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The 26 year old Korean graduate student had been studying hard for a political science exam. To take a break he went out to mail a letter.
The letter was mailed but he never got back to his apartment.
A gang of violent teenagers were looking for someone to rob so they could go to a dance.
The young Korean was at the wrong place at the wrong time. They robbed and killed him.
The authorities broke the case and arrested the young hoodlums.
They showed no remorse or regret. The fact is they sneered at the policemen who arrested and displayed outright arrogance at their trial.
The members of the Koreans mother took up an offering so she could come to the trial.
Therefore, she was there when they were sentenced to death.
What she did next left many in the courtroom speechless.
She walked forward, fell to her knees in front of the judge and pled that their lives be spared.
What the teenagers did next was their first positive response to the murders.
They began to weep and express their sorrow for what they had done.
Repentance comes slowly with some and sometimes not at all…but when it does come…hand in hand with forgiveness…those angels in heaven sing again.
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“Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.” Thomas Carlyle
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For if you forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], your heavenly Father will also forgive you. Matthew 6: 14
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Tomorrows blog is on FAITH AND FAITHLESSNESS
A quote from tomorrows blog
“Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.”
Corrie Ten Boom
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on MY other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sunday Sept 19…
and has continued Each SUNDAY until finished.
A new Series on PRAYER will begin when this series ends
To read these and a variety of topics
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
COURAGE AND SPIRITUAL MUSCLES
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That morning in 1964 I had my right kidney removed I was fully aware that I might be severely crippled because of certain muscles that in that age of surgery had to be cut through…
So I prayed, “Lord protect me for I have work to do and if I must live with some crippling allow me the privilege of praying a constant dream of thanksgiving for the blessings I will continue to have.”
My surgeon was one of the best and I was another of his successful surgeries but what counted equally as much was the gift of courage and serenity that God gave me.
Indeed, just before the time of surgery I asked the nurse what my pulse rate was and she replied, “Completely normal.”
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
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“Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord (Psalms 31:24).”
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A QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG
“Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on MY other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sunday Sept 19…
and has continued Each SUNDAY until finished.
A new Series on PRAYER will begin when this series ends
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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That morning in 1964 I had my right kidney removed I was fully aware that I might be severely crippled because of certain muscles that in that age of surgery had to be cut through…
So I prayed, “Lord protect me for I have work to do and if I must live with some crippling allow me the privilege of praying a constant dream of thanksgiving for the blessings I will continue to have.”
My surgeon was one of the best and I was another of his successful surgeries but what counted equally as much was the gift of courage and serenity that God gave me.
Indeed, just before the time of surgery I asked the nurse what my pulse rate was and she replied, “Completely normal.”
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
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“Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord (Psalms 31:24).”
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A QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG
“Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on MY other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sunday Sept 19…
and has continued Each SUNDAY until finished.
A new Series on PRAYER will begin when this series ends
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Friday, October 29, 2010
FALL TALL
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These thoughts are added to each day
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In my seminary graduating class there were several of my friends who faced distinct challenges to say the least.
One suffered from epileptic seizures. He made light of this fact as he prepared to go out to his first pastorate, “Well, if I have a fit in the pulpit, it won’t last forever and besides my congregation will know it might happen, so what’s to worry about.”
Another friend of mine, in our first Seminary year, stuttered so badly one could barely understand what he was saying when he preached. Plus his sermon lasted twice as long with half the content.
By the time he headed toward his first church his improvement was nothing short of miraculous.
I still remember seeing him out on the athletic field pacing back and forth while he tried to tame his recalcitrant tongue.
Stumbling blocks turned into stepping stone.
Anyone can fall and all of us do and more than once.
The difference is that some people get back up and keep on going and others just lie there.
It all comes down to whether or not you can be satisfied with being Never-was and Never-tried-to-be.
Ben Franklin said it, “When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot in it and hang on.”
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“ But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.” II Chro. 15:7
Tomorrow…more on Courage
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on MY other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sunday Sept 19…
and has continued Each SUNDAY until finished.
A new Series on PRAYER will begin when this series ends
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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These thoughts are added to each day
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In my seminary graduating class there were several of my friends who faced distinct challenges to say the least.
One suffered from epileptic seizures. He made light of this fact as he prepared to go out to his first pastorate, “Well, if I have a fit in the pulpit, it won’t last forever and besides my congregation will know it might happen, so what’s to worry about.”
Another friend of mine, in our first Seminary year, stuttered so badly one could barely understand what he was saying when he preached. Plus his sermon lasted twice as long with half the content.
By the time he headed toward his first church his improvement was nothing short of miraculous.
I still remember seeing him out on the athletic field pacing back and forth while he tried to tame his recalcitrant tongue.
Stumbling blocks turned into stepping stone.
Anyone can fall and all of us do and more than once.
The difference is that some people get back up and keep on going and others just lie there.
It all comes down to whether or not you can be satisfied with being Never-was and Never-tried-to-be.
Ben Franklin said it, “When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot in it and hang on.”
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“ But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.” II Chro. 15:7
Tomorrow…more on Courage
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on MY other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sunday Sept 19…
and has continued Each SUNDAY until finished.
A new Series on PRAYER will begin when this series ends
To read these and a variety of topics
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http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
WHEN IS ACCEPTANCE UNACCEPTIBLE? (Adulation is not always your friend)
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A number of years ago, Don Schollander, an Olympic gold medal winner in swimming discussed the dangers of fame.
