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I have played a number of musical instruments, the cello being one of them. Therefore the following story caught my attention.
It is about a violinist who’s A string broke in the middle of a concert and how he never missed a note, just transposed and kept on playing with the strings he had left.
And I thought to myself…this is life. Sometimes it takes from us we thought or think we cannot do without and if we learn how to adjust we find we can get along quite fine. (My left arm that never has functioned quite as well since my hang gliding action) It taught me adaptability.
Sometimes life disappoints us and I think of my failures and what they have taught me and how I am the better for it.
Sometimes it frustrates us…I wanted so badly to win Cross Country races but the very best I ever did was come in 49th in a Tri State race. It taught be adaptability.
Sometimes life confuses rather than amuses…and whatever it is…we are so much better off if we transpose and keep on living life with what we have left.
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“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of a sound mind.” 2 Tim 1:7
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick's Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
COST…NO CONSIDERATION
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During the Second World War there appeared an ad in the paper which read as follows, “Wanted, a tricycle. Cost no consideration.
Steel was short but little boy’s hearts still thumped and beat for toys…and in this particular case a tricycle.
And, yes, that is what our gospel says in effect, “WANTED, A HUMAN SOUL. COST; NO CONSIDEATION. NOT EVEN THE CROSS.”
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Heb 4:16 “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
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During the Second World War there appeared an ad in the paper which read as follows, “Wanted, a tricycle. Cost no consideration.
Steel was short but little boy’s hearts still thumped and beat for toys…and in this particular case a tricycle.
And, yes, that is what our gospel says in effect, “WANTED, A HUMAN SOUL. COST; NO CONSIDEATION. NOT EVEN THE CROSS.”
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Heb 4:16 “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday ON WYRICK'S WRITING'S there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
IT IS ONE THING TO FAIL AND YET ANOTHER TO BE CONTENT WITH YOUR FAILURES…
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It was large totally consuming fire and when it had finished there was nothing left. The manufacturing facilities of Thomas Edison lay in ruins.
The next morning walking through the charred embers the 67 year old inventor did not sag and even think of quitting.
He simply said with his usual resolve, “Well, now we have been blessed. All of our mistakes have been burned up. Now we can start anew.
What is success? Well, first we have succeeded by simply being here. By being born with life, this gift of God and that is a pretty good beginning.
And having said that we have yet another success…for we have all endured failures and turned some of them into successes…or learned from them when there never was a success in sight.
And along the way, hopefully, each of us soon learned of our God and our Savior and how we are never alone whether we are shouting hallelujahs or weeping .
And slowly if we allow it…we learn to number success in how many good deeds we do rather than how many golden coins we collect…and by how many unforgivable hurts we forgive…and how many we do not judge even if some of them are busy judging us… and thankful for a spigot out of which flows clear clean water in a world where for so many this would be a miracle…because for them it has never happened.
And all the happenings and the variety of it all…and our great God with us to the very end and beyond.
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“I am humble under God’s powerful hand so He will lift me up when the right time comes. I give all my worries to Him, because He cares about me.” 1st Peter 5:6-7
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
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It was large totally consuming fire and when it had finished there was nothing left. The manufacturing facilities of Thomas Edison lay in ruins.
The next morning walking through the charred embers the 67 year old inventor did not sag and even think of quitting.
He simply said with his usual resolve, “Well, now we have been blessed. All of our mistakes have been burned up. Now we can start anew.
What is success? Well, first we have succeeded by simply being here. By being born with life, this gift of God and that is a pretty good beginning.
And having said that we have yet another success…for we have all endured failures and turned some of them into successes…or learned from them when there never was a success in sight.
And along the way, hopefully, each of us soon learned of our God and our Savior and how we are never alone whether we are shouting hallelujahs or weeping .
And slowly if we allow it…we learn to number success in how many good deeds we do rather than how many golden coins we collect…and by how many unforgivable hurts we forgive…and how many we do not judge even if some of them are busy judging us… and thankful for a spigot out of which flows clear clean water in a world where for so many this would be a miracle…because for them it has never happened.
And all the happenings and the variety of it all…and our great God with us to the very end and beyond.
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“I am humble under God’s powerful hand so He will lift me up when the right time comes. I give all my worries to Him, because He cares about me.” 1st Peter 5:6-7
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Monday, September 27, 2010
MORE ON MAKING THE MOST OF WHAT WE HAVE
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A famous coach of over half a century ago, Bob Zuppke, never passed judgment on a new player until he had seen how the fellow reacted to being hit hard.
One year at Illinois, a handsome 198 pound blonde Adonis with a great rep-school reputation came out for the team, and the coaches rubbed their hands in glee.
“He’ll tear the Big Ten apart,” they anticipated. But all Zuppke said was, “Wait, just let’s see what happens when he gets hit.”
The Adonis made a beautiful downfield running catch of a punt over his shoulder and raced down the field, weaving and dodging skillfully.
At mid-field he was brought down hard from behind.
A couple of plays later as he about to be tackled in mid-field he slowed down.
The next time he was close to the sidelines and he ran out of bounds.
Zuppke watched him all afternoon and when asked by the coaches where to put him, without hesitation Zuppke replied, “Third team, he has the gift to the best but he isn’t giving his all. He isn’t even giving half of his all.”
To give ones all is to bring about monumental changes and many folk are not sure they want to make even minimal changes in their lives.
But that is what victory is all about…running rather than just walking the extra mile…extending a moral code to enthusiastic action…speaking the truth rather than monitoring it and perhaps then muting it…running the race of life all out…with the goal firm and clear and coming closer all the time.
In this world we either discipline ourselves or we are disciplined by the world.
And yes…some are ruled by a sense of indifference.
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1 Corinthians 9:24-27
“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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A new thought or story is added each day
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A famous coach of over half a century ago, Bob Zuppke, never passed judgment on a new player until he had seen how the fellow reacted to being hit hard.
One year at Illinois, a handsome 198 pound blonde Adonis with a great rep-school reputation came out for the team, and the coaches rubbed their hands in glee.
“He’ll tear the Big Ten apart,” they anticipated. But all Zuppke said was, “Wait, just let’s see what happens when he gets hit.”
The Adonis made a beautiful downfield running catch of a punt over his shoulder and raced down the field, weaving and dodging skillfully.
At mid-field he was brought down hard from behind.
A couple of plays later as he about to be tackled in mid-field he slowed down.
The next time he was close to the sidelines and he ran out of bounds.
Zuppke watched him all afternoon and when asked by the coaches where to put him, without hesitation Zuppke replied, “Third team, he has the gift to the best but he isn’t giving his all. He isn’t even giving half of his all.”
To give ones all is to bring about monumental changes and many folk are not sure they want to make even minimal changes in their lives.
But that is what victory is all about…running rather than just walking the extra mile…extending a moral code to enthusiastic action…speaking the truth rather than monitoring it and perhaps then muting it…running the race of life all out…with the goal firm and clear and coming closer all the time.
In this world we either discipline ourselves or we are disciplined by the world.
And yes…some are ruled by a sense of indifference.
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1 Corinthians 9:24-27
“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Sunday, September 26, 2010
PERSEVERE
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The backfield coach who only weighed 150pounds was jumping all over is 290 pound tackle and screaming, “If I had your physique, you big lazy good-for-nothing, I’d be heavyweight champion of the world.”
The 230 pound tackle just looked at him and replied, “What’s keeping you from becoming the middleweight champion?”
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"I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection
for which Christ Jesus first possessed me."
1 Thessalonians 4:11
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
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Each Tuesday there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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A new thought or story is added each day
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The backfield coach who only weighed 150pounds was jumping all over is 290 pound tackle and screaming, “If I had your physique, you big lazy good-for-nothing, I’d be heavyweight champion of the world.”
