CHILDREN OF A KING

" ONE LINERS FOR YOUR SOUL" & ONE A DAY

              Take these seeds of thought below and turn THEM into a wisdom tree.

      one liners FOR YOUR SOUL

      Make Longer Better

 When Abraham Lincoln was born, the average marriage lasted about a dozen years - not because they ended in divorce but because life expectancy was so much shorter.

Today an average couple can be expected to be together for almost 50 years.  And yet…

      “We were married for 38 years and last year she dropped dead on the way to work.  I keep putting my feet down but I can’t find the floor.”

      “I was 62 years old and we’d been married for forty-one years.  Then he said he needed new challenges and just walked out.”

      Whether by death or divorce, too many sixty-plus folks are forced to find an elusive single blessedness. Yet single living is no easy road to travel when such a short time before it was a journey made by two    How can it be handled? Your bookstore is filled with uplifting stories of those who have survived.  Well, first don’t be ashamed to grieve. Accept the fact it is normal and could last for as short a time as six months or as long as four years.  However, put Disraeli’s words in your head and heart and see if they will stick, “Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief is the blunder of a lifetime.” 

      Go out the front door rather than hide behind it. Seek out new single friends if before this you have thought only in terms of couples, If it is a divorce and old friends were friends of both of you, caught in the middle some may feel uncomfortable and take the easy way out and ignore both of you. Don’t hold it against them or inside of you. Seek out new single friends..

      Beware!  The recovery process can make you forget the old truism, “Feed the pain.  Add the fat.”  When you are down and depressed, stupidity stands ready to take over in a moment.  Put positive suggestions up all around the house. Begin with the refrigerator, the recovery process can make you forget the old truism, “feed the pain - add the fat” and end with the bathroom mirror (and anywhere and everywhere in between).

      Rain may bring rainbows but, yes, it also brings rain. We all just have to learn to live with the one while looking for the other.

 

 

      ...BELOW  is YOUR 'ONE A DAY' for Today

CHILDREN OF A KING

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Late one afternoon when the sun seared and live for even the well off was difficult a group of starving, sick and beaten slaves staggered down a gangplank.

Their heads were bowed, their shoulders slumped, their feet dragged step by step…all but one.
This one stood tall and straight, his clear black eyes looked ahead and his shoulders were back.

“Who is he?” someone asked.

“He” replied one of the slave traders “is the son of a King.”

This is you and I my reading friend…we each are a child of God…a son or daughter of a King…created a little lower than the angels as the Bible reads.

Isaiah 40:31
Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

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            Check out Neil's 2 still available books on amazon.com.    

THERE ARE OTHER USED COPIES OF HIS 7 OTHER USED BOOKS AT MANY SITES

       THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN (AVAILLABLE ON KINDLE) & BEN FRANKLIN'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20TH CENTURY

       ORDER FROM THE AUTHOR AND RECEIVE AN AUTOGRAHED COPY and special author's price ($5 for Lincoln book $8 for Lincoln and Franklin book)($2 postage and handling) "You write what you want the autograph to read "To (insert name) Author's signature."

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       BELOW ARE SOME OF THE RAVE REVIEWS ABOUT "THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN."

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      "Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understanding and appreciation of Lincoln while revealing the Divine source of his strength."

      Lt. Colonel C.A. Olsen (Ret.) Asbury College (Professor Ret.)

"The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is an extremely well written book that investigates what might be termed the spiritual side of President Lincoln. It's both scholarly and very readable. I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of the President and with an altered and enlarged vision of the man:'

      William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer; author of Blood and Guile, and Wild Thorn

"Wyrick has authored a wonderful examination of the spirituality of one of American history's most devoutly religious leaders...a pleasant and readable book that has a rich depth of information."