After he had won the Olympic medal he began receiving an unbelievable number of calls to speak and be given Awards real, pseudo and otherwise.
He turned them down on a regular basis.
His explanation was as follows, “If I had accepted all those invitations I would no longer be able to have the time to work out, to hone my skills and to continue to be a championship swimmer. Indeed I would grow fat, flunk out of college and be an utter failure in what had brought me to such an Olympic honor.”
He would then pause and close with the following statement, “The pool is filled is filled with sweat, not water.”
And that is how it is with all of us. Success that comes easily goes quickly sometimes if we reach an “I deserve it” attitude I can sit back and coast now. True no matter what the goal is.
Indeed, I love the quote “Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is forever.”
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“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2
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Tomorrow…Comments on Courage
Quote from tomorrows blog
It all comes down to whether or not you can be satisfied with being Never-was and Never-tried-to-be.
Ben Franklin said it, “When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot in it and hang on.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on MY other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sunday Sept 19…
and has continued Each SUNDAY until finished.
A new Series on PRAYER will begin when this series ends
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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A number of years ago, Don Schollander, an Olympic gold medal winner in swimming discussed the dangers of fame.
After he had won the Olympic medal he began receiving an unbelievable number of calls to speak and be given Awards real, pseudo and otherwise.
He turned them down on a regular basis.
His explanation was as follows, “If I had accepted all those invitations I would no longer be able to have the time to work out, to hone my skills and to continue to be a championship swimmer. Indeed I would grow fat, flunk out of college and be an utter failure in what had brought me to such an Olympic honor.”
He would then pause and close with the following statement, “The pool is filled is filled with sweat, not water.”
And that is how it is with all of us. Success that comes easily goes quickly sometimes if we reach an “I deserve it” attitude I can sit back and coast now. True no matter what the goal is.
Indeed, I love the quote “Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is forever.”
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“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2
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Tomorrow…Comments on Courage
Quote from tomorrows blog
It all comes down to whether or not you can be satisfied with being Never-was and Never-tried-to-be.
Ben Franklin said it, “When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot in it and hang on.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on MY other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sunday Sept 19…
and has continued Each SUNDAY until finished.
A new Series on PRAYER will begin when this series ends
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
WHO SAID THE IMPOSSIBLE IS IMPOSSIBLE?
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Rev. Vivian Symons, a young English minister looked at his world after World War II as a challenge rather than an a series of impossibilities. There was a shortage of everything so…
So, because he wanted to build a new church and new materials were a problem he took the dilemma, cranked up his imagination and energy and found nothing can stop one if one does not want to be stopped.
He received permission to take an old no longer used church in ill repair and literally falling down around itself and began to move it…stone by stone by stone.
He did this virtually all by himself.
125,000 bricks, 400 tons of stone, 70,000 tiles, two and a half tons of lead and a huge amount of rubble for the foundation.
He sometimes would stop a moment and wonder if perhaps he were just a little out of his mind…
But then he would grin and pray and go back for another load.
He mashed his fingers. He skinned his knees. He pulled muscles he hadn’t even known he had.
“But what satisfaction in the suffering,” he would say to himself.
His will was stronger than his won’t and he was a great mathematician because when he would grow weary he would say to himself, “One more load. I can certainly move one more load. Thank you God, I can count.”
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Luke 21:19 NKJV) "By your patience possess your souls.”
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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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Below is a quote from the serialization of my novel RUST ON MY SOUL. (Go to Wyrick’s Writings April 13th to start reading it. A new addition appears each Tuesday)
It wasn’t a dream. Connie did come home yesterday. And now the restoration of a family must begin.
Somehow I must find the right words at the right time and forget the reruns in the movie house of my mind.
“I hate you, dad!”
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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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Rev. Vivian Symons, a young English minister looked at his world after World War II as a challenge rather than an a series of impossibilities. There was a shortage of everything so…
So, because he wanted to build a new church and new materials were a problem he took the dilemma, cranked up his imagination and energy and found nothing can stop one if one does not want to be stopped.
He received permission to take an old no longer used church in ill repair and literally falling down around itself and began to move it…stone by stone by stone.
He did this virtually all by himself.
125,000 bricks, 400 tons of stone, 70,000 tiles, two and a half tons of lead and a huge amount of rubble for the foundation.
He sometimes would stop a moment and wonder if perhaps he were just a little out of his mind…
But then he would grin and pray and go back for another load.
He mashed his fingers. He skinned his knees. He pulled muscles he hadn’t even known he had.
“But what satisfaction in the suffering,” he would say to himself.
His will was stronger than his won’t and he was a great mathematician because when he would grow weary he would say to himself, “One more load. I can certainly move one more load. Thank you God, I can count.”
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Luke 21:19 NKJV) "By your patience possess your souls.”
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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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Below is a quote from the serialization of my novel RUST ON MY SOUL. (Go to Wyrick’s Writings April 13th to start reading it. A new addition appears each Tuesday)
It wasn’t a dream. Connie did come home yesterday. And now the restoration of a family must begin.
Somehow I must find the right words at the right time and forget the reruns in the movie house of my mind.
“I hate you, dad!”
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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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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
WHATS OVER THERE THAT I WON'T FIND OVER HERE?
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The city girl and her aunt had walked a long way and they came to a stream.
On the other side was a beautiful meadow and the Aunt who still had enough of a child in her to make life interesting, was ready at the moments notice to fling off her shoes and ford her way to the other side.