The 230 pound tackle just looked at him and replied, “What’s keeping you from becoming the middleweight champion?”
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"I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection
for which Christ Jesus first possessed me."
1 Thessalonians 4:11
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
MEMORIES
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There is an ancient Greek legend that speaks to life.
It is about the River Styx and the ferryman who carried passengers to the land of the departed souls.
One day as the legend tells it, a woman about to be ferried across the river is told by Charon, that is her privilege, by custom to drink of the waters of the river and forget everything that happened in the life before.
And she asks, “I drink of these waters, will I forget all my suffering?”
“Yes” replies Charon, “and you will forget all your joys.”
“And if I drink, will I forget all my failures,” And again she hears the answer, “Yes, and you will forget all your triumphs, “
“And will I forget all how much I have been hated?”
“Yes,” is the reply, “and you will forget how much you have been loved.”
“Then”, she says with a voice firm and a mind made up “I will not drink.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
Each Tuesday there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
A new thought or story is added each day
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There is an ancient Greek legend that speaks to life.
It is about the River Styx and the ferryman who carried passengers to the land of the departed souls.
One day as the legend tells it, a woman about to be ferried across the river is told by Charon, that is her privilege, by custom to drink of the waters of the river and forget everything that happened in the life before.
And she asks, “I drink of these waters, will I forget all my suffering?”
“Yes” replies Charon, “and you will forget all your joys.”
“And if I drink, will I forget all my failures,” And again she hears the answer, “Yes, and you will forget all your triumphs, “
“And will I forget all how much I have been hated?”
“Yes,” is the reply, “and you will forget how much you have been loved.”
“Then”, she says with a voice firm and a mind made up “I will not drink.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
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Each Tuesday there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
Friday, September 24, 2010
POKING HOLES IN THE DARKNESS
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It was back the days before electricity and the little boy was watching the old lamp lighter moving from pole to pole.
“What are you doing dear?” cried out his mother.
“I’m watching a man poke holes in the darkness,” came back his reply.
And Jesus said, “I am come as a light unto the world.”
Indeed. someone once put it this way, “When I found the Lord I aspired to higher things. I perspired for better things. I substituted the power of prayer for the shrug of a shoulder.”.
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“He leads me in the paths of righteousness [uprightness and right standing with Him--not for my earning it, but] for His name's sake.” Psalm 23: 3
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS began on Thursday September 16 and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished. Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
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It was back the days before electricity and the little boy was watching the old lamp lighter moving from pole to pole.
“What are you doing dear?” cried out his mother.
“I’m watching a man poke holes in the darkness,” came back his reply.
And Jesus said, “I am come as a light unto the world.”
Indeed. someone once put it this way, “When I found the Lord I aspired to higher things. I perspired for better things. I substituted the power of prayer for the shrug of a shoulder.”.
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“He leads me in the paths of righteousness [uprightness and right standing with Him--not for my earning it, but] for His name's sake.” Psalm 23: 3
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS began on Thursday September 16 and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished. Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
SHOULD YOU BE SMART ENOUGH TO WIGGLE OUT OF IT?
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In Tucson, Arizona, a Navajo silversmith creates fine jewelry while many of his competitors are content to market junk.
His prices are no higher but his self-contentment is.
He explains, “I tried cutting corners. It was making false money. It fooled other people but it didn’t fool me. I look at my bank book maybe once or twice a month. But I have to live with myself every day.”
There are those who live by the motto, “Morality is for those who aren’t smart enough to wiggle out of it.”
And that the peril of it.
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Matthew 7:12 “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”
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A new Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on Thursday September 16
2nd in Series on Sunday September 19th.
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
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In Tucson, Arizona, a Navajo silversmith creates fine jewelry while many of his competitors are content to market junk.
His prices are no higher but his self-contentment is.
He explains, “I tried cutting corners. It was making false money. It fooled other people but it didn’t fool me. I look at my bank book maybe once or twice a month. But I have to live with myself every day.”
There are those who live by the motto, “Morality is for those who aren’t smart enough to wiggle out of it.”
And that the peril of it.
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Matthew 7:12 “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”
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A new Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on Thursday September 16
2nd in Series on Sunday September 19th.
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
AIN’T WHAT THEY WAS
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After World War II, 5,500 American flagships were swathed in cocoons of grease and mothballed in shipping bone yards.
By September of 1966 135 had been resurrected for sailing to Viet Nam. Their repairs cost one billion two hundred thirty thousand 1966 dollars.
A Bethlehem Steel Corporation, shipbuilding executive described their condition “The preservative grease on the hull and superstructure had usually hardened and could be removed only by sandblasting or with chemicals.”
It was a tragic and sickening picture of their once proud maritime condition.
And as I remembered back to that time I could not help but think that this is what happens to a man when he denies his destiny. Gives up on his future. Mothballs his soul. Takes up residence in a spiritual bone yard.
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2Timothy 2:15 “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
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A NEW SERIES ON "Pain and Problems" began on Thursday Sept 16 and will continue EACH SUNDAY THEREAFTER TILL FINISHED. THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A SERIES ON Prayer
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After World War II, 5,500 American flagships were swathed in cocoons of grease and mothballed in shipping bone yards.
By September of 1966 135 had been resurrected for sailing to Viet Nam. Their repairs cost one billion two hundred thirty thousand 1966 dollars.
A Bethlehem Steel Corporation, shipbuilding executive described their condition “The preservative grease on the hull and superstructure had usually hardened and could be removed only by sandblasting or with chemicals.”
It was a tragic and sickening picture of their once proud maritime condition.
And as I remembered back to that time I could not help but think that this is what happens to a man when he denies his destiny. Gives up on his future. Mothballs his soul. Takes up residence in a spiritual bone yard.
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2Timothy 2:15 “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
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A NEW SERIES ON "Pain and Problems" began on Thursday Sept 16 and will continue EACH SUNDAY THEREAFTER TILL FINISHED. THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A SERIES ON Prayer
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
CAN YOU BE TRUSTED?
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Rufus Jones, one of the great preachers of many years ago, tells the following story on himself. He was just a lad.
His mother and his father were getting ready to be off to town and as they went out the front door, they said to him, “We want you to weed the turnip patch.”
He said that as he went out back and took one look at the turnip patch, for the first time in his life, he understood that biblical phrase, “Everlasting to everlasting.”
He never saw so many weeds. And just at that moment, two of his friends came by with fishing poles over their shoulder and they said, “Rufus, let’s go fishing” and he would much rather go fishing than weed any old day and they said “when we come back, we’ll help you”.
So they went fishing.
But that afternoon went like no afternoon ever went before, like somebody was chasing the time away and when they got back, those weeds weren’t weeded, and Mom and Dad were home and Rufus was in trouble.
And he said as he went in that house, his mother just took his fishing pole from him and said nothing.
Then as she turned to leave she looked at him and quite softly said, “Rufus, we trusted you and let us down. Our home is built on trust and you let us down.”
Then she walked out.
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Luke 16:10 - "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much." (NIV)
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A NEW SERIES ON PRAYER WILL BEGIN ON THIS COMING SUNDAY Sept 26 AND EACH SUNDAY THEREAFTER TILL FINISHED. THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A SERIES ON PAIN AND PROBLEMS.
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Rufus Jones, one of the great preachers of many years ago, tells the following story on himself. He was just a lad.
His mother and his father were getting ready to be off to town and as they went out the front door, they said to him, “We want you to weed the turnip patch.”
He said that as he went out back and took one look at the turnip patch, for the first time in his life, he understood that biblical phrase, “Everlasting to everlasting.”
