I ran into Ray Thompson, the founder of Semitool, at Sykes Diner earlier this summer in Kalispell. His wife Ladeine was playing the piano for the packed restaurant that Sunday morning. Ray came up and told me how one of these days he wanted to share just "two things" with our listeners across Montana.

Last week, at our request, he called in to our Montana Talks statewide radio show and did just that.

Here it is, the "two things" from Ray Thompson:

"I love sharing these with the Montana people, because in my mind these both describe and this is where we live and where you live as you're doing your stuff here in Montana, whatever God gave you to do.

The first one I is something that we used to see every Sunday morning in the adult Sunday school class in the room that we were in this building that was the Wycliffe Bible Translators headquarters down in Huntington Beach, California. And by the way, the church we went to was- the pastor was Bob Thune, who was Senator John Thune's older brother from Myrtle, South Dakota- and anyway, up there on the wall it said this, and this describes you Montanans, that's why it's worth sharing.

It said: I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and found that life was duty. I acted. And behold, duty is joy.

There you are Montanans, there is where you live. So many of you.

Now. The other one comes from a guy by the name of Bill Gothard who used to speak to people all over the country, about a million people altogether. And this is his definition of a servant's heart: being excited about making someone else successful.

Now, what I love about this- this is you Montanans. This is free enterprise. This is why freedom and free enterprise is so important to us, because it gives us that opening to listen to somebody's problem, and what I refer to as "probletunity". You hear the problem. This is the opportunity. Why? Because we have the freedom and we have the excitement to make someone else successful. And that's what all our people did here at Semitool. We were making other companies and the people within those companies successful."

 

Full audio with Ray Thompson can be heard in the below podcast: 

 

And here was Ladeine playing the piano at Sykes!

 

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