“Oh no,” her niece complained,” I may cut my feet on the stones and I see no shade over there so the sun will make my nose peal and I may cut my feet on the rocks and…”
Her aunt interrupted her with an interesting response, “Dear me good niece of mine. I am afraid you suffer from the malady of seeing pitfalls where there are bridges and problems where there is discovery. Dear me good niece of mine, if you are like this at fifteen…what will you be when you reach my age.”
Well, now good reader, if you have reached the age of the aunt or beyond what have you become?
It is amazing what one can do if they see solutions rather than impossibilities, dream dreams rather than envision nightmares, take an extra step rather than stumble and then sit down.
Life presents us with failures and successes, with joys and sorrows and most of all opportunities which we should not let fear cause us to pass life by.
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Check in on tomorrow’s blog. It will be a story about a man who took on an impossible dream and turned it into a reality.
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I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
—Philippians 4:13
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on MY other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sunday Sept 19…
and has continued Each SUNDAY until finished.
A new Series on PRAYER will begin when this series ends
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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The city girl and her aunt had walked a long way and they came to a stream.
On the other side was a beautiful meadow and the Aunt who still had enough of a child in her to make life interesting, was ready at the moments notice to fling off her shoes and ford her way to the other side.
“Oh no,” her niece complained,” I may cut my feet on the stones and I see no shade over there so the sun will make my nose peal and I may cut my feet on the rocks and…”
Her aunt interrupted her with an interesting response, “Dear me good niece of mine. I am afraid you suffer from the malady of seeing pitfalls where there are bridges and problems where there is discovery. Dear me good niece of mine, if you are like this at fifteen…what will you be when you reach my age.”
Well, now good reader, if you have reached the age of the aunt or beyond what have you become?
It is amazing what one can do if they see solutions rather than impossibilities, dream dreams rather than envision nightmares, take an extra step rather than stumble and then sit down.
Life presents us with failures and successes, with joys and sorrows and most of all opportunities which we should not let fear cause us to pass life by.
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Check in on tomorrow’s blog. It will be a story about a man who took on an impossible dream and turned it into a reality.
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I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
—Philippians 4:13
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on MY other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sunday Sept 19…
and has continued Each SUNDAY until finished.
A new Series on PRAYER will begin when this series ends
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Monday, October 25, 2010
COURAGE!
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Earlier in the 20th century the North Sea went on a rampage. It’s flood waters threatened the lives of thousands.
It was during this time that an American Airman, 22 year old Rais Laming, volunteered for relief work.
Using a rubber raft, he waded in neck deep water to rescue a total of 27 Britons and Americans.
Later, in Kingston England, an official giving him an award, described what he did as an incredible unbelievable act of heroism.
Because…
You see…
He couldn’t swim.
I never see a ship in a harbor without thinking that it was not made for docking but for sailing.
And so it is with you and me.
We were made for doing and risking whether it is taking an emotional risk or a mental risk or a commitment so big to God it is a spiritual risk.
Courage is not always a shout. Sometimes it is the quiet perseverance of trying something you failed at once again.
"This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. " Joshua 1:9 (New Living Translation)
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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 Sunday 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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Earlier in the 20th century the North Sea went on a rampage. It’s flood waters threatened the lives of thousands.
It was during this time that an American Airman, 22 year old Rais Laming, volunteered for relief work.
Using a rubber raft, he waded in neck deep water to rescue a total of 27 Britons and Americans.
Later, in Kingston England, an official giving him an award, described what he did as an incredible unbelievable act of heroism.
Because…
You see…
He couldn’t swim.
I never see a ship in a harbor without thinking that it was not made for docking but for sailing.
And so it is with you and me.
We were made for doing and risking whether it is taking an emotional risk or a mental risk or a commitment so big to God it is a spiritual risk.
Courage is not always a shout. Sometimes it is the quiet perseverance of trying something you failed at once again.
"This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. " Joshua 1:9 (New Living Translation)
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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 Sunday 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, October 24, 2010
THEY WILL NEVER FORGET
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One day a father, trying to inspire his son to a more careful application to his school work and his household chores, said to him, “Son, do you know what Abraham Lincoln was doing when he was your age?”
“No sir,” quickly replied the boy,” but I know what he was doing when he was your age.”
Sometimes we adults play a game called LET’S JUMP ON THE TEENAGERS and we give them a hard time and sometimes they need to be called to task…but meanwhile we need to set an example that is equal to our instructions to them.
Another little boy stood in front of his father and he held in his hand a bad report card.
“Dad,” he said, “what do you think is responsible for this, heredity or environment?”
Indeed, while we’re playing dog catcher and catching them at their misdemeanors we need to take a good look at our own kennels.
As a great grandfather and grandfather I have a whole new set of children watching me closely and monitoring my words and actions. I know it and I expect it and I pray not to forget the responsibility it sets before me.
For what they see and hear they will NEVER FORGET.
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Psalm 32:8 "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye."
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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 Sunday 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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One day a father, trying to inspire his son to a more careful application to his school work and his household chores, said to him, “Son, do you know what Abraham Lincoln was doing when he was your age?”
“No sir,” quickly replied the boy,” but I know what he was doing when he was your age.”
Sometimes we adults play a game called LET’S JUMP ON THE TEENAGERS and we give them a hard time and sometimes they need to be called to task…but meanwhile we need to set an example that is equal to our instructions to them.
Another little boy stood in front of his father and he held in his hand a bad report card.
“Dad,” he said, “what do you think is responsible for this, heredity or environment?”
Indeed, while we’re playing dog catcher and catching them at their misdemeanors we need to take a good look at our own kennels.