He never saw so many weeds. And just at that moment, two of his friends came by with fishing poles over their shoulder and they said, “Rufus, let’s go fishing” and he would much rather go fishing than weed any old day and they said “when we come back, we’ll help you”.
So they went fishing.
But that afternoon went like no afternoon ever went before, like somebody was chasing the time away and when they got back, those weeds weren’t weeded, and Mom and Dad were home and Rufus was in trouble.
And he said as he went in that house, his mother just took his fishing pole from him and said nothing.
Then as she turned to leave she looked at him and quite softly said, “Rufus, we trusted you and let us down. Our home is built on trust and you let us down.”
Then she walked out.
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Luke 16:10 - "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much." (NIV)
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A NEW SERIES ON PRAYER WILL BEGIN ON THIS COMING SUNDAY Sept 26 AND EACH SUNDAY THEREAFTER TILL FINISHED. THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A SERIES ON PAIN AND PROBLEMS.
To read this NEW SERIES and a variety of OTHER topics on Thursdays
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
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Monday, September 20, 2010
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
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He was a young man and he had it all figured out. He had not come to his minister for advice but rather to point out his well laid plans.
With complete confidence in what he had learned from the past and what he now planned for the future he began, “I plan to go to the University and become an architect.”
“What then?” asked his minister?
“I plan to become not just an architect but a famous architect.”
“What then?” asked his minister?
“I plan to marry and have a great family.”
“What then?” asked his minister?
“I expect to become wealthy and retire.”
“What then?” asked his minister?
The young man paused and then responded, “I see what you mean. Well, of course, then I will make my peace with God.”
“Why not do that in the first place?” asked his minister.
Why not?
Why wait until one has one foot in the grave?
If one needs God when they are half dead, think what He could mean to one if when still whole and alive the quest was daily made?
Certainly when that last breath is nearer than ever before some get scared but what about when a whole life is ahead…why not be constantly innovated by this Father God.
Embrace the NOW rather than taking the time for God only a few minutes before there is not much Now left…for to do so is not only a cowardly act…it is a disappointing one. (rewrite of words by Gaston Foote)
John Quincy Adams was no longer a young man as he walked the street at no too steady a pace. Someone asked, “And how is John Quincy Adams this morning?”
And John replied, “John Quincy Adams himself is quite well thank you. But the house in which he lives at present is becoming dilapidated. It is tottering upon its foundation. Time and the season have nearly destroyed it. Its roof is pretty well worn out. Its walls are much shattered and it trembles with every wind. The old tenement is becoming almost uninhabitable and I think John Quincy Adams will have to move out of it soon. But he, himself is quite well, quite well.”
The ongoing faith of John Quincy Adams is well known to any and all historians.
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He was a young man and he had it all figured out. He had not come to his minister for advice but rather to point out his well laid plans.
With complete confidence in what he had learned from the past and what he now planned for the future he began, “I plan to go to the University and become an architect.”
“What then?” asked his minister?
“I plan to become not just an architect but a famous architect.”
“What then?” asked his minister?
“I plan to marry and have a great family.”
“What then?” asked his minister?
“I expect to become wealthy and retire.”
“What then?” asked his minister?
The young man paused and then responded, “I see what you mean. Well, of course, then I will make my peace with God.”
“Why not do that in the first place?” asked his minister.
Why not?
Why wait until one has one foot in the grave?
If one needs God when they are half dead, think what He could mean to one if when still whole and alive the quest was daily made?
Certainly when that last breath is nearer than ever before some get scared but what about when a whole life is ahead…why not be constantly innovated by this Father God.
Embrace the NOW rather than taking the time for God only a few minutes before there is not much Now left…for to do so is not only a cowardly act…it is a disappointing one. (rewrite of words by Gaston Foote)
John Quincy Adams was no longer a young man as he walked the street at no too steady a pace. Someone asked, “And how is John Quincy Adams this morning?”
And John replied, “John Quincy Adams himself is quite well thank you. But the house in which he lives at present is becoming dilapidated. It is tottering upon its foundation. Time and the season have nearly destroyed it. Its roof is pretty well worn out. Its walls are much shattered and it trembles with every wind. The old tenement is becoming almost uninhabitable and I think John Quincy Adams will have to move out of it soon. But he, himself is quite well, quite well.”
The ongoing faith of John Quincy Adams is well known to any and all historians.
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
ANGEL WINGS
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As the man of great serenity told it…he reminds us that it was not always so with him.
He told of how it was in the late 1920’s and he was a very young and very successful businessman, making money fast and spending it even faster, in love with himself for what a tremendous man he was.
And then came Black Friday and the depression and he lost everything.
And it was too much.
Too much drinking, easily became alcoholism and he went off by himself to a small beach cottage he still possessed to drink himself into oblivion.
While there, he decided the best thing he could do was to walk into the sea, swim out beyond the point of no return and drown.
So he, while the sky was angry red with the first rush of dawn, shakily made his way out the door, down to the beach and just at the water’s edge, he noticed something glittering in the sand.
He reached down, picked it up and held it gently in his hand. It was a fragile thing. He recalls how it seemed just the least pressure from his fingers would have crushed it, yet here it was, undamaged, perfect.
And then he realized he was asking himself a question, “How is it possible that this fragile piece of shell has withstood the pounding of the surf on this hard packed sand?”
And then it became quite clear.
It had done so by yielding to the frantic forces around it.
It had accepted the storm that had flung it there. It had accepted the stillness of the depths where it had had its beginning.
And then this man explains his serenity. He puts it this way…
“All at once I saw myself, battling against the inevitable, beating my fists against fate, when I should have been accepting with faith. I don’t know how long I stood there, but finally, when I turned away from the sea, I took the shell with me. I’ve had it ever since.”
And oh yes…all shells have names. The name of this particular shell is “ANGEL’S WINGS.”
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"The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?”
—Psalm 27:1
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As the man of great serenity told it…he reminds us that it was not always so with him.
He told of how it was in the late 1920’s and he was a very young and very successful businessman, making money fast and spending it even faster, in love with himself for what a tremendous man he was.
And then came Black Friday and the depression and he lost everything.
And it was too much.
Too much drinking, easily became alcoholism and he went off by himself to a small beach cottage he still possessed to drink himself into oblivion.
While there, he decided the best thing he could do was to walk into the sea, swim out beyond the point of no return and drown.
So he, while the sky was angry red with the first rush of dawn, shakily made his way out the door, down to the beach and just at the water’s edge, he noticed something glittering in the sand.
He reached down, picked it up and held it gently in his hand. It was a fragile thing. He recalls how it seemed just the least pressure from his fingers would have crushed it, yet here it was, undamaged, perfect.
And then he realized he was asking himself a question, “How is it possible that this fragile piece of shell has withstood the pounding of the surf on this hard packed sand?”
And then it became quite clear.
It had done so by yielding to the frantic forces around it.
It had accepted the storm that had flung it there. It had accepted the stillness of the depths where it had had its beginning.
And then this man explains his serenity. He puts it this way…
“All at once I saw myself, battling against the inevitable, beating my fists against fate, when I should have been accepting with faith. I don’t know how long I stood there, but finally, when I turned away from the sea, I took the shell with me. I’ve had it ever since.”
And oh yes…all shells have names. The name of this particular shell is “ANGEL’S WINGS.”
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"The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?”
—Psalm 27:1
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
EVERYBODY…THIS IS JIMMY
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This story is about a young man named Jimmy.
The minister who knew him tells it this way, “Jimmy was twenty-two though no bigger than a lad of fifteen. He could still work circles around the other men on the docks.
And Jimmy had something besides his wiry energy and strengty. He had soul, that special quality that makes a man hungry to feed the inner man.
Every day at noon, he’d go to our chapel and pray. When I got to know him better, I asked this rough young stevedore what he prayed.
