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Remember Erma Bombeck? She wrote a piece one day about a little boy named Donald. I have a feeling he was a composite rather than a real person.
Nevertheless, getting inside Donald’s head is a good way to emphasize how foolishly we all can capture more uptight bugs than we know what to do with.
Just before his first day of school six-year old Donald proved he had worrying down pat.
His thoughts were as follows: My name is Donald. I don’t know anything. I have new underwear, a loose tooth and I didn’t sleep much last night. What if a bell rings and a man yells, “Where do you belong?” and I don’t know?
What if the trays in the cafeteria are too high for me to reach? What if my loose tooth comes out when we have our heads down and are supposed to be quiet? Am I supposed to bleed quietly?
What if I splash water on my nametag and my name disappears and no one knows who I am?”
The pain of anxiety is not inclined to go away without some spiritual and physical helps.
It is not to say that fear cannot be a friend when it keeps us from walking on glass, ingesting poison or running from a pit bull.
It is to say that foolish anxiety only runs around wearing holes in our brains, creating ulcers in our stomachs and making any peace we might otherwise have had break up in pieces.
We all agree that anxiety does exactly what the Greek translation in the New Testament says it does – it strangles the living daylights out of us. It curdles. It crumples. It cripples. We only have so much time and energy and it wastes both.
And what can we to ease our anxieties even if we can completely rid ourselves of them.
(…another idea to chew on) (A lack of forgiveness can produce an unbelievable amount of anxiety. One's insides get all out of whack. )
Check out your forgiveness list if you have one and if you don’t…start one.
Keep it full up and in order…unwrap any hurts or hates that have been infecting your psyche and throw them away and erase them from your thoughts and pen on your list “I forgive John…he does seem to work me overtime just doing it but I continue to do it anyway.” Do this and you will have less anxiety because not to do it is to have a disturbed spirit which is the perfect feeding ground for anxieties.
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Below is a quote from tomorrow’s blog entitled ANXIETY, FIGHT IT OR FEED IT (Second in new series)
“Have you heard about the man who had a plane to catch at a very early hour and then having set his alarm , sat on the edge of his bed all night long to make sure it went off on time He earned his PhD in anxiety.
He had worry down to a science. He believed that living one day at a time meant never or seldom sleeping so he would always know what time of day it was.
So then…”
BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES entitled ANGER IS A KILLER.
It beganThursday December 30, 2010. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies? No?
Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.
Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”
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Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
10 Commandments for Choirs
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1. Thou shalt not make a joyful noise unto the Lord with a sour puss.
2. Thou shalt open thy mouth to sing but not to complain or bear false notes or witness.
3. Thou shalt not try to steal the show for it is God thou art honoring and not thyself.
4 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors voice, but neither shalt thou become overly impressed with thine own.
5. Thou shalt honor choir practice night and keep it free, for he or she who does not practice becomes a monument to imperfection.
6. Thou shalt remember where thou art during Sunday worship and keep it holy.
A giggling chattering choir is an abomination to the Lord, a worry to the preacher,
and an irritation to the pew.
7. Thou shalt not put off joining the choir for procrastination doesn’t know or care about harmony. Thou shalt not put off quittin the choir when thou hast lost thy voice for then it is a gift in reverse.
8. Thou shalt not mumble thy words, but rather remember there is great charity in clarity.
9. Thou shalt not kill thy choir by competing with the choir director for his or her job.
10. Thou shalt not quit thy choir when thy feelings are hurt, but rather raise up these feelings fo the ministration of the Lord.
(This was first published in the Presbyterian Outlook in 1964. It has been published in many different magazines since and sent around from church to church. Please feel free to use it in any way you wish, placed in the choir room, etc. Most choir members are dedicated pleasing individuals who labor with diligence to give of their best to their Lord…but then we are all human and need to be reminded from time to time how it is we should conduct ourselves.)
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Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled ANXIETY, FIGHT IT OR FEED IT (First in new series
“Remember Erma Bombeck? She wrote a piece one day about a little boy named Donald. I have a feeling he was a composite rather than a real person. Nevertheless, getting inside Donald’s head is a good way to emphasize how foolishly we all can capture more uptight bugs than we know what to do with.
Just before his first day of school six-year old Donald proved he had worrying down pat. His thoughts were as follows: My name is Donald. I don’t know anything. I have new underwear, a loose tooth and I didn’t sleep much last night. What if a bell rings and a man yells, “Where do you belong?” and I don’t know? …”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES entitled ANGER IS A KILLER.
It begins Thursday December 30, 2010. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies? No?
Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.
Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”
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1. Thou shalt not make a joyful noise unto the Lord with a sour puss.
2. Thou shalt open thy mouth to sing but not to complain or bear false notes or witness.
3. Thou shalt not try to steal the show for it is God thou art honoring and not thyself.
4 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors voice, but neither shalt thou become overly impressed with thine own.
5. Thou shalt honor choir practice night and keep it free, for he or she who does not practice becomes a monument to imperfection.
6. Thou shalt remember where thou art during Sunday worship and keep it holy.
A giggling chattering choir is an abomination to the Lord, a worry to the preacher,
and an irritation to the pew.
7. Thou shalt not put off joining the choir for procrastination doesn’t know or care about harmony. Thou shalt not put off quittin the choir when thou hast lost thy voice for then it is a gift in reverse.
8. Thou shalt not mumble thy words, but rather remember there is great charity in clarity.
9. Thou shalt not kill thy choir by competing with the choir director for his or her job.
10. Thou shalt not quit thy choir when thy feelings are hurt, but rather raise up these feelings fo the ministration of the Lord.
(This was first published in the Presbyterian Outlook in 1964. It has been published in many different magazines since and sent around from church to church. Please feel free to use it in any way you wish, placed in the choir room, etc. Most choir members are dedicated pleasing individuals who labor with diligence to give of their best to their Lord…but then we are all human and need to be reminded from time to time how it is we should conduct ourselves.)
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Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled ANXIETY, FIGHT IT OR FEED IT (First in new series
“Remember Erma Bombeck? She wrote a piece one day about a little boy named Donald. I have a feeling he was a composite rather than a real person. Nevertheless, getting inside Donald’s head is a good way to emphasize how foolishly we all can capture more uptight bugs than we know what to do with.
Just before his first day of school six-year old Donald proved he had worrying down pat. His thoughts were as follows: My name is Donald. I don’t know anything. I have new underwear, a loose tooth and I didn’t sleep much last night. What if a bell rings and a man yells, “Where do you belong?” and I don’t know? …”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES entitled ANGER IS A KILLER.
It begins Thursday December 30, 2010. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies? No?
Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.
Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
TRANSFORMED OR CONFORMED (2nd in a series of two)
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A minister, a boy scout, and a computer expert were the only passengers on a small plane. The pilot came back to the cabin and said that the plane was going down but there were only three parachutes and four people.
The pilot then added, "I should have one of the parachutes because I have a wife and three small children." So he took one and jumped.
The computer whiz said, "I should have one of the parachutes because I am the smartest man in the world and everyone needs me."
So he took one and jumped.
The minister turned to the boy scout and said, "I have lived a good life and the Lord has been good to me. You take the remaining chute and I’ll go down with the plane."
The boy scout said, "Relax, reverend, the smartest man in the world just picked up my knapsack and jumped out!"
Sometimes, in the midst of this great adventure called life, this gift from God, if we are not careful we can be too smart for our good.
We pick and chose and we pick and chose badly.
And when it comes to moments when someone declares they are the masters of their fate and the captains of their souls it is a monumental mistake…monumental beyond the ability to so declare.
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The book of Romans 12:2 does lift up such an inspired quote, AS FOLLOWS, for us to chew on and digest in the center of our souls, “Be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (I sometimes like to think of this as a “rewiring of your mind.”
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Transformed or conformed? Making history or allowing ourselves to be made by it? Trans-formed or conformed? Molding society or shaped by it? Choosing Christ to such an extent that He is the master of our deeds rather than being influenced by every idle thought and action that proceedeth out of the mouths of our fellowmen.
Choose ye this day who you will be and who you will serve and give your soul to.
Remember that the greatest danger to freedom is freedom itself.
No one can take your freedom of choice away from you, but you can give it away. And remember! There is no one else on earth like you, and when you deny your destiny, you spit in the face of your heavenly father.
Therefore, allow God the privilege of making some revisions in your life because when He is through, you will be more courageous, more at peace, more kind, more like the child of this Father you were meant to be.
He will keep you from calling that which is evil, good. He will lead you to not pollute the air with profanity and call it freedom of expression. He will reward your choice with His ongoing presence.
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2 Corinthians 5:17
”Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES entitled ANGER IS A KILLER.
It begins Thursday January 6, 2010. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS) (3)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies? No?
Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.
Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”
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A minister, a boy scout, and a computer expert were the only passengers on a small plane. The pilot came back to the cabin and said that the plane was going down but there were only three parachutes and four people.