As a great grandfather and grandfather I have a whole new set of children watching me closely and monitoring my words and actions. I know it and I expect it and I pray not to forget the responsibility it sets before me.
For what they see and hear they will NEVER FORGET.
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Psalm 32:8 "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye."
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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 Sunday 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, October 23, 2010
THE DEVIL HAS TWO PROBLEMS
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First, his home address is hell and second he does not know how to love.
And therein lies the whole rub.
Love is a positive discipline…not just an emotion. Hate, anger, sin all are negatives and worthy of darkness where hopefully they can be long lost and forgotten. They certainly do not need to be nurtured as if they are family.
Love gives to a charity without being asked and does a good deed when no one is looking. Love does not seek rewards …rather it seeks more and more opportunities to stay in practice.
Love as our Lord taught challenges us to be professionals in the art of caring and making the warmth of compassion a regular thing in both our heart and soul.
Indeed, if you and I want this 21st Century to be a good century to live in then we must be good enough for this century.
We must be honest not because being dishonest will land us in jail but rather because dishonesty defies God.
What am I talking about…Out of God’s gifts…make gifts to God.
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Matthew 5:16
"... let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven."
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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 Sunday 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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First, his home address is hell and second he does not know how to love.
And therein lies the whole rub.
Love is a positive discipline…not just an emotion. Hate, anger, sin all are negatives and worthy of darkness where hopefully they can be long lost and forgotten. They certainly do not need to be nurtured as if they are family.
Love gives to a charity without being asked and does a good deed when no one is looking. Love does not seek rewards …rather it seeks more and more opportunities to stay in practice.
Love as our Lord taught challenges us to be professionals in the art of caring and making the warmth of compassion a regular thing in both our heart and soul.
Indeed, if you and I want this 21st Century to be a good century to live in then we must be good enough for this century.
We must be honest not because being dishonest will land us in jail but rather because dishonesty defies God.
What am I talking about…Out of God’s gifts…make gifts to God.
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Matthew 5:16
"... let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven."
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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 Sunday Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
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Friday, October 22, 2010
GREED AND NEED
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Ralph Waldo Emerson put it this way, “It is pitiful the things by which we are rich…a matter of coins, coats and carpets, a little more or less, stone, wood or paint; the fashion of a cloak or hat; like the luck of the naked Indians, of whom one is proud of the possession of a glass bead or a red feather, and the rest miserable in the want of it.”
And we keep things in attics that we will never use again or need again or want again. Why? The question is easier to ask than to answer.
And I watched a sunrise and a sunset yesterday and it was free and it was glorious and what if we had to pay for it? Would we enjoy it more or less?
And it is such a thin line as to what we possess and what possesses us.
And yes…these words from Luke.
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Lk. 12:15 - "be on guard against every form of greed; life is not in possessions"
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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.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson put it this way, “It is pitiful the things by which we are rich…a matter of coins, coats and carpets, a little more or less, stone, wood or paint; the fashion of a cloak or hat; like the luck of the naked Indians, of whom one is proud of the possession of a glass bead or a red feather, and the rest miserable in the want of it.”
And we keep things in attics that we will never use again or need again or want again. Why? The question is easier to ask than to answer.
And I watched a sunrise and a sunset yesterday and it was free and it was glorious and what if we had to pay for it? Would we enjoy it more or less?
And it is such a thin line as to what we possess and what possesses us.
And yes…these words from Luke.
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Lk. 12:15 - "be on guard against every form of greed; life is not in possessions"
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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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Thursday, October 21, 2010
GOD’S GIFTS AND YOUR GIFT BACK
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.” Why? Because out of God’s gifts you have just made a gift for God.
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“For if you forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], your heavenly Father will also forgive you.” Matthew 6: 14
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
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the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.” Why? Because out of God’s gifts you have just made a gift for God.
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“For if you forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], your heavenly Father will also forgive you.” Matthew 6: 14
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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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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
THE GIFT OF LIKING PEOPLE
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Someone once said that God has really given men five gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and you. And this is why, YOU and ME need to work hard at liking the unlikable and loving the unlovable.
We all have walked into a room and having circulated about found a few folk who are not very likeable, maybe only one. They major in grim and grimace. They scowl. They may be just shy but they come across as antagonistic. And our feelings are negative and about to get out of hand.
What then to do?
Act as if they are likeable. Treat them as if they are loveable.
If you or I treat some folk like this badly, even if it is no more than just ignoring them…we will only feel more badly toward them.
If we do the good deed of continuing to speak to them, in trying to draw out some good part of them, we will find ourselves feeling less negative to them.
The very fact of positive Christian action will stir up the better part of us.
The more kinder part of us. The more loving part of us. Just as being negative will draw up all the negative parts of us.
It’s a training program, really. Going through positive motions until you more easily find the positive emotion.
Use your imagination? Are they angry because no one treats them well and the reason no one treats them well is because they are always angry. Be the first person that treats them well despite rather than because.
Favoritism! We all practice it. We like someone. We favor them. We don’t like someone. We don’t. This isn’t how Christ said it or meant it to be. The love He wants us to practice is unconditional.
How to do all of this?
Think diamonds. Think diamonds buried deep beneath the earth. Remember that to get them one has to dig deep. Same with some people.
Meet their grim with your grin if you have just met a sober side. Grim to grim won’t produce any positive results. Fact is if you are practicing the habit of always being nice to everyone the next thing you know other people will be in the habit of being nice to you.