      Maynard Pittendreigh Presbyterian minister

 

       "When it comes to invoking religion in support of any of their decisions, politicians need to sit at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr once called him 'America's greatest theologian.' Why so great? Because he invariably distinguished between human works and the works of the Almighty. As Wyrick says, 'He wore the mantLe of humility easily: because he was more impressed with what God was doing in the world than with what he, president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis, was doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between both human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes.' Lincoln would have agreed that it is better to leave God-talk out of politics than to decorate human proposals with divinity. This is a book for our American time. Through his careful study of Lincoln's career, Wyrick compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when piety transcends politics."

      Dr. Donald W. Shriver

      Emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Author of An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics

       "v. Neil Wyrick's fine work allows the reader to appreciate Abraham Lincoln's Christian commitment and his prophetic role in American history. Should have a wide readership."

      James H. Smylie Professor of Church History (Ret.) Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia

      "Neil Wyrick's The Spiritual Abraham Lincolnshould be read by anyone attempting to understand the man who was probably the most complex person to ever hold the office of president of the United States. Dr. Wyrick is intent on demonstrating that the spirituality so often expressed in Lincoln's writings and speeches was not merely lip service to a Deity, but rather expressions of a profound faith in a real God. It was this faith that provided the wisdom, compassion, insight and sometimes steel that Lincoln would need in fullmeasure as he led the United States through the Civil War. Dr. Wyrick's clear and unpretentious style of presentation is very much in keeping with the character ofhis subject, and in so doing, Wyrick makes his point very well that Lincoln, his beliefs, and the faith that formed them, are as relevant to a troubled America in 2004 as they were in 1863."

      Daniel Allen Butler, author of "Unsinkable"; The Full Story of the RMS Titanic, The Lusitania and The Age o f Cunard

WHAT DOES THE “ST” STAND FOR?

" ONE LINERS FOR YOUR SOUL" & ONE A DAY

              Take these seeds of thought below and turn THEM into a wisdom tree.

      one liner FOR YOUR SOUL

      PREPARATION IS A KINDNESS       

      An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of pain.It is an old cliché, and that’s why it is so true; “If you don’t have a will your State has one all made out for you.” 

      In short, if you have earned a degree in procrastination, how much will probate eat up?  Marilyn Monroe was worth one million dollars when she died.  Her heirs got one hundred thousand.

     Like buying insurance, preparing for the inevitable doesn’t hasten the day.  It just makes the day easier on those left behind.

      It isn’t that we don’t know certain things; it is rather that we forget that learning isn’t an automatic.  Therefore, in our senior years with more time on our hands a trip to the library or the bookstore can put us in touch with certain preparation musts that done or left undone can change our lives. 

          Such as the fact that growing older is a once in a lifetime experience so we might as well get it right. Such as wearing a hearing aid rather than false pride.  Or have blinking lights when you have a hard time hearing the phone or doorbell.  Or using a cane rather than courting a broken hip.  Or wear glasses rather than squinting while being half-blind.  Slowing down, handled intelligently, is better than a full stop handled stupidly.

      Nor should common sense be put on the back burner.  Rather, learn how to take criticism without looking for excuses.  And stop offering advice long after you know you should have ceased and desisted.

     Nor should you allow yourself to forget that giving love to adult children and grandchildren should be a love without any strings attached.  It must never be used to hold anyone in bondage nor ordered up like some desired commodity.  Love must be free; else it is not love.

      As we grow older we grow wiser simply by the act of experience.  It does take the added effort of applying this wisdom, otherwise we waste a lot of pain and problems that could and should teach us so very much.

      Would you have a mind that benefits from what life teaches you and columns like this suggest?  Then prepare for it  at every opportunity by giving it a workout on a regular basis.  Pull out those crossword puzzles, write that family memoir, watch at least some educational shows.  Stimulate the wonderful folds of your brain so they daily sit up and take note of what you have sought and what is often seeking you.

      Why add to your daily schedule as an always rather than constantly subtracting?  Because there is a great satisfaction in waking up each morning and looking in the mirror at a person you know is pursuing the integrity of being their best, doing their best and not prematurely giving up on life.

