shortly after this, he was made redundant and just before he left the life insurance company, we purchased a word processor. Doing this was a bit of a gamble, seeing that neither of us knew the faintest thing about word processing. However, his secretary assured us that it would come in extremely useful for his writing. History proved her correct and the word processor is one of the best investments we have ever made.
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Craig went to South Africa shortly after and left me with the whole manuscript for his book on stress to copy onto a disc. Talk about being dropped in it! It was a painstaking experience to put it mildly and the air was frequently blue, when I discovered that I'd deleted a whole file somehow or other. That disaster seemed to happen too often for my emotional health in the early days! However, as in most things, practice, while not making perfect, certainly helped and by the time Craig returned, six weeks later, I was fairly proficient and had put the whole manuscript on disc.
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There followed several months of trial and error in trying out business ideas and trying to find employment. Eventually through a process of elimination, Craig decided to write full time. He had never been so busy in his life and worked 8 sometimes 12 hours a day. Pretty soon he'd found a publisher for his first book, 'How to Survive the Nineties' and we were "over the moon". The writing career was taking off! It was a very exciting, yet nerve wracking time, waiting for the post, trying to find another publisher, or literary agents. Everything seemed to be in slow motion in the publishing world and it was a very frustrating period.
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We often went for long walks at beautiful Makorori Beach* and would discuss new projects, new books and would...