Swindoll - The Man Who Bought a Yacht

We try to hide our lack of wisdom. Like the man who bought a yacht. His wife was nervous because he had no experience sailing. But he knew he could handle it and so for weeks he practiced in the harbor before taking it out to sea. Finally he talked his nervous wife into going on the yacht with him. Gingerly she stepped aboard. Out of the harbor they headed and he tried to put her at ease. He said, “Honey, look, I practiced enough in this harbor to know where every rock, every reef, every sand bar is.” At that very moment a huge hidden rock beneath the surface made a large crunching sound from stem to stern. “There,” he said with a sheepish grin, “is one of them going by now.” (Swindoll’s Ultimate Book of Illustrations & Quotes, p. 612).