Treat EVERYONE as if they are important; no exceptions. Because everyone is important, “God don’t make no junk.”
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Love one another with brotherly affection [as members of one family], giving precedence and showing honor to one another.
Romans 12: 10
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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.
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Someone once said that God has really given men five gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and you. And this is why, YOU and ME need to work hard at liking the unlikable and loving the unlovable.
We all have walked into a room and having circulated about found a few folk who are not very likeable, maybe only one. They major in grim and grimace. They scowl. They may be just shy but they come across as antagonistic. And our feelings are negative and about to get out of hand.
What then to do?
Act as if they are likeable. Treat them as if they are loveable.
If you or I treat some folk like this badly, even if it is no more than just ignoring them…we will only feel more badly toward them.
If we do the good deed of continuing to speak to them, in trying to draw out some good part of them, we will find ourselves feeling less negative to them.
The very fact of positive Christian action will stir up the better part of us.
The more kinder part of us. The more loving part of us. Just as being negative will draw up all the negative parts of us.
It’s a training program, really. Going through positive motions until you more easily find the positive emotion.
Use your imagination? Are they angry because no one treats them well and the reason no one treats them well is because they are always angry. Be the first person that treats them well despite rather than because.
Favoritism! We all practice it. We like someone. We favor them. We don’t like someone. We don’t. This isn’t how Christ said it or meant it to be. The love He wants us to practice is unconditional.
How to do all of this?
Think diamonds. Think diamonds buried deep beneath the earth. Remember that to get them one has to dig deep. Same with some people.
Meet their grim with your grin if you have just met a sober side. Grim to grim won’t produce any positive results. Fact is if you are practicing the habit of always being nice to everyone the next thing you know other people will be in the habit of being nice to you.
Treat EVERYONE as if they are important; no exceptions. Because everyone is important, “God don’t make no junk.”
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Love one another with brotherly affection [as members of one family], giving precedence and showing honor to one another.
Romans 12: 10
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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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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
GOD KNOWS BEST OR YOU KNOW BEST…WHICH IS IT?
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It has been many many decades since I saw a stage play called GREEN PASTURES but I have never forgotten it. In this presentation God is kind of like a master chef at a gigantic fish fry…a cosmic bellhop ready to respond to every summons..
But even then, I thought to myself, “Such a God would not truly be a loving God.
If all I had to do was to say, “God, let it rain!”,,,and it rained; or “God let the sun shine!”,,,and the sun shone; or “God, let Joe die and Mike live!”,,,if by prayer I had literally the power of life, death and creation…God would not be a God of love but a foolish God listening to a mortal man who could not in his wildest dreams understand the complexities of time and destiny.
And I thought then and I certainly know now that such a God would not be God but something I had conjured up…and a poor conjuring at that.
I want the Biblical God. I want a God who is kind but also just, who listens to my prayers but does not always say “Yes” because in the long run his “No” will make the ultimate sense.
The Apostle Paul (Moffett translation) writes, “Trouble produces endurance, endurance produces character and character produces hope.”
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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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It has been many many decades since I saw a stage play called GREEN PASTURES but I have never forgotten it. In this presentation God is kind of like a master chef at a gigantic fish fry…a cosmic bellhop ready to respond to every summons..
But even then, I thought to myself, “Such a God would not truly be a loving God.
If all I had to do was to say, “God, let it rain!”,,,and it rained; or “God let the sun shine!”,,,and the sun shone; or “God, let Joe die and Mike live!”,,,if by prayer I had literally the power of life, death and creation…God would not be a God of love but a foolish God listening to a mortal man who could not in his wildest dreams understand the complexities of time and destiny.
And I thought then and I certainly know now that such a God would not be God but something I had conjured up…and a poor conjuring at that.
I want the Biblical God. I want a God who is kind but also just, who listens to my prayers but does not always say “Yes” because in the long run his “No” will make the ultimate sense.
The Apostle Paul (Moffett translation) writes, “Trouble produces endurance, endurance produces character and character produces hope.”
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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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Monday, October 18, 2010
ROLE REVERSAL
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The children were not cooperating.
They just were not in the mood to put on their coats and gloves with any speed.
In fact, one of the children had gone back to her room to get something and seemed in no particular hurry to return. Those remaining were running around their mother in circles while they played a game of tag.
They would be late and the husband was fuming.
As he came down the stairs he looked at the chaos and said to his wife, “Honey, why are you just standing there? We are never going to get out of here.”
She looked at him, got a special look on her face and replied, “Here, “ and handed him the children coats and gloves, “I’m giving you the privilege of putting the children into their coats while I go outside and honk on the horn.”
We can major in blindness and minor in understanding.
We can be frozen in one point of view.
We see things clearly from our own way of thinking and ignore where the other person is…whatever the problem…and though this story is a story of husband blindness, needless to say wives can suffer from the same malady and children toward their parents, and all human relationships really.
And yes, hopefully, reading this short story maybe some of the readers will see themselves…yesterday, last week, all the time…and get in their wife’s or husbands frame of reference…or that of a stranger or a friend…and…well, things can change and quite often they really need to…for it is such a grand old world when we think compassionately and lovingly and are less centered on ourselves.
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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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The children were not cooperating.
They just were not in the mood to put on their coats and gloves with any speed.
In fact, one of the children had gone back to her room to get something and seemed in no particular hurry to return. Those remaining were running around their mother in circles while they played a game of tag.
They would be late and the husband was fuming.