The pilot then added, "I should have one of the parachutes because I have a wife and three small children." So he took one and jumped.
The computer whiz said, "I should have one of the parachutes because I am the smartest man in the world and everyone needs me."
So he took one and jumped.
The minister turned to the boy scout and said, "I have lived a good life and the Lord has been good to me. You take the remaining chute and I’ll go down with the plane."
The boy scout said, "Relax, reverend, the smartest man in the world just picked up my knapsack and jumped out!"
Sometimes, in the midst of this great adventure called life, this gift from God, if we are not careful we can be too smart for our good.
We pick and chose and we pick and chose badly.
And when it comes to moments when someone declares they are the masters of their fate and the captains of their souls it is a monumental mistake…monumental beyond the ability to so declare.
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The book of Romans 12:2 does lift up such an inspired quote, AS FOLLOWS, for us to chew on and digest in the center of our souls, “Be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (I sometimes like to think of this as a “rewiring of your mind.”
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Transformed or conformed? Making history or allowing ourselves to be made by it? Trans-formed or conformed? Molding society or shaped by it? Choosing Christ to such an extent that He is the master of our deeds rather than being influenced by every idle thought and action that proceedeth out of the mouths of our fellowmen.
Choose ye this day who you will be and who you will serve and give your soul to.
Remember that the greatest danger to freedom is freedom itself.
No one can take your freedom of choice away from you, but you can give it away. And remember! There is no one else on earth like you, and when you deny your destiny, you spit in the face of your heavenly father.
Therefore, allow God the privilege of making some revisions in your life because when He is through, you will be more courageous, more at peace, more kind, more like the child of this Father you were meant to be.
He will keep you from calling that which is evil, good. He will lead you to not pollute the air with profanity and call it freedom of expression. He will reward your choice with His ongoing presence.
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2 Corinthians 5:17
”Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES entitled ANGER IS A KILLER.
It begins Thursday January 6, 2010. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS) (3)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies? No?
Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.
Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”
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V. Neil Wyrick’s ninth book is THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN and is now available on amazon.com at some rather good discount prices
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
CHOOSE YE THIS DAY (1st in a series of two)
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This is a true story…
A woman was on an overseas flight and began to have terrible pains in the center of her chest. She pushed the button to summon the flight attendant and told her she thought she was having a heart attack.
The announcement was made over the sound system that if a doctor was on board would he please stand so they can could take him to a woman who was in physical trouble.
Immediately 67 people stood up.
“Which of you is a heart doctor?”
They all remained standing. They were headed to a convention for cardiac surgeons.
And now they were ready and willing to effectively diagnose and prescribe what was necessary to help her. They had the knowledge and the desire to help her and all she needed to do was let them help.
Which, of course, she was more than ready to do.
Friends, our Lord, our Creator knows us and love us and stands ready to help us when we have heart problems, when our hearts have grown hard and unresponsive and soul problems when the pulse beat is unsteady and uncertain.
Through his word and the presence of the Holy Spirit He offers corrective treatment through repentance and redemption.
He certainly has the knowledge of who we are and what we need.
And He has the desire…what other proof do we need than that He sent His son to earth.
And you, you may be a good father or mother, a devoted husband or wife, an honest business-person.
For these things you should be commended and I am sure, heaven smiles on your diligence.
However, the bottom line is, are you committed to Christ? …An enthusiastic follower of a savior called Jesus.
Ready and willing to accept the help in your daily living He stands ready to give.
Call it what you will, but the life of a committed Christian shouts through thick and thin, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, dear Lord, I am yours.
“As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God…” reads the Gospel of John. Become sons of God?
Why not?
It is just as natural to be a son of God as it is to be a son of the devil. I believe that. It is just as natural to say No to sin as it is to say Yes to sin. I believe that.
And yes, I believe there are deep reserves of holy grandeur in every single human being because ere now and then a punk does fall to his knees to pray.
Ere now and then a bad man does make a decision to be a good man in Christ.
Ere now and then a man or woman confronts their mortality with decision that affects their immortality beyond their wildest dreams and a miraculous transformation does take place as a wanton, weary sinner says, “No more, Lord, no more.” I’m tired of a life made less because I have been following a life of false mores.”
And, oh yes, back to the woman on the plane having a heart attack.
She did avail herself of their help but then she could have changed her mind and said
"You know, I may be over reacting.
It isn’t that bad.
I don’t need any help. I can handle it on my own.
I’ll deal with it later.
People do that with their lives and God’s offer to help.
And they say.
You know, I may be over reacting to my sins and my need to commit to Christ and handle the sickness of sin.
It isn’t that bad.
I don’t need any help. I can handle it on my own.
I’ll deal with it later.
People do that with their lives and God’s offer to help.
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROW’S (WED) BLOG entitled TRANSFORMED OR CONFORMED
“Remember that the greatest danger to freedom is freedom itself.”
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A new series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 WEEK SERIES/EACH SUNDAY)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series)
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as fact what was obviously a lie.
We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
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This is a true story…
A woman was on an overseas flight and began to have terrible pains in the center of her chest. She pushed the button to summon the flight attendant and told her she thought she was having a heart attack.
The announcement was made over the sound system that if a doctor was on board would he please stand so they can could take him to a woman who was in physical trouble.
Immediately 67 people stood up.
“Which of you is a heart doctor?”
They all remained standing. They were headed to a convention for cardiac surgeons.
And now they were ready and willing to effectively diagnose and prescribe what was necessary to help her. They had the knowledge and the desire to help her and all she needed to do was let them help.
Which, of course, she was more than ready to do.
Friends, our Lord, our Creator knows us and love us and stands ready to help us when we have heart problems, when our hearts have grown hard and unresponsive and soul problems when the pulse beat is unsteady and uncertain.
Through his word and the presence of the Holy Spirit He offers corrective treatment through repentance and redemption.
He certainly has the knowledge of who we are and what we need.
And He has the desire…what other proof do we need than that He sent His son to earth.
And you, you may be a good father or mother, a devoted husband or wife, an honest business-person.
For these things you should be commended and I am sure, heaven smiles on your diligence.
However, the bottom line is, are you committed to Christ? …An enthusiastic follower of a savior called Jesus.
Ready and willing to accept the help in your daily living He stands ready to give.
Call it what you will, but the life of a committed Christian shouts through thick and thin, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, dear Lord, I am yours.
“As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God…” reads the Gospel of John. Become sons of God?
Why not?
It is just as natural to be a son of God as it is to be a son of the devil. I believe that. It is just as natural to say No to sin as it is to say Yes to sin. I believe that.
And yes, I believe there are deep reserves of holy grandeur in every single human being because ere now and then a punk does fall to his knees to pray.
Ere now and then a bad man does make a decision to be a good man in Christ.
Ere now and then a man or woman confronts their mortality with decision that affects their immortality beyond their wildest dreams and a miraculous transformation does take place as a wanton, weary sinner says, “No more, Lord, no more.” I’m tired of a life made less because I have been following a life of false mores.”
And, oh yes, back to the woman on the plane having a heart attack.
She did avail herself of their help but then she could have changed her mind and said
"You know, I may be over reacting.
It isn’t that bad.
I don’t need any help. I can handle it on my own.
I’ll deal with it later.
People do that with their lives and God’s offer to help.
And they say.
You know, I may be over reacting to my sins and my need to commit to Christ and handle the sickness of sin.
It isn’t that bad.
I don’t need any help. I can handle it on my own.
I’ll deal with it later.
People do that with their lives and God’s offer to help.
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROW’S (WED) BLOG entitled TRANSFORMED OR CONFORMED
“Remember that the greatest danger to freedom is freedom itself.”
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A new series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 WEEK SERIES/EACH SUNDAY)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series)
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as fact what was obviously a lie.
We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
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Monday, December 27, 2010
PUT A TWINKLE IN IT
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The young man had been a terrible accident. He had broken both legs, received a severe cut to his forehead that had caused him to lose a great deal of blood and had lost his left eye as well.
As they wheeled him into the operating room he looked up at the doctor and said, “Hey doc, when you put in my new eye be sure you put one in with a twinkle in it.”
And then there is the story of the great violinist who om the middle of a very important concert had his A string break. He never missed a beat. He just transposed the music and played on with what he had left.
I guess it just says what we all know to be true but do have trouble applying.
When life gives a stink weed when we were planning on harvesting a rose we just need to pray up rather than cave in.
Just transpose and play with what we have left.
Just bring a twinkle attitude to a positive insight.
Combine “thank you prayers” with your “God, help me prayers.” Bringing up those blessings that you have or have had makes it easier to live with problems that at the moment are immediate.
Pray for patience. Pray for patience?
Yes…because learning how to deal with problems doesn’t come overnight. It takes praying patiently and growing stronger slowly and believing that God can and will make you better able 10 years from now to handle what today you know needs improvement.