He replied, “Well, pastor, I just bow my head and say ‘Jesus, this is Jimmy.” And then I just wait.”
Several days after I had spoken with him, I heard the siren of an ambulance and rushed to the docks to see who had been hurt.
It was Jimmy.
He’d fallen forty feet from some scaffolding and it had broken his neck.
As I looked down at his lifeless form I could almost envision Jimmy in heaven with Christ’s arm around his should…and looking at all the heavenly host gathered round…saying….”Everybody, this is Jimmy.”
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“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? “ John 14:1-2
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This story is about a young man named Jimmy.
The minister who knew him tells it this way, “Jimmy was twenty-two though no bigger than a lad of fifteen. He could still work circles around the other men on the docks.
And Jimmy had something besides his wiry energy and strengty. He had soul, that special quality that makes a man hungry to feed the inner man.
Every day at noon, he’d go to our chapel and pray. When I got to know him better, I asked this rough young stevedore what he prayed.
He replied, “Well, pastor, I just bow my head and say ‘Jesus, this is Jimmy.” And then I just wait.”
Several days after I had spoken with him, I heard the siren of an ambulance and rushed to the docks to see who had been hurt.
It was Jimmy.
He’d fallen forty feet from some scaffolding and it had broken his neck.
As I looked down at his lifeless form I could almost envision Jimmy in heaven with Christ’s arm around his should…and looking at all the heavenly host gathered round…saying….”Everybody, this is Jimmy.”
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“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? “ John 14:1-2
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Friday, September 17, 2010
COOPERATE WITH THE INEVITABLE
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Someone has suggested that anxiety is dealt a staggering blow when we learn to cooperate with the inevitable.”
We make plans to run a race and break a leg.
We make an appointment and our watch stops.
We go fishing and the only thing we catch is a bad cold from a thunderstorm.
The inevitable is certain even if it is not always kind and the soon we accept it the better.
In fact, I have a favorite prayer I pray when my personal miseries are running rampant, “Lord, if I cannot like it, let me learn from it. At least then it will not be a total waste of time. Amen.”
Members of A.A. have a prayer that echoes these sentiments, “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.’
When Sir Henry Fawcett was a young man of twenty-five, he was blinded in a hunting accident. He had just graduated from Cambridge University as one of its most brilliant students and the world seemed like an apple rip for the picking.
His own comments on the accident are as follows, “Before twenty seconds had passed, I decided that not even this would hinder me from achieving the highest for which I was intended.”
He went on to become a professor in Cambridge, was later elected to Parliament and finally was appointed Postmaster Genera of the whole of England.
This man of faith refused to use this incident to build a tower of fear.
He could have collected a dozen or so phobias. He didn’t.
He gave self pity the run around and perhaps this educated man quoted to himself word Longfellow once wrote, “Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.”
Or perhaps he remembered the words of Isaiah, “But the Lord GOD helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame.”
—Isaiah 50:7
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Someone has suggested that anxiety is dealt a staggering blow when we learn to cooperate with the inevitable.”
We make plans to run a race and break a leg.
We make an appointment and our watch stops.
We go fishing and the only thing we catch is a bad cold from a thunderstorm.
The inevitable is certain even if it is not always kind and the soon we accept it the better.
In fact, I have a favorite prayer I pray when my personal miseries are running rampant, “Lord, if I cannot like it, let me learn from it. At least then it will not be a total waste of time. Amen.”
Members of A.A. have a prayer that echoes these sentiments, “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.’
When Sir Henry Fawcett was a young man of twenty-five, he was blinded in a hunting accident. He had just graduated from Cambridge University as one of its most brilliant students and the world seemed like an apple rip for the picking.
His own comments on the accident are as follows, “Before twenty seconds had passed, I decided that not even this would hinder me from achieving the highest for which I was intended.”
He went on to become a professor in Cambridge, was later elected to Parliament and finally was appointed Postmaster Genera of the whole of England.
This man of faith refused to use this incident to build a tower of fear.
He could have collected a dozen or so phobias. He didn’t.
He gave self pity the run around and perhaps this educated man quoted to himself word Longfellow once wrote, “Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.”
Or perhaps he remembered the words of Isaiah, “But the Lord GOD helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame.”
—Isaiah 50:7
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
A PROGRESSIVE WORLD
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Almost half a century ago there was a man named Gene Neely who I shall never forget.
He was a member of an All American Football team, played a crack centerfield in baseball, shot in the low eighties in golf, was a master at tennis and all with one arm.
The point to be made is that he was not a thing pushed and pulled by God as a puppet, but an immortal soul with the power to give in or get up.
Only in a progressive world could this be true.
Only in a world that offers challenges can a Gene Neeley have the opportunity to accept them.
Only a progressive world could ready a man for the hereafter by helping him to face with courage the here now.
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“Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.”
~ Jude 1: 24-25
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Almost half a century ago there was a man named Gene Neely who I shall never forget.
He was a member of an All American Football team, played a crack centerfield in baseball, shot in the low eighties in golf, was a master at tennis and all with one arm.
The point to be made is that he was not a thing pushed and pulled by God as a puppet, but an immortal soul with the power to give in or get up.
Only in a progressive world could this be true.
Only in a world that offers challenges can a Gene Neeley have the opportunity to accept them.
Only a progressive world could ready a man for the hereafter by helping him to face with courage the here now.
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“Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.”
~ Jude 1: 24-25
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
IN GODS WAY AND TIME
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There is a story told about Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, and how he almost didn’t have the chance to perfect this means of communication.
For years he had worked on this use of electricity, putting all his energy and finances into its completion until both were drained dry.
The bill was introduced in Congress to underwrite further efforts that the country might have its use.
On the day the bill was introduced, Samuel Morse sat in the gallery all day long and through the evening, and late that night two senators came to him and told him that it looked pretty hopeless.
Samuel tells the story himself, he says, “I walked out into the streets of Washington with the work of a lifetime hanging in the balance, and repeated to myself something I had always believed and practiced, “I know from whence my help commeth, my help commeth from the Lord.”.
The next day he was informed his bill had been lumped with a number of others and had passed just before the midnight deadline.
And then there were those dark days in 1982 when my left arm hung limp and dead and paralyzed and I said to myself, “I know from whence my help commeth, my help commeth from the Lord.” And I prayed, “Lord, if I must live with a paralyzed arm for the rest of my life, then give me the strength to be able to do so and make the most of it.”
On September 16, 1982, two months to the day after my hang gliding accident I moved my little finger and by January 1983 I was back on the ski slopes.
Time and time again the Lord has sometimes answered “Yes” to my prayers and sometimes “No” and I cannot number the number of times the both “Yes” and “No” have in time proved the Lord is indeed wise enough to know the right answers …for yes “I know from whence my help commeth, my help commeth from the Lord.”
Was the arm completely healed? No, not completely, but I can type, play the piano, lift…and those weakened areas when I move my arm to certain places…well, God taught to be healed from having to be completely healed.
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There is a story told about Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, and how he almost didn’t have the chance to perfect this means of communication.
For years he had worked on this use of electricity, putting all his energy and finances into its completion until both were drained dry.
The bill was introduced in Congress to underwrite further efforts that the country might have its use.
On the day the bill was introduced, Samuel Morse sat in the gallery all day long and through the evening, and late that night two senators came to him and told him that it looked pretty hopeless.
Samuel tells the story himself, he says, “I walked out into the streets of Washington with the work of a lifetime hanging in the balance, and repeated to myself something I had always believed and practiced, “I know from whence my help commeth, my help commeth from the Lord.”.
The next day he was informed his bill had been lumped with a number of others and had passed just before the midnight deadline.
