CAN YOU TAKE FAILURE OR DOES IT TAKE YOU?

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Serialization of Neil’s Internationally Distributed Novel (Rust On My Soul) (Published by Bridge Press(1985) starts on his blog Wyrick’s Writings Tuesday April 13th and continues each Tuesday until finished. Thursday and Sunday will continue to cover a variety of subjects.

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Henry Ford forgot to put a reverse gear in his first car, but not in his second.

Edison once spent $2 million dollars on an invention that never did work out, but as he said, “I got $2 million dollars worth of experience.”

Most unhappy people are those who have never learned how to take failure. They know what they want, but they haven’t gotten it and they can’t take the big NO! Someone, or something, knocked them down, so they stayed down.

“Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.”

That’s an old quote and a great truth. No one ever gets all they want when they want it.

Indeed, sometimes what we want we’ll never have. Maybe we need it – maybe we don’t, but what we do need is a state of mind, heart, and soul that doesn’t give up every time we don’t get our own way.

I don’t have everything I want, but neither do I know everything I need. So, the best thing I can do is pray, “Lord, when my wish is not wise, temper me for Your will.”

You see, I’ve learned that often it is not always my wish that needs tempering, it is me.

It is my soul, my personality, my total being that needs the strength and peace of acceptance.

I may keep my dreams ‘til the day I die and never have them fulfilled, but without them, I am dead.

Therefore, somehow, by the grace of God, I have to learn how to live with victory and defeat, health and sickness, love and hate, peace and war, faith and doubt.

Somehow my happiness must be deeper than what I have.

Somehow it must flow from what I am, and the I AM be happiness-prone.

That is why the prayer, “Lord, when my wish is not wise, temper me for Your will” must be my prayer, and yours.

“…I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8:38-39).

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March 13 A MASTERPIECE OR A MESS?
March 9 DO YOU COURT DIVINE MADNESS?
March 7 WHAT IS A PRAYER FENCE?
Jan 20 THE LOUD SOUND OF SILENCE
Jan 12 WHAT IS SO DIFFERENT ABOUT STARS?
Dec 10 TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND PUNT
Dec 3 GOD HAD A DREAM
Nov 11 LIFE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF FOREVER,
Nov 4…AN UNEXPECTED HIGHWAY TO SUCCESS
Nov 1 …ARE YOU SNIFF AND SNUFF OR HEM AND HAW

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