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROW’S (TUESDAY) ONE A DAY BLOG ENTITLED “CHOOSE YE THIS DAY”
“Yes, I believe there are deep reserves of holy grandeur in every single human being because ere now and then a punk does fall to his knees to pray.
Ere now and then a bad man does make a decision to be a good man in Christ. Ere now and then a man or woman confronts their mortality with decision that affects their immortality beyond their wildest dreams and a miraculous transformation does take place as a wanton, weary sinner says, “No more, Lord, no more.”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)
click on URL below to go to Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010
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…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity.
Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as fact what was obviously a lie. We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
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The young man had been a terrible accident. He had broken both legs, received a severe cut to his forehead that had caused him to lose a great deal of blood and had lost his left eye as well.
As they wheeled him into the operating room he looked up at the doctor and said, “Hey doc, when you put in my new eye be sure you put one in with a twinkle in it.”
And then there is the story of the great violinist who om the middle of a very important concert had his A string break. He never missed a beat. He just transposed the music and played on with what he had left.
I guess it just says what we all know to be true but do have trouble applying.
When life gives a stink weed when we were planning on harvesting a rose we just need to pray up rather than cave in.
Just transpose and play with what we have left.
Just bring a twinkle attitude to a positive insight.
Combine “thank you prayers” with your “God, help me prayers.” Bringing up those blessings that you have or have had makes it easier to live with problems that at the moment are immediate.
Pray for patience. Pray for patience?
Yes…because learning how to deal with problems doesn’t come overnight. It takes praying patiently and growing stronger slowly and believing that God can and will make you better able 10 years from now to handle what today you know needs improvement.
Give time a chance. Spiritual, emotional and mental maturity do happen...just keep showing up at the throne of grace with a persistent prayer life and you will be one more who met God each morning and He walked with you in a special way the rest of the day.
Yes...Believe in the lesson taught that when a tree is cut down from that stump can grow a sprout.
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROW’S (TUESDAY) ONE A DAY BLOG ENTITLED “CHOOSE YE THIS DAY”
“Yes, I believe there are deep reserves of holy grandeur in every single human being because ere now and then a punk does fall to his knees to pray.
Ere now and then a bad man does make a decision to be a good man in Christ. Ere now and then a man or woman confronts their mortality with decision that affects their immortality beyond their wildest dreams and a miraculous transformation does take place as a wanton, weary sinner says, “No more, Lord, no more.”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)
click on URL below to go to Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010
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…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity.
Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as fact what was obviously a lie. We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
PARENTING, Good, Bad or Indifferent?
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Two little boys were walking home from Sunday School and the first little boy said,”What do you think of this Devil business our teacher was talking about this morning?”
“Oh,” came back the reply, “it’s like Santa Claus. It’s either your mom or your dad.”
Humor has a way of putting an edge to truth...
I worked with Youth in our Presbytery until I was 45.
I think it helped me as Senior pastor at Palmetto Presbyterian because you can learn so much from what they are saying and how they are reacting to this world in which they have not been for that long a time.
For yes, I can still remember more than one young person when speaking of their parents who said, “I don’t respect them.” “They don’t treat me fairly and I’m not saying I don’t do some things wrong and more than I should but if they are in a bad mood, no matter what I do I find I’m in trouble.: “I can’t wait to grow up so I can leave.”
I heard many young people praise their parents as well. “Mom loves me and shows it. She listens to my opinions and even though she doesn’t always agree with them I know she has listened.”
“Dad is busy but never too busy to give more time than I sometimes know he really can’t afford to give.” “I’m so proud of my parents.”
What makes a good parent?
A husband who loves his wife and shows it. And the son seeing it is learning and is more apt to become the same.
A wife who loves her husband and shows it.
A good parent does less correcting and more connecting.
A good parent is firm but flexible enough to listen.
A good parent is more concerned with building their child’s self esteem than a new addition to the house.
And then there is the priceless quote from a Hodding Carter, Jr “There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.”
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Proverbs 22:6
”Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
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BELOW are QUOTES FROM THE Rust on my Soul Serialization (each Tuesday)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“I want to do more than just live. I want to be alive. I want to sometimes stand on that mountaintop. I want a song in my heart that makes my own personal Hit Parade.
I want contentment that is more than satisfied nerve endings. I want to feel the stretch of eternity in my bones.
This may indeed be more than I will ever find, but “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROW’S ONE A DAY BLOG entitled PUT A TWINKLE IN IT
“Believe in the lesson taught that when a tree is cut down… from that stump can grow a sprout.”
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Two little boys were walking home from Sunday School and the first little boy said,”What do you think of this Devil business our teacher was talking about this morning?”
“Oh,” came back the reply, “it’s like Santa Claus. It’s either your mom or your dad.”
Humor has a way of putting an edge to truth...
I worked with Youth in our Presbytery until I was 45.
I think it helped me as Senior pastor at Palmetto Presbyterian because you can learn so much from what they are saying and how they are reacting to this world in which they have not been for that long a time.
For yes, I can still remember more than one young person when speaking of their parents who said, “I don’t respect them.” “They don’t treat me fairly and I’m not saying I don’t do some things wrong and more than I should but if they are in a bad mood, no matter what I do I find I’m in trouble.: “I can’t wait to grow up so I can leave.”
I heard many young people praise their parents as well. “Mom loves me and shows it. She listens to my opinions and even though she doesn’t always agree with them I know she has listened.”
“Dad is busy but never too busy to give more time than I sometimes know he really can’t afford to give.” “I’m so proud of my parents.”
What makes a good parent?
A husband who loves his wife and shows it. And the son seeing it is learning and is more apt to become the same.
A wife who loves her husband and shows it.
A good parent does less correcting and more connecting.
A good parent is firm but flexible enough to listen.
A good parent is more concerned with building their child’s self esteem than a new addition to the house.
And then there is the priceless quote from a Hodding Carter, Jr “There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.”
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Proverbs 22:6
”Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
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BELOW are QUOTES FROM THE Rust on my Soul Serialization (each Tuesday)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“I want to do more than just live. I want to be alive. I want to sometimes stand on that mountaintop. I want a song in my heart that makes my own personal Hit Parade.
I want contentment that is more than satisfied nerve endings. I want to feel the stretch of eternity in my bones.
This may indeed be more than I will ever find, but “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROW’S ONE A DAY BLOG entitled PUT A TWINKLE IN IT
“Believe in the lesson taught that when a tree is cut down… from that stump can grow a sprout.”
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
I AM CHRISTMAS
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I am Christmas.
I am the wide eyes of a child at break of Christmas Day.
I am the somber look of an old man’s memory.
I am the holy look of Christ’s worshipers in prayer.
I am the glad, great cry of the carolers in the winter night.
I am Christmas. I have looked on the first star of Bethlehem. I saw, on the first Christmas Eve, three wise men. I felt the presence of shepherds in their awe. I perceived the Christ child in his crib.
I am Christmas. I have gathered many symbols around about me.
I have my fir tree from Germany. I have my yuletide from Jol in Iceland. I have my jolly old Saint Nick from the Land of the dikes. I have mistletoe from Celtic Britain. I have America’s own particular gift of commercialization.
I have the story of the Nativity from that book so close to men of all nations.
I am Christmas. I am the rustle of the wrappings from asunder on Christmas morn. I m the whistle of the toy train trembling on the tracks. I am the cry of the doll so real it almost talks. I am the family arm-in-arm, in transit from friend to friend.
I am Christmas.
There is no other like me; though you search the world up every river, round every bend. I offer an abundance of love and good cheer.
I break the back of hostilities for a spell. Even battlefields have become quiet for a time. And bullets have been traded briefly for the spirit of brotherhood.
I am the hope of the world caught up in one special day. I am the promise of something good in men let loose in a 24 hour period.
I am Christmas.
I am the miracle of a changing Scrooge.
I am the memory of a snowy village twinkling in the night. I m mercy with a “Merry Christmas” on my lips and a gift in my hand.
I am Christmas. And to each of you as I hold close the holy memory of what this day is all about…to you I shout out my merry greeting…and a smile appears on my soul as I pray for you and others in our Christian brotherhood…that reality that makes us one…our Savior Christ.
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BELOW are QUOTES FROM THE Rust on my Soul Serialization (each Tuesday)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“I want to do more than just live. I want to be alive. I want to sometimes stand on that mountaintop. I want a song in my heart that makes my own personal Hit Parade.
I want contentment that is more than satisfied nerve endings. I want to feel the stretch of eternity in my bones.
This may indeed be more than I will ever find, but “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM tomorrow’s ONE A DAY entitled PARENTING
“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.”
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I am Christmas.
I am the wide eyes of a child at break of Christmas Day.
I am the somber look of an old man’s memory.
I am the holy look of Christ’s worshipers in prayer.
I am the glad, great cry of the carolers in the winter night.
I am Christmas. I have looked on the first star of Bethlehem. I saw, on the first Christmas Eve, three wise men. I felt the presence of shepherds in their awe. I perceived the Christ child in his crib.