And then there were those dark days in 1982 when my left arm hung limp and dead and paralyzed and I said to myself, “I know from whence my help commeth, my help commeth from the Lord.” And I prayed, “Lord, if I must live with a paralyzed arm for the rest of my life, then give me the strength to be able to do so and make the most of it.”
On September 16, 1982, two months to the day after my hang gliding accident I moved my little finger and by January 1983 I was back on the ski slopes.
Time and time again the Lord has sometimes answered “Yes” to my prayers and sometimes “No” and I cannot number the number of times the both “Yes” and “No” have in time proved the Lord is indeed wise enough to know the right answers …for yes “I know from whence my help commeth, my help commeth from the Lord.”
Was the arm completely healed? No, not completely, but I can type, play the piano, lift…and those weakened areas when I move my arm to certain places…well, God taught to be healed from having to be completely healed.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN WORRYING ABOUT RECENTLY?
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Odds are that you have been worrying most about things you cannot do anything about. Statistics say we humans do this approximately 42% of the time.
Then, just to keep the worry system alive and well, you probably have worried 28% of your life away about decisions you made in the past and about which you can no longer do anything.
You are not alone in the above two foolish behavior mechanism but it still does not make such actions wisdom moments.
21% of your hours, days, weeks, months and years the personal worry machines of millions are hard at work worrying about serious illnesses that will never come to pass.
We use what left over worry time there is worrying about our wife, husband, children or friends who usually have the necessary “amount of common sense” to keep themselves out of harms way and thereby remain reasonably safe. Some do it more…some do it less…but most worry far too much.
The final 2% you worry about you might actually do something about…that is if you are not too worn out from the above 98%.
Ah well as you have read this…remember today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday and yesterday was the day you worried about the day before. What did you learn from this exercise?
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It would certainly make sense to remember that “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow but it certainly saps today of its joy.” (Leo Buscaglia)
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Matthew 6:25
”For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? "Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to to his life?”
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Odds are that you have been worrying most about things you cannot do anything about. Statistics say we humans do this approximately 42% of the time.
Then, just to keep the worry system alive and well, you probably have worried 28% of your life away about decisions you made in the past and about which you can no longer do anything.
You are not alone in the above two foolish behavior mechanism but it still does not make such actions wisdom moments.
21% of your hours, days, weeks, months and years the personal worry machines of millions are hard at work worrying about serious illnesses that will never come to pass.
We use what left over worry time there is worrying about our wife, husband, children or friends who usually have the necessary “amount of common sense” to keep themselves out of harms way and thereby remain reasonably safe. Some do it more…some do it less…but most worry far too much.
The final 2% you worry about you might actually do something about…that is if you are not too worn out from the above 98%.
Ah well as you have read this…remember today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday and yesterday was the day you worried about the day before. What did you learn from this exercise?
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It would certainly make sense to remember that “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow but it certainly saps today of its joy.” (Leo Buscaglia)
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Matthew 6:25
”For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? "Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to to his life?”
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Monday, September 13, 2010
WHAT DID GOD DO?
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I have long been a fan of the mind of Leslie Weatherhead. There is such clarity and lack of confusion in his writing.
I love the following analogy. It is his and I now relate it to you.
Imagine, if you will, that there is a nursery where two little boys are playing on the floor with some blocks.
Their father has suggested they build a tower and has told them how. But instead, they quarrel and try a different way from how they were told.
Things go from bad to worse and it seems the tower will never be built.
Now suddenly the father enters the nursery. He sees the problem, the suffering, the pain. What shall he do?
1. He can turn the little boys out of the nursery and build the tower himself. (God did this in the beginning when He created the earth).
2. He can referee the moment. Make the boys behave. Ride herd on their lesser instincts. Even beat them into submission if need be.
3. He can intervene to protect them from all accidents, allow no mishaps, allow them no misfortunes.
4. He can watch from afar as they slowly learn by trial and error.
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“We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory" (1 Cor. 2:7).
“God is "the guide even of wisdom and the corrector of the wise" (Wisdom of Solomon 7:15).
“With Him are wisdom and might; To Him belong counsel and understanding” (Job 12:13).
“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable.” (Isaiah 40:28).
“Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!” (Romans 11:33
“Great is our Lord, and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite.” (Psalms 147:5).
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I have long been a fan of the mind of Leslie Weatherhead. There is such clarity and lack of confusion in his writing.
I love the following analogy. It is his and I now relate it to you.
Imagine, if you will, that there is a nursery where two little boys are playing on the floor with some blocks.
Their father has suggested they build a tower and has told them how. But instead, they quarrel and try a different way from how they were told.
Things go from bad to worse and it seems the tower will never be built.
Now suddenly the father enters the nursery. He sees the problem, the suffering, the pain. What shall he do?
1. He can turn the little boys out of the nursery and build the tower himself. (God did this in the beginning when He created the earth).
2. He can referee the moment. Make the boys behave. Ride herd on their lesser instincts. Even beat them into submission if need be.
3. He can intervene to protect them from all accidents, allow no mishaps, allow them no misfortunes.
4. He can watch from afar as they slowly learn by trial and error.
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“We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory" (1 Cor. 2:7).
“God is "the guide even of wisdom and the corrector of the wise" (Wisdom of Solomon 7:15).
“With Him are wisdom and might; To Him belong counsel and understanding” (Job 12:13).
“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable.” (Isaiah 40:28).
“Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!” (Romans 11:33
“Great is our Lord, and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite.” (Psalms 147:5).
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
AND IT IS CALLED GOOD FRIDAY
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Have you ever thought why the day of Christ’s crucifixion was called Good Friday?
If it was not the deed, then it must have been the attitude.
If it was not the suffering, it must have been how Christ accepted the suffering.
It was what Leslie Weatherhead calls a “frozen asset.”
At the moment of the cross, it seemed as if evil had won going away, but time would change the ledger.
The brief victory of evil would fall before the eternal victory of God.
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Have you ever thought why the day of Christ’s crucifixion was called Good Friday?
If it was not the deed, then it must have been the attitude.
If it was not the suffering, it must have been how Christ accepted the suffering.
It was what Leslie Weatherhead calls a “frozen asset.”
At the moment of the cross, it seemed as if evil had won going away, but time would change the ledger.
The brief victory of evil would fall before the eternal victory of God.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
WHO WAS HE?
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He was born in a small out of the way village.
He learned a simple trade and spent the first 30 years of his life making benches, tables and various and sundry articles of the carpenters’ trade.
He never got a degree or a Doctorate (honorary or otherwise).
He was never approved by a secular or sacred board or sat in on any important committees.
He was never elected Chief Priest among the Pharisees and Sanhedrin.
He was never made Governor of his state or even elected to some board of commissioners.
He was never a member of a Diaconate or made an Elder or chosen as President of a Men’s Group.
He could not claim a Reverend before his name or point to a listing in Dunn and Bradstreet.
He was not a member of Rotary or Lions or selected as the outstanding Young Man of the Year by the J.C’s.
He did not own a closet full of the best suits from Macy’s nor did he drive the classiest chariot in the city.
All he did was preach the love of God and man for less than three years.
And wear a simple seamless garment while he preached.
His only invitation from the leaders of his day was for a trial.
His only soldier escort was to a cross.
Yet the world is a different place because of Him.
And men do not walk with sins heavy on their hearts or fear of death because He lived and died and rose again.
His success was in the tender combination of humanity and the divine.
His success was in the life He lived as well as in the miraculous way He rose from the dead.
What really made this Jesus stand out in history was not just the resurrection but the man.
Humble, kind and full of love.
A man who counted every other man by his need and not by the cut of his cloth or the color of his skin or the title before his name.
What made Jesus great was not what He had for He had nothing, not even what men said about Him, for many cursed His name.
What made Jesus great was what and who He was.