      Would you be creative in pursuing a new you that is an improvement?  Then write yourself some letters of encouragement and then mail them to yourself.  You’ll laugh tomorrow and at what you suggested to improve your today but then you will most likely go out and began to heed your own advice.  We both know the longer you practice POSTPONMENT the more likely you will not progress because you have not prepared.

      One thing is for sure, killing time can kill you.  Life without a purpose becomes pointless at any age.  The disadvantage of having nothing to do, nothing to learn, nothing to achieve is that you can’t stop to rest.  And yes, idlers don’t just waste time, they waste themselves.

      ...BELOW  is YOUR 'ONE A DAY' for Today

WHAT DOES THE"ST" STAND FOR?

These thoughts are added to each day.

(Use in your personal or church newsletters) (365 stories a year)

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He had stolen some sheep.

In the days in which the theft occurred and in the place where he lived, it was the custom and the law to brand the letter ST on his forehead. He could have left the community, he could have worn his hair long over his forehead in yet another place, but this was home and he had no desire to leave, so he stayed.

He decided to live down this evil thing which he had done. So, year after year after year he conducted himself with dignity, with Christian love, with faith, tenderness, courage and love; all those virtues which so few men practice with any repetition.

And as will happen with the passage of time, he became a very old man.

One day a stranger walking through town noticed the ST branded on his forehand and asked someone what it meant.
“I am not sure” came back the reply, “but I think it stands for saint.”

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CHANGE FOR THE BETTER...CHANGE FOR THE WORSE...OR NO CHANGE AT ALL?

" ONE LINERS FOR YOUR SOUL" & ONE A DAY

              Take these seeds of thought below and turn THEM into a wisdom tree.

      one liner FOR YOUR SOUL

An old friend told me years ago to remember that life is a grindstone that either grinds a man down or polishes him up. 

As for myself, I prefer not to forget that it is the rocks in the river that makes the river sing and that one is better off if he or she chooses to use them as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks.  

 

      ...BELOW  is YOUR 'ONE A DAY' for Today

CHANGE FOR THE BETTER...

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His name was Saul..of Tarsus..a tentmaker.

A man of wealth and position in the community.

When men began to follow Christ other men persecuted them and stoned them.

Saul was one of the persecutors.

And then one day with the white domes of Damascus gleaming on the horizon, Saul changed his name to Paul –his position to servant – his status quo to that of missionary.

He gave himself, completely, wholeheartedly, to someone called Christ.

He put it this way, “…I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.”

Yet another time he said, “Therefore work out your own salvation, for it is God which worketh in you.”

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     to go to Rev. Wyrick's other blog

Wyrick's Writings

            Check out Neil's 2 still available books on amazon.com.    

THERE ARE OTHER USED COPIES OF HIS 7 OTHER USED BOOKS AT MANY SITES

       THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN (AVAILLABLE ON KINDLE) & BEN FRANKLIN'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20TH CENTURY

       ORDER FROM THE AUTHOR AND RECEIVE AN AUTOGRAHED COPY and special author's price ($5 for Lincoln book $8 for Lincoln and Franklin book)($2 postage and handling) "You write what you want the autograph to read "To (insert name) Author's signature."

ORDER FROM Pageantry Inc. (The Church Without Walls), 7430 SW 59th Street, Miami. Florida 33143

       TO VIEW REV. WYRICK'S AWARD WINNING ONE MAN DRAMAS Click on the following http://www.speakerneil.com/

       BELOW ARE SOME OF THE RAVE REVIEWS ABOUT "THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN."

++++++++++++++++

      "Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understanding and appreciation of Lincoln while revealing the Divine source of his strength."

      Lt. Colonel C.A. Olsen (Ret.) Asbury College (Professor Ret.)