As he came down the stairs he looked at the chaos and said to his wife, “Honey, why are you just standing there? We are never going to get out of here.”
She looked at him, got a special look on her face and replied, “Here, “ and handed him the children coats and gloves, “I’m giving you the privilege of putting the children into their coats while I go outside and honk on the horn.”
We can major in blindness and minor in understanding.
We can be frozen in one point of view.
We see things clearly from our own way of thinking and ignore where the other person is…whatever the problem…and though this story is a story of husband blindness, needless to say wives can suffer from the same malady and children toward their parents, and all human relationships really.
And yes, hopefully, reading this short story maybe some of the readers will see themselves…yesterday, last week, all the time…and get in their wife’s or husbands frame of reference…or that of a stranger or a friend…and…well, things can change and quite often they really need to…for it is such a grand old world when we think compassionately and lovingly and are less centered on ourselves.
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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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Sunday, October 17, 2010
AND THE SCIENTIST SAID…
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Several years ago some scientist got downright scientific about prayer.
They weren’t necessarily trying to prove that prayer works.
The fact of the matter was that several mightily hoped that their double blind study would prove it didn’t.
At any rate, at the Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, all cardiac patients admitted were sorted into two groups.
There were 990 patients in the test and for 28 days half were prayed for and half were not prayed for as they tested the effectiveness of intercessory prayer. The patients did not know that the test was even being conducted. The staff did not know.
The 75 people doing the praying, whose only qualification was that they believed in God and that He is responsive to prayers for healing made on behalf of the sick, did not know the patients.
And then the results came in.
Those prayed for had fared 11% better than those not prayed for.
The double blind study had proved that intercessory prayer is an effective part of treatment for the ill. Reluctantly all the doctor agreed, but for some it was just too much to draw a natural conclusion from the results.
Almost petulantly the study reads that some of the doctors were not prepared to conclude that the obvious conclusion “proved the existence of God.”
(Archives of Internal Medicine/vol. 159 No 19, October 25, 1999)
A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
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"The Lord has heard my supplication; the Lord receives my prayer."
Psalm 6: 9
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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.
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Several years ago some scientist got downright scientific about prayer.
They weren’t necessarily trying to prove that prayer works.
The fact of the matter was that several mightily hoped that their double blind study would prove it didn’t.
At any rate, at the Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, all cardiac patients admitted were sorted into two groups.
There were 990 patients in the test and for 28 days half were prayed for and half were not prayed for as they tested the effectiveness of intercessory prayer. The patients did not know that the test was even being conducted. The staff did not know.
The 75 people doing the praying, whose only qualification was that they believed in God and that He is responsive to prayers for healing made on behalf of the sick, did not know the patients.
And then the results came in.
Those prayed for had fared 11% better than those not prayed for.
The double blind study had proved that intercessory prayer is an effective part of treatment for the ill. Reluctantly all the doctor agreed, but for some it was just too much to draw a natural conclusion from the results.
Almost petulantly the study reads that some of the doctors were not prepared to conclude that the obvious conclusion “proved the existence of God.”
(Archives of Internal Medicine/vol. 159 No 19, October 25, 1999)
A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
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"The Lord has heard my supplication; the Lord receives my prayer."
Psalm 6: 9
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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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Saturday, October 16, 2010
PRAYER HAS NO LIMITATIONS
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Edward Day, minister and author of the book “An autobiography of Prayer” told this story.
“Ten years ago, a beloved physician and friend told me that I had a heart block and that my heart was greatly enlarged. His conclusions were the results of a careful examination by himself and experts with the aid of the electrocardiograph and other reliable tests. His warning was “slow down.” Two years later, the examinations, diagnosis and prescriptions were the same.
“However, the prescription could no longer be taken because of adverse reactions.
What seemed to me to be the clear call of God took me into labors that were even more grueling than those from which I had been warned: sixteen to eighteen hours a day, journeying up and down the land bearing almost intolerable burdens in the effort to reach un-awakened masses with the message of the Lord. Keeping schedules that would exhaust much younger men; walking the streets at night or sitting in hotel lobbies in lieu of unavailable hotel rooms, carrying two men’s work, contending with opposition and indifference and misunderstandings that were heart-breaking.
“From the viewpoint of medical science, it was reckless folly. But God had called and was still calling. What else could I do? Here, however is the surprising thing. Recent tests, of the most thorough kind, electrocardiograph, heart heliograph, etc., all by a highly competent physician and by specialists whom he had enlisted, revealed there is no sign of heart block and the heart is perfectly normal in size.
“Do you wonder at my belief, ‘It is of God.
Why do we pray? We pray because we are human and because our greatest moments of intelligence are no more than a wisp of wind before the Omniscience of God.
We pray because we have many more questions than answers and therefore it seems to make sense to go to the source rather than act like a source.
We pray because Jesus told us to and
when it comes to Jesus, we try to do what we have been told.
We pray because we learned a long time
ago that prayer can save a life.
In more ways than one.
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“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”
—Philippians 4:6
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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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Edward Day, minister and author of the book “An autobiography of Prayer” told this story.
“Ten years ago, a beloved physician and friend told me that I had a heart block and that my heart was greatly enlarged. His conclusions were the results of a careful examination by himself and experts with the aid of the electrocardiograph and other reliable tests. His warning was “slow down.” Two years later, the examinations, diagnosis and prescriptions were the same.
“However, the prescription could no longer be taken because of adverse reactions.