I am Christmas. I have gathered many symbols around about me.
I have my fir tree from Germany. I have my yuletide from Jol in Iceland. I have my jolly old Saint Nick from the Land of the dikes. I have mistletoe from Celtic Britain. I have America’s own particular gift of commercialization.
I have the story of the Nativity from that book so close to men of all nations.
I am Christmas. I am the rustle of the wrappings from asunder on Christmas morn. I m the whistle of the toy train trembling on the tracks. I am the cry of the doll so real it almost talks. I am the family arm-in-arm, in transit from friend to friend.
I am Christmas.
There is no other like me; though you search the world up every river, round every bend. I offer an abundance of love and good cheer.
I break the back of hostilities for a spell. Even battlefields have become quiet for a time. And bullets have been traded briefly for the spirit of brotherhood.
I am the hope of the world caught up in one special day. I am the promise of something good in men let loose in a 24 hour period.
I am Christmas.
I am the miracle of a changing Scrooge.
I am the memory of a snowy village twinkling in the night. I m mercy with a “Merry Christmas” on my lips and a gift in my hand.
I am Christmas. And to each of you as I hold close the holy memory of what this day is all about…to you I shout out my merry greeting…and a smile appears on my soul as I pray for you and others in our Christian brotherhood…that reality that makes us one…our Savior Christ.
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BELOW are QUOTES FROM THE Rust on my Soul Serialization (each Tuesday)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“I want to do more than just live. I want to be alive. I want to sometimes stand on that mountaintop. I want a song in my heart that makes my own personal Hit Parade.
I want contentment that is more than satisfied nerve endings. I want to feel the stretch of eternity in my bones.
This may indeed be more than I will ever find, but “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM tomorrow’s ONE A DAY entitled PARENTING
“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.”
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Friday, December 24, 2010
CHRISTMAS TREES ALONG THE TRENCHES
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It was World War I and German were on one side and American, French and English on the other.
It was Christmas Eve and rather than celebrating the Prince of Peace Christians on both sides held bayonets in hand ready to go forth in battle.
On the German side Christmas trees were lined five feet apart the complete length of all the trenches.
The whole tabloid was ironic to say the least.
When the time came for a new battle to start neither side moved.
Then a beautiful operatic voice broke through the night singing “Stille Nachte.” One of the German soldier had brought his opera wife to the front.
Gradually, voices from both sides began to mingle in the darkness as Silent Night was sung in all the different languages.
Then one soldier embolden by it all picked up a tree and stepped out into No Man’s land carrying one of the trees, it’s candle wavering in the faint evening breeze.
And then another soldier arose from a trench carrying another Christmas tree.
In a short time the light from the trees and the song were filling the night with a different kind of light.
It was a cease fire that the officers acknowledged though there was nothing official about it.
Now the soldiers were talking, those who were bilingual translating for those who were not.
They began sharing pictures of their families and talking about their homes.
When finally they returned to their trenches…nothing was the same.
They could no longer fight in the same way.
They began to tip each other off when an air raid was to take place so each could take cover.
And both sides began finding shelter and safety in each others bunkers.
It got so bad or good depending on how one wishes to describe it…that all the battalions were broken up and the soldiers individually sent to other units.
For these soldiers now had a completely different attitude toward each other…
And as I first read this story and now relate it…I got to thinking…that…
… on this Christmas eve night there are families who are in the trenches harboring hurt feelings and lingering feuds and… oh…if both sides…where there are sides would come out of the trenches…and wear forgiveness on their sleeves and take the chips off their shoulders…and tomorrow on Christmas Day give the gift of love…and say “I am sorry”…and the apologies accepted…
And for those of us for whom there are no family feuds or whatever one chooses to call them…thanks be to God in His heavens.
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“I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another.” (John 13: 34)
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROW’S ONE A DAY blog entitled I AM CHRISTMAS
“I am Christmas. I am the wide eyes of a child at break of Christmas Day. I am the somber look of an old man’s memory. I am the holy look of Christ’s worshipers in prayer. I am the glad, great cry of the carolers in the winter night.
I am Christmas. I have looked on the first star of Bethlehem. I saw, on the first Christmas Eve, three wise men. I felt the presence of shepherds in their awe. I perceived the Christ child in his crib.
I am Christmas. I have gathered many symbols around about me. I have my fir tree from Germany. I have my yuletide from Jol in Iceland. I have…”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)
It begins Sunday Dec 26, 2010
click on URL below to go to Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago.
Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as fact what was obviously a lie.
We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
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It was World War I and German were on one side and American, French and English on the other.
It was Christmas Eve and rather than celebrating the Prince of Peace Christians on both sides held bayonets in hand ready to go forth in battle.
On the German side Christmas trees were lined five feet apart the complete length of all the trenches.
The whole tabloid was ironic to say the least.
When the time came for a new battle to start neither side moved.
Then a beautiful operatic voice broke through the night singing “Stille Nachte.” One of the German soldier had brought his opera wife to the front.
Gradually, voices from both sides began to mingle in the darkness as Silent Night was sung in all the different languages.
Then one soldier embolden by it all picked up a tree and stepped out into No Man’s land carrying one of the trees, it’s candle wavering in the faint evening breeze.
And then another soldier arose from a trench carrying another Christmas tree.
In a short time the light from the trees and the song were filling the night with a different kind of light.
It was a cease fire that the officers acknowledged though there was nothing official about it.
Now the soldiers were talking, those who were bilingual translating for those who were not.
They began sharing pictures of their families and talking about their homes.
When finally they returned to their trenches…nothing was the same.
They could no longer fight in the same way.
They began to tip each other off when an air raid was to take place so each could take cover.
And both sides began finding shelter and safety in each others bunkers.
It got so bad or good depending on how one wishes to describe it…that all the battalions were broken up and the soldiers individually sent to other units.
For these soldiers now had a completely different attitude toward each other…
And as I first read this story and now relate it…I got to thinking…that…
… on this Christmas eve night there are families who are in the trenches harboring hurt feelings and lingering feuds and… oh…if both sides…where there are sides would come out of the trenches…and wear forgiveness on their sleeves and take the chips off their shoulders…and tomorrow on Christmas Day give the gift of love…and say “I am sorry”…and the apologies accepted…
And for those of us for whom there are no family feuds or whatever one chooses to call them…thanks be to God in His heavens.
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“I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another.” (John 13: 34)
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROW’S ONE A DAY blog entitled I AM CHRISTMAS
“I am Christmas. I am the wide eyes of a child at break of Christmas Day. I am the somber look of an old man’s memory. I am the holy look of Christ’s worshipers in prayer. I am the glad, great cry of the carolers in the winter night.
I am Christmas. I have looked on the first star of Bethlehem. I saw, on the first Christmas Eve, three wise men. I felt the presence of shepherds in their awe. I perceived the Christ child in his crib.
I am Christmas. I have gathered many symbols around about me. I have my fir tree from Germany. I have my yuletide from Jol in Iceland. I have…”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)
It begins Sunday Dec 26, 2010
click on URL below to go to Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago.
Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as fact what was obviously a lie.
We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
WHAT WORDS HAVE YOU BEEN WEARING RECENTLY?
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I got to thinking the other day and though the thought certainly isn’t original it seems it is certainly worth visiting for a few moments.
You know…we are described not only by what people see but by what they hear.
“What are you doing home so early from choir practice?” the husband asked his wife.
“Oh,” she replied, “The organist and the choir director got in a terrible argument about how to sing “Love Divine” so we quit for the night.”
This business of words making fools of all of us at one time or the other is nothing new. It was a long time ago when Aesop made up one of his famous fables to make the point.
Once upon a time, (he scratched with his ancient writing instrument) a donkey found a lion's skin.
He tried it on, strutted around, and frightened many animals.
Soon a fox came along, and the donkey tried to scare him, too.
But the fox, hearing the donkey's voice, said, "If you want to terrify me, you'll have to disguise your bray." Aesop's moral: Clothes may disguise a fool, but his words will give him away.
Remember some of the words you never spoke are better off that way.
Fact is…if you dine on words you should never have spoken you will not be avoiding a great deal of indigestion for others as well as yourself. So throw away in the garbage can those thoughts that should never be given life.
And,oh yes “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
And, I hope you are the object of statements such as...“Oh, yes, I know them…they are always saying nice things about people.”
And certainly not the object of statements such as “That’s that person who does nothing but complain people…one at a time and constantly” or “oh yes, he’s the one who is always putting his (her) foot in his (her) mouth. Bad case of foot in mouth disease…that one.”
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But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. –Jesus Christ (Matthew 12:36-38)
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A Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog CHRISTMAS TREES ALONG THE TRENCHES
It was World War I and German Christians were on one side and American, French and English Christians on the other.
It was Christmas eve and rather than celebrating the Prince of Peace Christians on both sides held bayonets in hand ready to go forth in battle.
On the German side Christmas trees were lined five feet apart the complete length of all the trenches.