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"John 14:9
“Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?”
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He was born in a small out of the way village.
He learned a simple trade and spent the first 30 years of his life making benches, tables and various and sundry articles of the carpenters’ trade.
He never got a degree or a Doctorate (honorary or otherwise).
He was never approved by a secular or sacred board or sat in on any important committees.
He was never elected Chief Priest among the Pharisees and Sanhedrin.
He was never made Governor of his state or even elected to some board of commissioners.
He was never a member of a Diaconate or made an Elder or chosen as President of a Men’s Group.
He could not claim a Reverend before his name or point to a listing in Dunn and Bradstreet.
He was not a member of Rotary or Lions or selected as the outstanding Young Man of the Year by the J.C’s.
He did not own a closet full of the best suits from Macy’s nor did he drive the classiest chariot in the city.
All he did was preach the love of God and man for less than three years.
And wear a simple seamless garment while he preached.
His only invitation from the leaders of his day was for a trial.
His only soldier escort was to a cross.
Yet the world is a different place because of Him.
And men do not walk with sins heavy on their hearts or fear of death because He lived and died and rose again.
His success was in the tender combination of humanity and the divine.
His success was in the life He lived as well as in the miraculous way He rose from the dead.
What really made this Jesus stand out in history was not just the resurrection but the man.
Humble, kind and full of love.
A man who counted every other man by his need and not by the cut of his cloth or the color of his skin or the title before his name.
What made Jesus great was not what He had for He had nothing, not even what men said about Him, for many cursed His name.
What made Jesus great was what and who He was.
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"John 14:9
“Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?”
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Friday, September 10, 2010
LET GO…LET GOD
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The old man had never ridden in a plane before. It was ten years after World War I and this relic from those warrior years had seen better days.
It was held together with glue, tape prayer.
When he got down after his first ride someone asked him how he liked it, and his reply was classic, “It might have been alright, cept’ it was so rickety I neer could let go my whole weight on it.”
And that’s how it is with some folk…when it comes to God and their faith they just never let to their whole weight on it.
How does that old hymn go, “"And He walks with me and He talks with me; and He tells me I am his own. And the joy we share as we tarry there; None other has ever known."
It’s all about the clarity of closeness, a daily walk with our Lord, a persistent prayer life that becomes an ongoing lifeline.
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"Jesus said to them: 'I am the bread of life. He that comes to me will not get hungry at all, and he that exercises faith in me will never get thirsty at all.' " - John 6:35
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The old man had never ridden in a plane before. It was ten years after World War I and this relic from those warrior years had seen better days.
It was held together with glue, tape prayer.
When he got down after his first ride someone asked him how he liked it, and his reply was classic, “It might have been alright, cept’ it was so rickety I neer could let go my whole weight on it.”
And that’s how it is with some folk…when it comes to God and their faith they just never let to their whole weight on it.
How does that old hymn go, “"And He walks with me and He talks with me; and He tells me I am his own. And the joy we share as we tarry there; None other has ever known."
It’s all about the clarity of closeness, a daily walk with our Lord, a persistent prayer life that becomes an ongoing lifeline.
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"Jesus said to them: 'I am the bread of life. He that comes to me will not get hungry at all, and he that exercises faith in me will never get thirsty at all.' " - John 6:35
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Thursday, September 9, 2010
AND YOU CAN
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William Gladstone was one of Great Britain’s greatest Prime Ministers. He served his country for 62 years.
At eighty eight years of age he was asked by a younger colleague,” How do you remain so calm and think so clearly?”
Gladstone said, “For sixty years I have kept a prayer of David close in my mind, and this is it, “Oh Lord, keep me as the apple of Thine eye. Hide me under the shadow of thy wings.”
Gladstone went on to say, “Never in my life have I been too busy for God. And never in my life has God been too busy for me.”
A woman examining a sunset painting by the great artist Turner exclaimed, “I never so sunset like that.”
Turner’s apt reply was, “Don’t you wish you could?
And he could and you can…as Gladstone did…and anyone who REALLY wants to sharpen their ability to see beauty and goodness and feel the tug of God at their soul.
By prayer…by wanting to see and feel the presence of God…and doing this day after day after day until the last day on earth and the beginning of eternity.
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“On the other hand, the fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control. Against such things there is no law." - Galatians 5:22,23
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William Gladstone was one of Great Britain’s greatest Prime Ministers. He served his country for 62 years.
At eighty eight years of age he was asked by a younger colleague,” How do you remain so calm and think so clearly?”
Gladstone said, “For sixty years I have kept a prayer of David close in my mind, and this is it, “Oh Lord, keep me as the apple of Thine eye. Hide me under the shadow of thy wings.”
Gladstone went on to say, “Never in my life have I been too busy for God. And never in my life has God been too busy for me.”
A woman examining a sunset painting by the great artist Turner exclaimed, “I never so sunset like that.”
Turner’s apt reply was, “Don’t you wish you could?
And he could and you can…as Gladstone did…and anyone who REALLY wants to sharpen their ability to see beauty and goodness and feel the tug of God at their soul.
By prayer…by wanting to see and feel the presence of God…and doing this day after day after day until the last day on earth and the beginning of eternity.
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“On the other hand, the fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control. Against such things there is no law." - Galatians 5:22,23
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
THE PICTURES ARE NO LONGER ON TRIAL…BUT THE SPECTATORS ARE.
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He was a businessman and he was in a hurry. He raced through the Louvre in Paris at a pace that made almost a blur of everything he was seeing.
As he exited the museum he said to a guard, “Not a picture in there worth seeing.”
The guards reply was a classic, “The pictures are no longer on trial…but the spectators are.”
Every day the sensitivity of your soul is on trial…certainly not God.
Every day, if you do not rush by the truth of God you come closer to the presence of God. How? By prayer being number one in your life’s goals and follow through because as Shakespeare once wrote, “Don’t you know that the water which comes down as rain must have first gone up as mist>.”
A great preacher John Redhead once wrote, “The trouble with some good people is that their faith is intellectually valid, but has not yet become emotionally vivid.”
Man is an interesting paradox of intelligence and stupidity. He will shine his shoes, comb his hair, shave his face, seek in everyway he can to look neat and civilized.
Then he will clutter his mind with dirt and let his soul go to pot.
He will be sure he looks respectable on the outside while inside he may be a tramp and it doesn’t bother some people enough to do anything about it.
And it doesn’t have to be this way.
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“He who is of God hears God's words;” (John 8:47)
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He was a businessman and he was in a hurry. He raced through the Louvre in Paris at a pace that made almost a blur of everything he was seeing.
As he exited the museum he said to a guard, “Not a picture in there worth seeing.”
The guards reply was a classic, “The pictures are no longer on trial…but the spectators are.”
Every day the sensitivity of your soul is on trial…certainly not God.
Every day, if you do not rush by the truth of God you come closer to the presence of God. How? By prayer being number one in your life’s goals and follow through because as Shakespeare once wrote, “Don’t you know that the water which comes down as rain must have first gone up as mist>.”
A great preacher John Redhead once wrote, “The trouble with some good people is that their faith is intellectually valid, but has not yet become emotionally vivid.”
Man is an interesting paradox of intelligence and stupidity. He will shine his shoes, comb his hair, shave his face, seek in everyway he can to look neat and civilized.
Then he will clutter his mind with dirt and let his soul go to pot.
He will be sure he looks respectable on the outside while inside he may be a tramp and it doesn’t bother some people enough to do anything about it.
And it doesn’t have to be this way.
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“He who is of God hears God's words;” (John 8:47)
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
THE RUBE GOLDBERG EFFECT
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A number of decades ago, a cartoonist by the name of Rube Goldberg used to make crazy drawings about crazier inventions.