What seemed to me to be the clear call of God took me into labors that were even more grueling than those from which I had been warned: sixteen to eighteen hours a day, journeying up and down the land bearing almost intolerable burdens in the effort to reach un-awakened masses with the message of the Lord. Keeping schedules that would exhaust much younger men; walking the streets at night or sitting in hotel lobbies in lieu of unavailable hotel rooms, carrying two men’s work, contending with opposition and indifference and misunderstandings that were heart-breaking.
“From the viewpoint of medical science, it was reckless folly. But God had called and was still calling. What else could I do? Here, however is the surprising thing. Recent tests, of the most thorough kind, electrocardiograph, heart heliograph, etc., all by a highly competent physician and by specialists whom he had enlisted, revealed there is no sign of heart block and the heart is perfectly normal in size.
“Do you wonder at my belief, ‘It is of God.
Why do we pray? We pray because we are human and because our greatest moments of intelligence are no more than a wisp of wind before the Omniscience of God.
We pray because we have many more questions than answers and therefore it seems to make sense to go to the source rather than act like a source.
We pray because Jesus told us to and
when it comes to Jesus, we try to do what we have been told.
We pray because we learned a long time
ago that prayer can save a life.
In more ways than one.
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“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”
—Philippians 4:6
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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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Friday, October 15, 2010
HATE CAN CREATE PARALYSIS OF THE SOUL
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There is a story told about Leonardo de Vinci, the great creator of the magnificent painting THE LAST SUPPSER.
Just before he began his epic work in the Sistine chapel, he had a violent quarrel with a fellow painter. In a rage he decided to take revenge by making the face of this painter the model for the face of Judas.
He did so and everyone could easily recognize the likeness.
But then it happened.
As he sought to paint the face of Christ he couldn’t.
Try as he might, each stroke was one more stroke of waste and each effort as effort in vain. Finally, he got the message.
The only way to capture the countenance of Christ was to paint out the face of Judas.
As soon as he did he was able to produce the masterpiece that endures to this day. This is you and I, my friends.
We cannot mirror the life of Christ if we hate another human being...and folk protest sometimes and say "But I don't really hate anyone"...and the reply must be "Then why are you so hateful to he or she???"
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(Luk 6:27) “But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.”
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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There is a story told about Leonardo de Vinci, the great creator of the magnificent painting THE LAST SUPPSER.
Just before he began his epic work in the Sistine chapel, he had a violent quarrel with a fellow painter. In a rage he decided to take revenge by making the face of this painter the model for the face of Judas.
He did so and everyone could easily recognize the likeness.
But then it happened.
As he sought to paint the face of Christ he couldn’t.
Try as he might, each stroke was one more stroke of waste and each effort as effort in vain. Finally, he got the message.
The only way to capture the countenance of Christ was to paint out the face of Judas.
As soon as he did he was able to produce the masterpiece that endures to this day. This is you and I, my friends.
We cannot mirror the life of Christ if we hate another human being...and folk protest sometimes and say "But I don't really hate anyone"...and the reply must be "Then why are you so hateful to he or she???"
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(Luk 6:27) “But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.”
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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Thursday, October 14, 2010
SO WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST CHANGE?
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There was a man whose name was Giovanni Francesco Bernardone.
He was usually deep in his cups, drunk as a fool and so great a playboy that all of his friends used to call him “The King of the Revelers.”
One night during a feast given in is honor he wandered off, gave his life to Christ and the world had a St. Francis of Assisi..
Starr Daily was a thief, a liar and a bum.
He had been in more jails than most people have been in grocery stores.
He stood before a judge one day who as he sentenced him and said, “I don’t know what to do with you, and I know sending you back to jail isn’t going to help. You’re just a lost cause, a hopeless case.”
Starr Daily only spat out a curse and filled the room with his defiance.
Starr Daily went on to become one of Washington D.C’s most respected reporters.
His name was Saul and he will always be remembered as the man who stoned Stephen…but infinitely more than that as he who made a monumental change and became the Apostle Paul
Now, your name is not Starr Daily or Giovanni Francesco Bernardone or Saul of Tarsu.s
More than likely you are Sam at the local department store, or Sally at home and holding down another job just down the street or Bill or Mary of Real Estate or…
Within your life are moods and manners and morals that should be changed. And some of you have changed or are in the midst of changing or will change for the better…maybe as soon as today or tomorrow.
Formed, deformed and reformed. That describes all of us if we have taken Christ into our hearts and are busy becoming a new person.
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Paul put it well when he wrote, “
Therefore work out your own salvation, for it is God which worketh in you.”
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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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There was a man whose name was Giovanni Francesco Bernardone.
He was usually deep in his cups, drunk as a fool and so great a playboy that all of his friends used to call him “The King of the Revelers.”
One night during a feast given in is honor he wandered off, gave his life to Christ and the world had a St. Francis of Assisi..
Starr Daily was a thief, a liar and a bum.
He had been in more jails than most people have been in grocery stores.
He stood before a judge one day who as he sentenced him and said, “I don’t know what to do with you, and I know sending you back to jail isn’t going to help. You’re just a lost cause, a hopeless case.”
Starr Daily only spat out a curse and filled the room with his defiance.
Starr Daily went on to become one of Washington D.C’s most respected reporters.
His name was Saul and he will always be remembered as the man who stoned Stephen…but infinitely more than that as he who made a monumental change and became the Apostle Paul
Now, your name is not Starr Daily or Giovanni Francesco Bernardone or Saul of Tarsu.s
More than likely you are Sam at the local department store, or Sally at home and holding down another job just down the street or Bill or Mary of Real Estate or…
Within your life are moods and manners and morals that should be changed. And some of you have changed or are in the midst of changing or will change for the better…maybe as soon as today or tomorrow.