The whole tabloid was ironic to say the least.
When the time came for a new battle to start neither side moved.
Then a beautiful operatic voice broke through the night singing “Stille Nachte.”
One of the German soldier had brought his opera wife to the front.
Gradually, voices from both sides began to mingle in the darkness as Silent Night was sung in all the different languages.
Then one soldier embolden by it all picked up a tree and stepped out into No Man’s land carrying one of the trees, it’s candle wavering in the faint evening breeze.
And then…
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BELOW are QUOTES FROM THE Rust on my Soul Serialization (each Tuesday)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“I want to do more than just live. I want to be alive. I want to sometimes stand on that mountaintop. I want a song in my heart that makes my own personal Hit Parade.
I want contentment that is more than satisfied nerve endings. I want to feel the stretch of eternity in my bones.
This may indeed be more than I will ever find, but “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”
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I got to thinking the other day and though the thought certainly isn’t original it seems it is certainly worth visiting for a few moments.
You know…we are described not only by what people see but by what they hear.
“What are you doing home so early from choir practice?” the husband asked his wife.
“Oh,” she replied, “The organist and the choir director got in a terrible argument about how to sing “Love Divine” so we quit for the night.”
This business of words making fools of all of us at one time or the other is nothing new. It was a long time ago when Aesop made up one of his famous fables to make the point.
Once upon a time, (he scratched with his ancient writing instrument) a donkey found a lion's skin.
He tried it on, strutted around, and frightened many animals.
Soon a fox came along, and the donkey tried to scare him, too.
But the fox, hearing the donkey's voice, said, "If you want to terrify me, you'll have to disguise your bray." Aesop's moral: Clothes may disguise a fool, but his words will give him away.
Remember some of the words you never spoke are better off that way.
Fact is…if you dine on words you should never have spoken you will not be avoiding a great deal of indigestion for others as well as yourself. So throw away in the garbage can those thoughts that should never be given life.
And,oh yes “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
And, I hope you are the object of statements such as...“Oh, yes, I know them…they are always saying nice things about people.”
And certainly not the object of statements such as “That’s that person who does nothing but complain people…one at a time and constantly” or “oh yes, he’s the one who is always putting his (her) foot in his (her) mouth. Bad case of foot in mouth disease…that one.”
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But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. –Jesus Christ (Matthew 12:36-38)
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A Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog CHRISTMAS TREES ALONG THE TRENCHES
It was World War I and German Christians were on one side and American, French and English Christians on the other.
It was Christmas eve and rather than celebrating the Prince of Peace Christians on both sides held bayonets in hand ready to go forth in battle.
On the German side Christmas trees were lined five feet apart the complete length of all the trenches.
The whole tabloid was ironic to say the least.
When the time came for a new battle to start neither side moved.
Then a beautiful operatic voice broke through the night singing “Stille Nachte.”
One of the German soldier had brought his opera wife to the front.
Gradually, voices from both sides began to mingle in the darkness as Silent Night was sung in all the different languages.
Then one soldier embolden by it all picked up a tree and stepped out into No Man’s land carrying one of the trees, it’s candle wavering in the faint evening breeze.
And then…
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BELOW are QUOTES FROM THE Rust on my Soul Serialization (each Tuesday)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“I want to do more than just live. I want to be alive. I want to sometimes stand on that mountaintop. I want a song in my heart that makes my own personal Hit Parade.
I want contentment that is more than satisfied nerve endings. I want to feel the stretch of eternity in my bones.
This may indeed be more than I will ever find, but “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
GOOD THOUGHTS OR GOOD EXCUSES?
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In John Bunyan’s immortal book “Pilgrim’s Progress” Ignorance, walking by the side of the elderly Pilgrim has this to say, “My heart is good as any man’s heart…as to my thoughts, I take no notice of them.”
And then, Francis Bacon, another of my favorite authors answers this inane statement exactly as it should be answered, “Tell me what the young people are thinking, and I’ll tell you the outlook for the next generation.”
It has been a long time since I have seen snow work its magic.
Covering the beautiful and the ugly until the eye cannot tell the difference.
But still…the difference is there.
So it is with you and me.
And we need to make what lies beneath the snow or the excuses or the personal cover-ups subject to a spiritual improvement program.
And grow better rather than grow better excuses.
For sometimes when we try to excuse ourselves we are actually accusing ourselves.
Or as the old Yiddish proverb goes, “When you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
A man the other day said to me, “Why do I make excuses?”
And he answered his own question, “Because it is easier than changing.”
And then I replied, “If you make an excuse for stepping on my toes I will most likely excuse you but it will not stop my toes from hurting.”
So…the call to all of us is…make a life…improve our thoughts…pray persistent prayers that take foolish excuses and send them not so merrily on their way.
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“Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your path.” Proverbs 3:5-6
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS one a day entitled WHAT WORDS HAVE YOU BEEN WEARING RECENTLY?
“Aesop, the ancient storyteller, told this fable: Once upon a time, a donkey walking aalong a trail found a lion's skin hanging from a tree.
He tried it on, strutted around, and found it frightened many animals.
Soon a fox came along, and the donkey tried to scare him, too.
But the fox, hearing the donkey's voice, said, "If you want to terrify me, you'll have to disguise your bray."
Aesop's moral: Clothes may disguise a fool, but his words will give him away.”
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In John Bunyan’s immortal book “Pilgrim’s Progress” Ignorance, walking by the side of the elderly Pilgrim has this to say, “My heart is good as any man’s heart…as to my thoughts, I take no notice of them.”
And then, Francis Bacon, another of my favorite authors answers this inane statement exactly as it should be answered, “Tell me what the young people are thinking, and I’ll tell you the outlook for the next generation.”
It has been a long time since I have seen snow work its magic.
Covering the beautiful and the ugly until the eye cannot tell the difference.
But still…the difference is there.
So it is with you and me.
And we need to make what lies beneath the snow or the excuses or the personal cover-ups subject to a spiritual improvement program.
And grow better rather than grow better excuses.
For sometimes when we try to excuse ourselves we are actually accusing ourselves.
Or as the old Yiddish proverb goes, “When you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
A man the other day said to me, “Why do I make excuses?”
And he answered his own question, “Because it is easier than changing.”
And then I replied, “If you make an excuse for stepping on my toes I will most likely excuse you but it will not stop my toes from hurting.”
So…the call to all of us is…make a life…improve our thoughts…pray persistent prayers that take foolish excuses and send them not so merrily on their way.
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“Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your path.” Proverbs 3:5-6
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS one a day entitled WHAT WORDS HAVE YOU BEEN WEARING RECENTLY?
“Aesop, the ancient storyteller, told this fable: Once upon a time, a donkey walking aalong a trail found a lion's skin hanging from a tree.
He tried it on, strutted around, and found it frightened many animals.
Soon a fox came along, and the donkey tried to scare him, too.
But the fox, hearing the donkey's voice, said, "If you want to terrify me, you'll have to disguise your bray."
Aesop's moral: Clothes may disguise a fool, but his words will give him away.”
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
INTERVENTION OR MANIPULATION
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I was talking with a ministerial friend and he said to me, “Things are going well at my church but I’m not completely sure why.”
And I replied, “That’s good. For if you could know completely why it might not be so much God’s intervention as man’s manipulation.”
Maria Fedorovna, the empress of Russia and wife of Czar Alexander III, was known for her philanthropy and compassionate heart.
Indeed, she once saved a prisoner from exile in Siberia by transposing a single comma in a warrant signed by Alexander.
The czar had written: "Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia."
After Maria’s intervention, the note read: ’Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia."
The prisoner was eventually released.
Compassion begins a lot of places, in grammar and lots of places...one never knows...one just has to be aware and act.
And we can do that, put a pause where it is needed so we think through or pray through a decision.
And change a life…change our own lives…change a dozen lives in a domino effect.
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I was talking with a ministerial friend and he said to me, “Things are going well at my church but I’m not completely sure why.”
And I replied, “That’s good. For if you could know completely why it might not be so much God’s intervention as man’s manipulation.”
Maria Fedorovna, the empress of Russia and wife of Czar Alexander III, was known for her philanthropy and compassionate heart.
Indeed, she once saved a prisoner from exile in Siberia by transposing a single comma in a warrant signed by Alexander.
The czar had written: "Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia."
After Maria’s intervention, the note read: ’Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia."
The prisoner was eventually released.
Compassion begins a lot of places, in grammar and lots of places...one never knows...one just has to be aware and act.
And we can do that, put a pause where it is needed so we think through or pray through a decision.
And change a life…change our own lives…change a dozen lives in a domino effect.