A dog would chase a cat, who would knock over a pain of water, that would release a spring, that would activate a gun, that would fire and hit a target, that would ring a bell, that would make a punch drunk fighter get up off his stool, that would pull a light switch, that would enable a man to read his paper, who before had been sitting in darkness.
Absurd, but not impossible.
And ridiculous as these drawings were, they taughts a lesson.
They taught that all events are related to all other events.
An ounce of hate can cause a pound of trouble.
A word of faith can stop a suicide or start a mission field.
None of us ever completely knows who is listening or looking as we start some kind of domino effect.
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“He will keep in perfect peace all those who trust in Him, whose thoughts turn often to the Lord! Trust in the Lord God always, for in the Lord Jehovah is your everlasting strength.” (Isaiah 26: 4)
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A number of decades ago, a cartoonist by the name of Rube Goldberg used to make crazy drawings about crazier inventions.
A dog would chase a cat, who would knock over a pain of water, that would release a spring, that would activate a gun, that would fire and hit a target, that would ring a bell, that would make a punch drunk fighter get up off his stool, that would pull a light switch, that would enable a man to read his paper, who before had been sitting in darkness.
Absurd, but not impossible.
And ridiculous as these drawings were, they taughts a lesson.
They taught that all events are related to all other events.
An ounce of hate can cause a pound of trouble.
A word of faith can stop a suicide or start a mission field.
None of us ever completely knows who is listening or looking as we start some kind of domino effect.
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“He will keep in perfect peace all those who trust in Him, whose thoughts turn often to the Lord! Trust in the Lord God always, for in the Lord Jehovah is your everlasting strength.” (Isaiah 26: 4)
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Monday, September 6, 2010
ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A LITTLE CHILD…
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His hair was golden from the sun, his heart golden so newly come from God.
He met his mornings with laughter. All kind of things were funny, or good or just plain nice.
He liked to curl his toes in the mud. He had a friend and sometimes they didn’t do anything particularly significant.
They just practiced friendship.
Sometimes when he said his prayers at night, he felt like he’d like to raise up and put his arms around God’s neck, give Him a good nights kiss, and say, “Gosh, it’s nice in this ole world. Even if I did get stung by a bee this morning, and stubbed my toe just before supper.
Gosh, its nice this world.”
God felt that close to him and it was good.
But then he grew up. He learned bad habits he was forced to defend.
Somewhere along the way he got too busy for God so that he never prayed at night anymore and Sunday mornings became an occasional burden.
And smart, he got very smart! So smart that he could damn God without blinking an eye, and friends – many of his friends he judged only by what he could get out of them.
His hair got so it wasn’t so golden anymore and neither was his heart.
Someone has said that the final judgment of any society is the kind of individuals it turns out. I would suggest that the final judgment of any individual is also the kind of society he or she turns out.
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"The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger..." Job 17:9
"I love you, Lord; you are my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety." Psalm 18: 1-2
"The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song." Psalm 28:7
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His hair was golden from the sun, his heart golden so newly come from God.
He met his mornings with laughter. All kind of things were funny, or good or just plain nice.
He liked to curl his toes in the mud. He had a friend and sometimes they didn’t do anything particularly significant.
They just practiced friendship.
Sometimes when he said his prayers at night, he felt like he’d like to raise up and put his arms around God’s neck, give Him a good nights kiss, and say, “Gosh, it’s nice in this ole world. Even if I did get stung by a bee this morning, and stubbed my toe just before supper.
Gosh, its nice this world.”
God felt that close to him and it was good.
But then he grew up. He learned bad habits he was forced to defend.
Somewhere along the way he got too busy for God so that he never prayed at night anymore and Sunday mornings became an occasional burden.
And smart, he got very smart! So smart that he could damn God without blinking an eye, and friends – many of his friends he judged only by what he could get out of them.
His hair got so it wasn’t so golden anymore and neither was his heart.
Someone has said that the final judgment of any society is the kind of individuals it turns out. I would suggest that the final judgment of any individual is also the kind of society he or she turns out.
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"The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger..." Job 17:9
"I love you, Lord; you are my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety." Psalm 18: 1-2
"The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song." Psalm 28:7
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
WHAT MAKES A CHILD SO DIFFERENT?
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“A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.” That is the way the philosopher Mencius put it.
Jesus said, “Except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.”
So what then has a child that is so special except an abundance of youth?
He cannot make money, he cannot build buildings. He cannot be an adult with all the superior ways and means of adult living.
A child can only laugh and play.
A child can only have a simple unsophisticated faith about God.
A child can only get mad easily and forgive quickly.
So what then, has a child that is so special? I think I have begun to answer the question.
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“And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”
(Matthew 18:2-6 )
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“A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.” That is the way the philosopher Mencius put it.
Jesus said, “Except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.”
So what then has a child that is so special except an abundance of youth?
He cannot make money, he cannot build buildings. He cannot be an adult with all the superior ways and means of adult living.
A child can only laugh and play.
A child can only have a simple unsophisticated faith about God.
A child can only get mad easily and forgive quickly.
So what then, has a child that is so special? I think I have begun to answer the question.
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“And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”
(Matthew 18:2-6 )
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Saturday, September 4, 2010
I’M GOING YOU WAY
I’M GOING YOU WAY
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It was over a century ago and the older man was carrying a heavy suitcase in one hand and even heavier valise in the other.
And with every step it was becoming heavier. As he walked from the terminal down 42nd street, on his way to a hotel his breathing was becoming more pronounced.
He had always been blessed with good strength. Perhaps his age was catching up with him.
“Booker,” Booker T. Washington said to himself, “you can make it.”
Just at that moment, a pleasant voice said, “Pretty heavy, brother! Suppose you let me take it. I’m going your way.”
The black man resisted but finally allowed the young white man to assist him carrying his burden and for several blocks they chatted like old friends.”
“And that,” said Book T. Washington, born a slave, one of the new leaders of Tuskegee, “was the first time I ever met Theodore Roosevelt.”
What a wonderful story about Teddy Roosevelt…and his attitude of love and humility…born to wealth…becoming President of these United States...by passing the prejudice of his day.
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Someone has said, “Hate is so powerful an acid, that it destroys the vessel in which it is stored, even more than those upon whom it is poured.”
And love neutralizes this acid called hate and produces kindness and concern and prejudices dies before it…
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We all have stories that could be told about us. Good, bad and indifferent.
How many such stories could be told about you…about me? What kind of stories indeed?
“We love because he first loved us.” (I John 4:19).
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It was over a century ago and the older man was carrying a heavy suitcase in one hand and even heavier valise in the other.
And with every step it was becoming heavier. As he walked from the terminal down 42nd street, on his way to a hotel his breathing was becoming more pronounced.
He had always been blessed with good strength. Perhaps his age was catching up with him.
“Booker,” Booker T. Washington said to himself, “you can make it.”
Just at that moment, a pleasant voice said, “Pretty heavy, brother! Suppose you let me take it. I’m going your way.”
The black man resisted but finally allowed the young white man to assist him carrying his burden and for several blocks they chatted like old friends.”
“And that,” said Book T. Washington, born a slave, one of the new leaders of Tuskegee, “was the first time I ever met Theodore Roosevelt.”
What a wonderful story about Teddy Roosevelt…and his attitude of love and humility…born to wealth…becoming President of these United States...by passing the prejudice of his day.
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Someone has said, “Hate is so powerful an acid, that it destroys the vessel in which it is stored, even more than those upon whom it is poured.”
And love neutralizes this acid called hate and produces kindness and concern and prejudices dies before it…
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We all have stories that could be told about us. Good, bad and indifferent.
How many such stories could be told about you…about me? What kind of stories indeed?
“We love because he first loved us.” (I John 4:19).