"The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is an extremely well written book that investigates what might be termed the spiritual side of President Lincoln. It's both scholarly and very readable. I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of the President and with an altered and enlarged vision of the man:'

      William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer; author of Blood and Guile, and Wild Thorn

"Wyrick has authored a wonderful examination of the spirituality of one of American history's most devoutly religious leaders...a pleasant and readable book that has a rich depth of information."

      Maynard Pittendreigh Presbyterian minister

 

       "When it comes to invoking religion in support of any of their decisions, politicians need to sit at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr once called him 'America's greatest theologian.' Why so great? Because he invariably distinguished between human works and the works of the Almighty. As Wyrick says, 'He wore the mantLe of humility easily: because he was more impressed with what God was doing in the world than with what he, president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis, was doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between both human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes.' Lincoln would have agreed that it is better to leave God-talk out of politics than to decorate human proposals with divinity. This is a book for our American time. Through his careful study of Lincoln's career, Wyrick compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when piety transcends politics."

      Dr. Donald W. Shriver

      Emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Author of An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics

       "v. Neil Wyrick's fine work allows the reader to appreciate Abraham Lincoln's Christian commitment and his prophetic role in American history. Should have a wide readership."

      James H. Smylie Professor of Church History (Ret.) Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia

      "Neil Wyrick's The Spiritual Abraham Lincolnshould be read by anyone attempting to understand the man who was probably the most complex person to ever hold the office of president of the United States. Dr. Wyrick is intent on demonstrating that the spirituality so often expressed in Lincoln's writings and speeches was not merely lip service to a Deity, but rather expressions of a profound faith in a real God. It was this faith that provided the wisdom, compassion, insight and sometimes steel that Lincoln would need in fullmeasure as he led the United States through the Civil War. Dr. Wyrick's clear and unpretentious style of presentation is very much in keeping with the character ofhis subject, and in so doing, Wyrick makes his point very well that Lincoln, his beliefs, and the faith that formed them, are as relevant to a troubled America in 2004 as they were in 1863."

      Daniel Allen Butler, author of "Unsinkable"; The Full Story of the RMS Titanic, The Lusitania and The Age o f Cunard

 

 

    

 

YES, ANYBODY CAN CHANGE AND MANY HAVE

" ONE LINERS FOR YOUR SOUL" & ONE A DAY

              Take these seeds of thought below and turn THEM into a wisdom tree.

      one liner FOR YOUR SOUL

   There are things we can do to help God help us.  When you worry and are upset over a real problem, remember that it shouldn’t be a one man or one woman activity. 

You may not be prone to burden others with something that is setting your emotions on edge, but even Jesus when things got tough and dirty called in his friends, his disciples. 

He did it in the Garden of Gethsemane.       He did it at the Last Supper.  The humanity in Him knew it was a time to share, to confide.

Talking about your problem with some-one close can also help your perspective. 

For just you alone, it is always the problem of not being able to see the forest because of the tree. 

Maybe the other person has gone through what you are going through or something similar.  It is a mathematical solution really, two points of view are always better than just one.    

Would you ease your anxieties? 

Then pause and try placing your problems and anxieties second in line while considering the problems and anxieties of someone else.  That’s right. 

Just in case you’re not sure you heard me correctly, I did just say you need to think and pray about someone else’s problems even when you already have enough of your own.       That’s a tall order, but it is truly the best way to keep from being overwhelmed by self pity

These thoughts are added to each day.

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...BELOW  is YOUR 'ONE A DAY' for Today

YES, ANYONE  CAN,,,

His name was Starr Daily. He was a thief, a bum, a liar. He had been in more jails than most people have been in grocery stores.

One day as he stood before a judge for sentencing, the judge said, “I don’t know what to do with you and I know sending you back to jail isn’t going to help. You’re just a lost cause, a hopeless case.”

Starr Daily spat out his defiance in reply and was dragged from the courtroom.

A few years later he had become one of Washington D.C’s most respected reporters…because one day…he simply changed…and where he had believed in nothing now, now completely, wholeheartedly gave himself to someone.