Proverbs 3:5 – “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
There is always the warnings we must give ourselves…
to never be too impressed with our own solutions…
to never stop praying “Thy will be done…”…
to pray “If I am wrong help in this matter to fail”…
to not look at any degree or honor hanging on a wall and think that makes the keeper of all wisdom…
To keep alive and well an ongoing acceptance of the sovereignty of Almighty God…
to be patient enough to give God’s word time to work its way through our ear to our brain and to our actions…
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Therefore “Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him…( Psalms 37:7 )
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So … Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.” (Psalms 147)
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And do not forget… “For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s. (Romans 14:8)
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG on these One A Days entitled GOOD THOUGHTS OR GOOD EXCUSES?
“Sometimes when we try to excuse ourselves we are actually accusing ourselves.
Or as the old Yiddish proverb goes, “When you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)
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It begins Sunday Dec 26, 2010
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as
fact what was obviously a lie. We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
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Monday, December 20, 2010
CHRISTMAS, WHAT IS THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL?
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Some interesting statistics!
There are currently 78 people named S. Claus living in the USA, and one Kriss Kringle.
Did you know that the weight of Santa's sleigh loaded with one Beanie Baby for every kid on earth is 333,333 tons.
And I'm sure you remember that the number of reindeer required to pull that 333,333 ton sleigh: 214,206, including Rudolph is nine. Don't know how Santa accomplishes it but then...
To deliver his gifts in one night, Santa has to make 822.6 visits per second, sleighing at 3,000 times the speed of sound.
At that speed, Santa and his reindeer should burst into flames instantaneously but so far they never have.
When Christmas morning arrives the average child will open 18 presents.
Of the presents received, one in 10 will be broken by the New Year, only 40% will make it to March and just a quarter will be intact by next Xmas.
In total around 46 million of kids toys, will be thrown away worldwide.
So yes when it comes to gifts…it is a good and gracious thoght to consider the gift of Christ, eternal and its nature and to be nurtured every day and certainly not thrown away…
of such is the true meaning of Christmas and the love of God so greatly and gloriously shown.
And yes God makes even the speed of sound seem slow when it comes to the miracle of his creation.
for an eternal, omnipresence, omniscient God takes the word “Gift” and gives it a meaning beyond compare.
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AND WHEN IT COMES TO A CHRISTMAS GIFT
"Whom have I in heaven but You?
And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You.
My flesh and my heart fail;
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." Psalm 73:25-26
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS One A Day BLOG ON ONE A DAY entitled INTERVENTION OR MANIPULATION
“I was talking with a ministerial friend and he said to me, “Things are going well at my church but I’m not completely sure why.”
And I replied, “That’s good. For if you could know completely why... it might not be so much God’s intervention as man’s manipulation.” *************************************
AND ON WYRICK'S WRITINGS THE FOLLOWING
A new series on PRAYER began
ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 WEEK SERIES/EACH SUNDAY)
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series)
It begins Sunday Dec 26, 2010
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time.
It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as fact what was obviously a lie.
We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because.
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BELOW are QUOTES FROM THE Rust on my Soul Serialization (each Tuesday)
“I want to do more than just live. I want to be alive. I want to sometimes stand on that mountaintop. I want a song in my heart that makes my own personal Hit Parade.
I want contentment that is more than satisfied nerve endings. I want to feel the stretch of eternity in my bones.
This may indeed be more than I will ever find, but “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES entitled ANGER IS A KILLER. It begins Thursday January 6, 2010.
“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies?
No?
Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.
Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”
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CHRISTMAS, WHAT IS THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL
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Some interesting statistics!
There are currently 78 people named S. Claus living in the USA, and one Kriss Kringle.
Did you know that the weight of Santa's sleigh loaded with one Beanie Baby for every kid on earth is 333,333 tons.
And I'm sure you remember that the number of reindeer required to pull that 333,333 ton sleigh: 214,206, including Rudolph is nine. Don't know how Santa accomplishes it but then...
To deliver his gifts in one night, Santa has to make 822.6 visits per second, sleighing at 3,000 times the speed of sound.
At that speed, Santa and his reindeer should burst into flames instantaneously but so far they never have.
When Christmas morning arrives the average child will open 18 presents.
Of the presents received, one in 10 will be broken by the New Year, only 40% will make it to March and just a quarter will be intact by next Xmas.
In total around 46 million of kids toys, will be thrown away worldwide.
So yes when it comes to gifts…it is a good and gracious thoght to consider the gift of Christ, eternal and its nature and to be nurtured every day and certainly not thrown away…
of such is the true meaning of Christmas and the love of God so greatly and gloriously shown.
And yes God makes even the speed of sound seem slow when it comes to the miracle of his creation.
for an eternal, omnipresence, omniscient God takes the word “Gift” and gives it a meaning beyond compare.
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AND WHEN IT COMES TO A CHRISTMAS GIFT
"Whom have I in heaven but You?
And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You.
My flesh and my heart fail;
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." Psalm 73:25-26
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS One A Day BLOG ON ONE A DAY entitled INTERVENTION OR MANIPULATION
“I was talking with a ministerial friend and he said to me, “Things are going well at my church but I’m not completely sure why.”
And I replied, “That’s good. For if you could know completely why... it might not be so much God’s intervention as man’s manipulation.” *************************************
AND ON WYRICK'S WRITINGS THE FOLLOWING
A new series on PRAYER began
ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 WEEK SERIES/EACH SUNDAY)
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series)
It begins Sunday Dec 26, 2010
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time.
It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as fact what was obviously a lie.
We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because.
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BELOW are QUOTES FROM THE Rust on my Soul Serialization (each Tuesday)
“I want to do more than just live. I want to be alive. I want to sometimes stand on that mountaintop. I want a song in my heart that makes my own personal Hit Parade.
I want contentment that is more than satisfied nerve endings. I want to feel the stretch of eternity in my bones.
This may indeed be more than I will ever find, but “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES entitled ANGER IS A KILLER. It begins Thursday January 6, 2010.
“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies?
No?
Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.
Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”
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CHRISTMAS, WHAT IS THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL
Sunday, December 19, 2010
IF YOU ARE NOT THE GREATEST, WHO IS? And you know the answer…
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A little boy walked out into the backyard wearing his baseball cap and carrying a ball and bat. "I'm the greatest hitter in the world," he said. Then he tossed the ball into the air, swung at it, and missed. "Strike One!" he yelled.
He picked up the ball and said again, "I'm the greatest hitter in the world!" Again, he tossed the ball into the air, and again he swung at it and missed. "Strike Two!" he cried.
The boy looked at his bat and ball, straightened his cap and said again, "I'm the greatest hitter in the world!" A third time he tossed the ball up in the air and swung at it. He missed again. "Strike Three!"
The little boy picked up the ball, looked at it, and cried out in a loud voice, "I'm the greatest pitcher in the world!"
There was a man named John, John the Baptist to be exact…and everyone was more than willing to assign to him greatness.
There was no doubt he was very popular or that people would travel miles to hear him speak…but when people began to think that he might be the prophesied Savior ...
He did say “I’m NOT the greatest.” Indeed, he embraced clarity and set things straight.
“I am not the Savior. I am not Elijah or one of the prophets come back from the dead.” He said it every way he knew how.
He kept assuring everyone that he was just a man who had come to tell them about the coming Christ. “The one who is coming…why, I’m not even worthy to unbuckle his sandals,” he said.
Greatness. We get delusions of grandeur sometimes and when we do it behooves us to think of what true greatness is…and to think long and hard and deep on the greatness of Jesus, the Son of God.
And to give thanks for His coming, humbly on our knees.
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SCRIPTURE: “He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.” John 1:27.
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled CHRISTMAS, WHAT IS THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL?
“To deliver his gifts in one night, Santa would have to make 822.6 visits per second, sleighing at 3,000 times the speed of sound.”
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A new series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 WEEK SERIES/EACH SUNDAY)
To read a Serialization of his International published Novel “RUST ON MY SOUL” visit this site each Tuesday.
Now on Thursday and Sunday he is covering a variety of subjects.
Posted on Wyrick’s Writings
Thursday December 16th
“GOD’S FRUITSTAND”
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A little boy walked out into the backyard wearing his baseball cap and carrying a ball and bat. "I'm the greatest hitter in the world," he said. Then he tossed the ball into the air, swung at it, and missed. "Strike One!" he yelled.
He picked up the ball and said again, "I'm the greatest hitter in the world!" Again, he tossed the ball into the air, and again he swung at it and missed. "Strike Two!" he cried.
The boy looked at his bat and ball, straightened his cap and said again, "I'm the greatest hitter in the world!" A third time he tossed the ball up in the air and swung at it. He missed again. "Strike Three!"
The little boy picked up the ball, looked at it, and cried out in a loud voice, "I'm the greatest pitcher in the world!"
There was a man named John, John the Baptist to be exact…and everyone was more than willing to assign to him greatness.
There was no doubt he was very popular or that people would travel miles to hear him speak…but when people began to think that he might be the prophesied Savior ...
He did say “I’m NOT the greatest.” Indeed, he embraced clarity and set things straight.
“I am not the Savior. I am not Elijah or one of the prophets come back from the dead.” He said it every way he knew how.