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To view an abundance of unusual stories & unique comments by Neil Wyrick go to his other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
Click on the following URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
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Friday, September 3, 2010
A CHAIN REACTION CALLED LOVE
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One tiny fragile little wrist was tied to a rusty old bedpost with an electric cord. Her body was covered with bruises and her lips were bleeding from being recently battered by her mother’s hand.
This was what the police found when they entered the house and saw Mary Beth’s naked little body trembling in the darkened room.
As they carried her out past her mother and their eyes met the little girl cried out, “Mommy, if I die, then will you love me?”
The little girls’ greatest pain was that she felt she was not loved.
It is most unlikely that if you are a parent you physically abuse your children or your husband or wife but too many do emotionally abuse them with bickering, taking nagging to a new level, finding fault on a regular basis.
To a child, “You are a bad kid…a dumb kid…you are driving me crazy…”
To a wife, “How could you have said that…done that…you are so sloppy…you are driving me crazy….you…
To a husband, “Why do always have to…why don’t you…you are a failure…you are driving me crazy…you…
It is a terrible thing if your child or husband or wife often think “Would you finally love me if I died?”
A home can be a heaven or a hell. It can be the loneliest place in the world or a place where it seems the sound of music fills every heart and head.
This is what love does, expressed by word and deed; by patient concern, by an absence of pouting and a presence of powerful prayers, for new ways to show love one to the other.
By just being nice rather than nasty…loving rather than loveless…
What have you promised yourself that you will do or become to better show how much you love your family? How often have you kept these promises or broken them because you were too busy or too impatient or….
Initiate a positive imitation policy.
Be loving and kind and good to others in your family and you may well set up a chain reaction. Do the opposite; be hateful and cruel and no good to others in your family and you may well set up that kind of chain reaction also.
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“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:7)
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To view an abundance of unusual stories by Neil Wyrick go to his other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
Click on the following URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
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One tiny fragile little wrist was tied to a rusty old bedpost with an electric cord. Her body was covered with bruises and her lips were bleeding from being recently battered by her mother’s hand.
This was what the police found when they entered the house and saw Mary Beth’s naked little body trembling in the darkened room.
As they carried her out past her mother and their eyes met the little girl cried out, “Mommy, if I die, then will you love me?”
The little girls’ greatest pain was that she felt she was not loved.
It is most unlikely that if you are a parent you physically abuse your children or your husband or wife but too many do emotionally abuse them with bickering, taking nagging to a new level, finding fault on a regular basis.
To a child, “You are a bad kid…a dumb kid…you are driving me crazy…”
To a wife, “How could you have said that…done that…you are so sloppy…you are driving me crazy….you…
To a husband, “Why do always have to…why don’t you…you are a failure…you are driving me crazy…you…
It is a terrible thing if your child or husband or wife often think “Would you finally love me if I died?”
A home can be a heaven or a hell. It can be the loneliest place in the world or a place where it seems the sound of music fills every heart and head.
This is what love does, expressed by word and deed; by patient concern, by an absence of pouting and a presence of powerful prayers, for new ways to show love one to the other.
By just being nice rather than nasty…loving rather than loveless…
What have you promised yourself that you will do or become to better show how much you love your family? How often have you kept these promises or broken them because you were too busy or too impatient or….
Initiate a positive imitation policy.
Be loving and kind and good to others in your family and you may well set up a chain reaction. Do the opposite; be hateful and cruel and no good to others in your family and you may well set up that kind of chain reaction also.
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“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:7)
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To view an abundance of unusual stories by Neil Wyrick go to his other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
Click on the following URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
CHECK IN WITH YOUR INVOICE
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The little girl wanted to go to the zoo. The father was explaining why he couldn’t tale her. “I have to work on my invoice.”
Finally, she thought she understood. Explaining her dilemma to a girl friend she said, “Daddy can’t take me to the zoo because his conscience is bother him.”
Whether you call it invoice, conscience or talking to your insides while your insides talk to you…when you feel guilt and can’t find forgiveness, it is one of life’s deepest and most painful experiences.
Willaim Elliott in his book THE CURE FOR ANXIETY writes “The man who feels no guilt has never seen God.”
Guilt can cramp a man or woman’s style. Thieves have to go to work, gossips have to go to silence, all kind of sins have to be buried or suffer the consequences.
Indeed, there are two available avenues; damn God and accept the Devil or admit sin and accept forgiveness.
By the first you kill a conscience. By the second you redeem a soul.
In short, you rid yourself of your conscience by saying “I don’t care” or avail yourself of God’s love by affirming “God does care.”
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“For I will be merciful and gracious toward their sins and I will remember their deeds of unrighteousness no more.”
Hebrews 8: 12
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To view an abundance of unusual stories & unique comments by Neil Wyrick go to his other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
Click on the following URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
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The little girl wanted to go to the zoo. The father was explaining why he couldn’t tale her. “I have to work on my invoice.”
Finally, she thought she understood. Explaining her dilemma to a girl friend she said, “Daddy can’t take me to the zoo because his conscience is bother him.”
Whether you call it invoice, conscience or talking to your insides while your insides talk to you…when you feel guilt and can’t find forgiveness, it is one of life’s deepest and most painful experiences.
Willaim Elliott in his book THE CURE FOR ANXIETY writes “The man who feels no guilt has never seen God.”
Guilt can cramp a man or woman’s style. Thieves have to go to work, gossips have to go to silence, all kind of sins have to be buried or suffer the consequences.
Indeed, there are two available avenues; damn God and accept the Devil or admit sin and accept forgiveness.
By the first you kill a conscience. By the second you redeem a soul.
In short, you rid yourself of your conscience by saying “I don’t care” or avail yourself of God’s love by affirming “God does care.”
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“For I will be merciful and gracious toward their sins and I will remember their deeds of unrighteousness no more.”
Hebrews 8: 12
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To view an abundance of unusual stories & unique comments by Neil Wyrick go to his other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
Click on the following URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
DUE DILLIGENCE
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Sir Walter Scott, a prolific historical Scottish novelist once wrote, “I am very ill today with rheumatic headache, an affliction which fills my head with pain, my heart with sadness and my eyes with tears. I worked therefore all this afternoon.”
That’s the kind of diligence, duty and decision, the kind of get-up and go that doesn’t get up and went that can change a life and change the world.
“Human nature,” said Alfred North Whitehead, “loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored, yet insistent.”
We all need a constant hope for the highest to reign within.
It is a shame how some make the most of nothing and then build a shrine to its everlasting care.
The Apostle Paul once wrote, “Ye are not your own for ye are bought with a price, therefore, glorify God.” The Greek word for “bought” is AGORADZO, but in Greek it means more than bought. It means, “to purchase for a purpose…to utilize.”
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To view an abundance of unusual stories & unique comments by Neil Wyrick go to his other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
Click on the following URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
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Sir Walter Scott, a prolific historical Scottish novelist once wrote, “I am very ill today with rheumatic headache, an affliction which fills my head with pain, my heart with sadness and my eyes with tears. I worked therefore all this afternoon.”
That’s the kind of diligence, duty and decision, the kind of get-up and go that doesn’t get up and went that can change a life and change the world.
“Human nature,” said Alfred North Whitehead, “loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored, yet insistent.”
We all need a constant hope for the highest to reign within.
It is a shame how some make the most of nothing and then build a shrine to its everlasting care.
The Apostle Paul once wrote, “Ye are not your own for ye are bought with a price, therefore, glorify God.” The Greek word for “bought” is AGORADZO, but in Greek it means more than bought. It means, “to purchase for a purpose…to utilize.”
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To view an abundance of unusual stories & unique comments by Neil Wyrick go to his other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
Click on the following URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
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