In his own words this is what happend "I’ve said that in one tense, dark moment in my life a warm spring of living water welled up in my heart, and a bright unearthly light broke in my head."

Psalms 34:17-19
Yes, the Lord hears the good man when he calls to Him for help, and saves him out of all his troubles. The Lord is close to those whose heart is breaking; He rescues those who are humbly sorry for their sins. The good man does not escape all troubles - he has them, too. But the Lord helps him in each and every one.
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     And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
     DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE.
       click on the FOLLOWING URL

http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/

     to go to Rev. Wyrick's other blog

Wyrick's Writings

            Check out Neil's 2 still available books on amazon.com.    

THERE ARE OTHER USED COPIES OF HIS 7 OTHER USED BOOKS AT MANY SITES

       THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN (AVAILLABLE ON KINDLE) & BEN FRANKLIN'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20TH CENTURY

       ORDER FROM THE AUTHOR AND RECEIVE AN AUTOGRAHED COPY and special author's price ($5 for Lincoln book $8 for Lincoln and Franklin book)($2 postage and handling) "You write what you want the autograph to read "To (insert name) Author's signature."

ORDER FROM Pageantry Inc. (The Church Without Walls), 7430 SW 59th Street, Miami. Florida 33143

       TO VIEW REV. WYRICK'S AWARD WINNING ONE MAN DRAMAS Click on the following http://www.speakerneil.com/

       BELOW ARE SOME OF THE RAVE REVIEWS ABOUT "THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN."

++++++++++++++++

      "Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understanding and appreciation of Lincoln while revealing the Divine source of his strength."

      Lt. Colonel C.A. Olsen (Ret.) Asbury College (Professor Ret.)

"The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is an extremely well written book that investigates what might be termed the spiritual side of President Lincoln. It's both scholarly and very readable. I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of the President and with an altered and enlarged vision of the man:'

      William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer; author of Blood and Guile, and Wild Thorn

"Wyrick has authored a wonderful examination of the spirituality of one of American history's most devoutly religious leaders...a pleasant and readable book that has a rich depth of information."

      Maynard Pittendreigh Presbyterian minister

 

       "When it comes to invoking religion in support of any of their decisions, politicians need to sit at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr once called him 'America's greatest theologian.' Why so great? Because he invariably distinguished between human works and the works of the Almighty. As Wyrick says, 'He wore the mantLe of humility easily: because he was more impressed with what God was doing in the world than with what he, president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis, was doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between both human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes.' Lincoln would have agreed that it is better to leave God-talk out of politics than to decorate human proposals with divinity. This is a book for our American time. Through his careful study of Lincoln's career, Wyrick compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when piety transcends politics."

      Dr. Donald W. Shriver

      Emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Author of An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics

       "v. Neil Wyrick's fine work allows the reader to appreciate Abraham Lincoln's Christian commitment and his prophetic role in American history. Should have a wide readership."

      James H. Smylie Professor of Church History (Ret.) Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia

      "Neil Wyrick's The Spiritual Abraham Lincolnshould be read by anyone attempting to understand the man who was probably the most complex person to ever hold the office of president of the United States. Dr. Wyrick is intent on demonstrating that the spirituality so often expressed in Lincoln's writings and speeches was not merely lip service to a Deity, but rather expressions of a profound faith in a real God. It was this faith that provided the wisdom, compassion, insight and sometimes steel that Lincoln would need in fullmeasure as he led the United States through the Civil War. Dr. Wyrick's clear and unpretentious style of presentation is very much in keeping with the character ofhis subject, and in so doing, Wyrick makes his point very well that Lincoln, his beliefs, and the faith that formed them, are as relevant to a troubled America in 2004 as they were in 1863."

      Daniel Allen Butler, author of "Unsinkable"; The Full Story of the RMS Titanic, The Lusitania and The Age o f Cunard