He kept assuring everyone that he was just a man who had come to tell them about the coming Christ. “The one who is coming…why, I’m not even worthy to unbuckle his sandals,” he said.
Greatness. We get delusions of grandeur sometimes and when we do it behooves us to think of what true greatness is…and to think long and hard and deep on the greatness of Jesus, the Son of God.
And to give thanks for His coming, humbly on our knees.
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SCRIPTURE: “He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.” John 1:27.
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled CHRISTMAS, WHAT IS THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL?
“To deliver his gifts in one night, Santa would have to make 822.6 visits per second, sleighing at 3,000 times the speed of sound.”
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A new series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 WEEK SERIES/EACH SUNDAY)
To read a Serialization of his International published Novel “RUST ON MY SOUL” visit this site each Tuesday.
Now on Thursday and Sunday he is covering a variety of subjects.
Posted on Wyrick’s Writings
Thursday December 16th
“GOD’S FRUITSTAND”
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Saturday, December 18, 2010
THAT WAS QUITE A CIRCUS?
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He was a little boy who had never seen a circus and the very word sent thrills circulating throughout his tiny body.
“Daddy, will you give me a dollar so I can go see the circus?” It was a long time ago; a time when television and video games and others of like kin and kind had not yet entered technological minds let alone come to fruition.
“Certainly, my son if you will get all your chores done.”
“I have already finished them daddy,” came back the reply and soon thereafter the dollar bill changed hands.
The little boy headed into town at just under the speed of light and was so excited his feet hardly touched the ground.
Since he arrived in town so early he found a front row spot to watch the parade.
And here they came; ponderous elephants who shook the very ground, long necked giraffes and a lion in a cage who actually roared when he was no more than a few feet away.
As the ringmaster passed by the little boy rushed out, thrust the dollar in his hand and said, “Thanks mister. That was a great circus.”
Then he turned around and walked back home. He never realized what he had missed. He thought he had seen the circus but he had only seen the parade.
There is so much our faith has to offer when we meet it with a heart on fire and show up at the right places at the right time with the right attitude.
And the knowledge of the Lord that comes when we seek is so great, and the gospels speak with such authority and grace when we open those holy pages and walk with the Master…and it is good…not because I say so from having walked with Jesus but because millions seek and millions find and the lights in heaven burn eternally bright.
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.
Proverbs 3:5-6
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled IF YOU ARE NOT THE GREATEST, WHO IS? And you know the answer…
To read a Serialization of his International published Novel “RUST ON MY SOUL” visit this site each Tuesday.
Now on Thursday and Sunday he is covering a variety of subjects.
Posted on Wyrick’s Writings
Thursday December 16th
“GOD’S FRUITSTAND”
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He was a little boy who had never seen a circus and the very word sent thrills circulating throughout his tiny body.
“Daddy, will you give me a dollar so I can go see the circus?” It was a long time ago; a time when television and video games and others of like kin and kind had not yet entered technological minds let alone come to fruition.
“Certainly, my son if you will get all your chores done.”
“I have already finished them daddy,” came back the reply and soon thereafter the dollar bill changed hands.
The little boy headed into town at just under the speed of light and was so excited his feet hardly touched the ground.
Since he arrived in town so early he found a front row spot to watch the parade.
And here they came; ponderous elephants who shook the very ground, long necked giraffes and a lion in a cage who actually roared when he was no more than a few feet away.
As the ringmaster passed by the little boy rushed out, thrust the dollar in his hand and said, “Thanks mister. That was a great circus.”
Then he turned around and walked back home. He never realized what he had missed. He thought he had seen the circus but he had only seen the parade.
There is so much our faith has to offer when we meet it with a heart on fire and show up at the right places at the right time with the right attitude.
And the knowledge of the Lord that comes when we seek is so great, and the gospels speak with such authority and grace when we open those holy pages and walk with the Master…and it is good…not because I say so from having walked with Jesus but because millions seek and millions find and the lights in heaven burn eternally bright.
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.
Proverbs 3:5-6
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled IF YOU ARE NOT THE GREATEST, WHO IS? And you know the answer…
Having struck out twice before, for A third time he tossed the ball up in the air and swung at it. He missed again. "Strike Three!"
The little boy picked up the ball, looked at it, and cried out in a loud voice, "I'm the greatest pitcher in the world!"
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To read a Serialization of his International published Novel “RUST ON MY SOUL” visit this site each Tuesday.
Now on Thursday and Sunday he is covering a variety of subjects.
Posted on Wyrick’s Writings
Thursday December 16th
“GOD’S FRUITSTAND”
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Friday, December 17, 2010
AN EXAMPLE (2ND IN BRIEF SERIES)
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I talk a lot. We preachers do that…but I have a prayer I often pray, “Lord, help me to be a lamp and to learn the lesson from it that a lamp may not talk but it certainly does shine.”
One thing about which I am most sure…I would not want to be someone who one day started pulling stars down from out the sky.
For yes, I want to be a child of God…and by so doing be a child of the light.
I want to be like a light bulb in a room when it is turned on…I want to try to fill in every corner with just a little bit of light and soften every shadow that I am not able to eliminate.
And yes…I want the same for you.
I want us together in this old world that is sometimes filled with darkness to stand in front of a mirror and have our light doubled.
I want us to love our Lord in such a way it gives us courage to speak out against all the evil darkness we come in contact with…and sing and put to action this “little light of ours”…for we may never move a mountain…but we can arrange, perhaps, a little bit of a hill.
At the Last Supper, Jesus said, “I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.”
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled THAT WAS QUITE A CIRCUS?
. “He never realized what he had missed. He thought he had seen the circus but he had only seen the parade.”
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A new series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 WEEK SERIES/EACH SUNDAY)
To read a Serialization of his International published Novel “RUST ON MY SOUL” visit this site each Tuesday.
Now on Thursday and Sunday he is covering a variety of subjects.
Posted on Wyrick’s Writings
Thursday December 16th
“GOD’S FRUITSTAND”
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http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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I talk a lot. We preachers do that…but I have a prayer I often pray, “Lord, help me to be a lamp and to learn the lesson from it that a lamp may not talk but it certainly does shine.”
One thing about which I am most sure…I would not want to be someone who one day started pulling stars down from out the sky.
For yes, I want to be a child of God…and by so doing be a child of the light.
I want to be like a light bulb in a room when it is turned on…I want to try to fill in every corner with just a little bit of light and soften every shadow that I am not able to eliminate.
And yes…I want the same for you.
I want us together in this old world that is sometimes filled with darkness to stand in front of a mirror and have our light doubled.
I want us to love our Lord in such a way it gives us courage to speak out against all the evil darkness we come in contact with…and sing and put to action this “little light of ours”…for we may never move a mountain…but we can arrange, perhaps, a little bit of a hill.
At the Last Supper, Jesus said, “I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.”
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled THAT WAS QUITE A CIRCUS?
. “He never realized what he had missed. He thought he had seen the circus but he had only seen the parade.”
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A new series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 WEEK SERIES/EACH SUNDAY)
To read a Serialization of his International published Novel “RUST ON MY SOUL” visit this site each Tuesday.
Now on Thursday and Sunday he is covering a variety of subjects.
Posted on Wyrick’s Writings
Thursday December 16th
“GOD’S FRUITSTAND”
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
BY EXAMPLE (1st in brief series)
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A father said to his college age son as was preparing to go to college, “Son, remember this, remember who you are.”
And yes, I say to you and me, “Remember who you are, a child of God."
Remember we must chose whether we will set good examples or follow bad ones.
And yes…live your life so you are a good example to follow than a warning sign to be avoided.
And working through some papers in our safe I came across my will made out many years ago…and I thought that besides material things…how important it is I leave golden memory examples.
And then there is the story of the man who was walking out the door with a seed catalog and headed toward his garden.
“What are you doing” asked his wife.
“I’m going to show it to my tomatoes.”
And, YES, a good example grows and a bad example grows…and one is a flower and the other is a weed…and one is a tomato that didn’t pay any attention to a catalog that was shown it.
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Philippians 4:13 “For I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength.”
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled AN EXAMPLE (2nd in brief series)
“I would not want to be someone who one day started pulling stars down from out the sky.”
“We may never move a mountain…but we can arrange, perhaps, a little bit of a hill.”
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A series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 WEEK SERIES/EACH SUNDAY)
To read a Serialization of his International published Novel “RUST ON MY SOUL” visit this site each Tuesday.
Now on Thursday and Sunday he is covering a variety of other subjects.
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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A father said to his college age son as was preparing to go to college, “Son, remember this, remember who you are.”
And yes, I say to you and me, “Remember who you are, a child of God."
Remember we must chose whether we will set good examples or follow bad ones.
And yes…live your life so you are a good example to follow than a warning sign to be avoided.
And working through some papers in our safe I came across my will made out many years ago…and I thought that besides material things…how important it is I leave golden memory examples.
And then there is the story of the man who was walking out the door with a seed catalog and headed toward his garden.
“What are you doing” asked his wife.
“I’m going to show it to my tomatoes.”
And, YES, a good example grows and a bad example grows…and one is a flower and the other is a weed…and one is a tomato that didn’t pay any attention to a catalog that was shown it.
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Philippians 4:13 “For I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength.”
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled AN EXAMPLE (2nd in brief series)
“I would not want to be someone who one day started pulling stars down from out the sky.”
“We may never move a mountain…but we can arrange, perhaps, a little bit of a hill.”
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A series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 WEEK SERIES/EACH SUNDAY)
To read a Serialization of his International published Novel “RUST ON MY SOUL” visit this site each Tuesday.
Now on Thursday and Sunday he is covering a variety of other subjects.
Posted on Wyrick's Writings Thursday December 16th "God Fruitstand."
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
A FOUR STEP PROGRAM TO BETTERMENT OR A NO STEP PROGRAM TO…(2ND IN BRIEF SERIES)
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Some years ago, two men delivered in turn two addreses to a large British University.
The first man was Benjamin Disraeli.
He said, “If you would succeed, know the temper and spirit of the times in which you live and act accordingly.”
The second man William Gladstone had quite a different message, “Do not drift with the age. Have fixed principles and stand by them.”
The backbone or a jelly fish. There is a difference now isn’t there.
It may be easier being a sheep that is being sheared than an Eagle flying in the rough and dangerous exposed rocks of a mountain top but…
And I remember a long time ago as I grew older and joined civilization…I must decide who and what will control my mind…
...and why, if at all, I will let them…and I fell to my knees and I prayed “Not my will dear Lord…but thine.” And may you have prayed the prayer as well.
And I prayed also…and will you pray this prayer with me too…”Lord, do not let me follow the loudest voice or the greatest repetitions. Rather let me in quiet meditation listen to the soft but solid teaching of my Lord.”
And I thought of the old Chinese Proverb “One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. “
And I prayed yet another prayer, “Let me not bark up the wrong tree.”
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1 Peter 1:14
“As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance…”
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled BY EXAMPLE
“live your life so you are a good example to follow rather than a warning sign to be avoided.”
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A new series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 in this series)
To read a Serialization of his International published Novel “RUST ON MY SOUL” visit this site each Tuesday.
On Thursday and Sunday he covers a variety of subjects.
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE
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Some years ago, two men delivered in turn two addreses to a large British University.
The first man was Benjamin Disraeli.
He said, “If you would succeed, know the temper and spirit of the times in which you live and act accordingly.”
The second man William Gladstone had quite a different message, “Do not drift with the age. Have fixed principles and stand by them.”
The backbone or a jelly fish. There is a difference now isn’t there.
It may be easier being a sheep that is being sheared than an Eagle flying in the rough and dangerous exposed rocks of a mountain top but…
And I remember a long time ago as I grew older and joined civilization…I must decide who and what will control my mind…
...and why, if at all, I will let them…and I fell to my knees and I prayed “Not my will dear Lord…but thine.” And may you have prayed the prayer as well.
And I prayed also…and will you pray this prayer with me too…”Lord, do not let me follow the loudest voice or the greatest repetitions. Rather let me in quiet meditation listen to the soft but solid teaching of my Lord.”
And I thought of the old Chinese Proverb “One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. “
And I prayed yet another prayer, “Let me not bark up the wrong tree.”
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1 Peter 1:14
“As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance…”
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled BY EXAMPLE
“live your life so you are a good example to follow rather than a warning sign to be avoided.”
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A new series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 in this series)
To read a Serialization of his International published Novel “RUST ON MY SOUL” visit this site each Tuesday.
On Thursday and Sunday he covers a variety of subjects.
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
A FOUR STEP PROGRAM TO BETTERMENT OR A NO STEP PROGRAM TO…(1ST IN BRIEF SERIES)
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Life has taught me lots of lessons and I try to pay attention to them.
I share now with you four things I believe we all should seek to learn and apply to the adventure called life.
1. We can run from it and by so doing let fear shrivel our days and take a great deal of luster from our memories.
2. We can run with the pack and think with the herd and having become a mirror never have an original idea or intent of our own.
3. We can submit ourselves to certain disciplines that we have decided are the right and not willful way to go…and we can be the better for it…for the undisciplined life is a giant sadness that sends a giant shadow to cover all our days.
4.We can give ourselves to some cause, some person and certainly to our Lord…and by such dedication strengthen the backbone of our soul.
Conforming to the world rather than trying to reform it may seem easier and in a sense it is but at what a price.
“Don’t think you’re on the right road just because it is a well worn path.” It was a rough hewn sign in a farmer’s front yard that I passed many years ago and I have never forgotten it.
We don’t change for the better because living with worst is sometimes easier. We’re more comfortable with old ways of being rather than new solutions.
Did you ever stop to think that one of the outstanding examples of a conformist is a cow standing in the middle of a field chewing his cud. ..along with all the other cows...and the other cows....and the other...
So to you and me I say, do not be a non conformists just for the sake of being different…but if being different can make a better world and we know it and do nothing about it…we have bowed before the altar of mediocrity and submitted to a type of tyranny.
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“Be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (Romans 12:2)
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled A FOUR STEP PROGRAM TO BETTERMENT OR A NO STEP PROGRAM TO… (2nd in brief series)
“It may be easier being a sheep that is being sheared than an Eagle flying in the rough and dangerous exposed rocks of a mountain top but…”
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A new series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st
To read a Serialization of his International published Novel “RUST ON MY SOUL” visit this site each Tuesday. (On Wyrick's Writings)
On Thursday he covers a variety of subjects.
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE
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Life has taught me lots of lessons and I try to pay attention to them.
I share now with you four things I believe we all should seek to learn and apply to the adventure called life.
1. We can run from it and by so doing let fear shrivel our days and take a great deal of luster from our memories.
2. We can run with the pack and think with the herd and having become a mirror never have an original idea or intent of our own.
3. We can submit ourselves to certain disciplines that we have decided are the right and not willful way to go…and we can be the better for it…for the undisciplined life is a giant sadness that sends a giant shadow to cover all our days.
4.We can give ourselves to some cause, some person and certainly to our Lord…and by such dedication strengthen the backbone of our soul.
Conforming to the world rather than trying to reform it may seem easier and in a sense it is but at what a price.
“Don’t think you’re on the right road just because it is a well worn path.” It was a rough hewn sign in a farmer’s front yard that I passed many years ago and I have never forgotten it.
We don’t change for the better because living with worst is sometimes easier. We’re more comfortable with old ways of being rather than new solutions.
Did you ever stop to think that one of the outstanding examples of a conformist is a cow standing in the middle of a field chewing his cud. ..along with all the other cows...and the other cows....and the other...
So to you and me I say, do not be a non conformists just for the sake of being different…but if being different can make a better world and we know it and do nothing about it…we have bowed before the altar of mediocrity and submitted to a type of tyranny.
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“Be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (Romans 12:2)
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled A FOUR STEP PROGRAM TO BETTERMENT OR A NO STEP PROGRAM TO… (2nd in brief series)
“It may be easier being a sheep that is being sheared than an Eagle flying in the rough and dangerous exposed rocks of a mountain top but…”
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A new series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st
To read a Serialization of his International published Novel “RUST ON MY SOUL” visit this site each Tuesday. (On Wyrick's Writings)
On Thursday he covers a variety of subjects.
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Monday, December 13, 2010
THE CHURCH ON FIRE
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Two men were standing outside a church watching flames devour the once beautiful structure.
One man turned to the other and said, ”This is the first time I ever saw you at church.”
“This is the first time I ever saw the church on fire,” came back the reply.
When we are not alive for something or someone we are not alive.
I know that I pray for you my readers that you will not have outlived the joy and productivity of enthusiasm and that if you have you will seek and find it once again.
How? Well like laughing when you do not feel like laughing makes you feel better…so acting enthusiastic when you don’t feel enthusiastic does the same.
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Colossians 3:23
‘Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men…’
2 Corinthians 5:17
17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
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Go to Neil's other blog WYRICK'S WRITINGS. Posted Sunday December 12th some thoughts on CONFUSION.
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Two men were standing outside a church watching flames devour the once beautiful structure.
One man turned to the other and said, ”This is the first time I ever saw you at church.”
“This is the first time I ever saw the church on fire,” came back the reply.
When we are not alive for something or someone we are not alive.
I know that I pray for you my readers that you will not have outlived the joy and productivity of enthusiasm and that if you have you will seek and find it once again.
How? Well like laughing when you do not feel like laughing makes you feel better…so acting enthusiastic when you don’t feel enthusiastic does the same.
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Colossians 3:23
‘Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men…’
2 Corinthians 5:17
17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
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Go to Neil's other blog WYRICK'S WRITINGS. Posted Sunday December 12th some thoughts on CONFUSION.
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com
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