Formed, deformed and reformed. That describes all of us if we have taken Christ into our hearts and are busy becoming a new person.
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Paul put it well when he wrote, “
Therefore work out your own salvation, for it is God which worketh in you.”
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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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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
WIDEN YOUR INTEREST…WIDEN YOUR LIFE
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In Charles Darwin’s book, “Life and Letters” he tells of how in his younger days he loved music, art and literature.
He goes on to say he had a real talent for them and derived great delight in their pursuit.
But then he says, “Because of my one sided concentration on scientific calculations, I reached the point where I could not endure to read a line of poetry, where even Shakespeare became nauseatingly dull.
If I had my life to live over again, I would make it a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once each week…just to keep the faculty alive.”
If you do not use it you loose it.
If you were to tie your arm to your side and not use it for too long a time it would atrophy and become useless.
If you sat all day…day after day…and never rose from your chair one day you would not be able to rise from that chair.
The same is true of your memory and your mind and the exercising of your soul.
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“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” (Romans 12:2)
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
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In Charles Darwin’s book, “Life and Letters” he tells of how in his younger days he loved music, art and literature.
He goes on to say he had a real talent for them and derived great delight in their pursuit.
But then he says, “Because of my one sided concentration on scientific calculations, I reached the point where I could not endure to read a line of poetry, where even Shakespeare became nauseatingly dull.
If I had my life to live over again, I would make it a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once each week…just to keep the faculty alive.”
If you do not use it you loose it.
If you were to tie your arm to your side and not use it for too long a time it would atrophy and become useless.
If you sat all day…day after day…and never rose from your chair one day you would not be able to rise from that chair.
The same is true of your memory and your mind and the exercising of your soul.
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“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” (Romans 12:2)
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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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
A DOOR A SENSE OF HUMOR OPENED
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This really happened. It was a number of years ago but it really happened.
An evangelist was visiting a manufacturing plant where he would be holding a short devotional service at lunch time (this used to happen more often). It would be a short service but the company and certainly the preacher felt it was good for those who would attend.
As he walked through the plant the Superintendent pointed to one man said, “He definitely won’t be attending. He’s an antitheist.”
So…the preacher walked over to the man and the first words out of his mouth were, “We’ve got a lot to be thankful.”
Before the man was able to reply the preacher continued.
“Look at this way. God really does know what he is doing. Take your nose for example. If anyone else but God had made it, he might have put it on upside down. Then when it rained you’d drown. Or if you didn’t drown… when you sneezed you’d blow your head off.”
The preacher then turned on his heels and walked away.
The poor fellow was in such a state of shock he decided to go the lunch time service to see what else that crazy preacher had to say.
To make a long story short, he was eventually converted to Christ.
And…yes…you never know what doors a sense of humor will open up.
Think about it…maybe celebrate a Holy Humor Sunday.
Grin for God week to show the world how Christians really are happy in a new and special way.
The thought is Biblical you know. Remember that when the Jews came back from captivity in Babylon the following took place “Then we were filled with laughter, and we sang happy sons. Then the other nations said, “The Lord has done great things for them.” Psalms 126:2
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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
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http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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This really happened. It was a number of years ago but it really happened.
An evangelist was visiting a manufacturing plant where he would be holding a short devotional service at lunch time (this used to happen more often). It would be a short service but the company and certainly the preacher felt it was good for those who would attend.
As he walked through the plant the Superintendent pointed to one man said, “He definitely won’t be attending. He’s an antitheist.”
So…the preacher walked over to the man and the first words out of his mouth were, “We’ve got a lot to be thankful.”
Before the man was able to reply the preacher continued.
“Look at this way. God really does know what he is doing. Take your nose for example. If anyone else but God had made it, he might have put it on upside down. Then when it rained you’d drown. Or if you didn’t drown… when you sneezed you’d blow your head off.”
The preacher then turned on his heels and walked away.
The poor fellow was in such a state of shock he decided to go the lunch time service to see what else that crazy preacher had to say.
To make a long story short, he was eventually converted to Christ.
And…yes…you never know what doors a sense of humor will open up.
Think about it…maybe celebrate a Holy Humor Sunday.
Grin for God week to show the world how Christians really are happy in a new and special way.
The thought is Biblical you know. Remember that when the Jews came back from captivity in Babylon the following took place “Then we were filled with laughter, and we sang happy sons. Then the other nations said, “The Lord has done great things for them.” Psalms 126:2
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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
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Monday, October 11, 2010
I’LL BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW
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Did you know…
That John Calvin, the great writer of the stern Presbyterian Theology had a reputation as a wit.
Or that Dwight L. Moody, one of the greatest evangelist in America could have a fortune as a comedian.
And that Martin Luther once said, “I do not want to go to heaven if God does not understand a good joke.”
Plus, it is interesting to note that Albert Sweitzer, the great medical doctor is known for his humanitarianism. He is not as well known as a man with a great sense of humor.
Indeed, one day, as he and his wife were sitting down to dinner, he in a sepulchral manner said, “You know my dear. We are going to have to stop making up jokes. We are getting older and most become serious…”
At this point he could continue no longer as both broke out in laughter.
And what of one of our founding fathers, Ben Franklin. It has often been jokingly said that one of the reasons he was not asked to write the Declaration of Independence, was because he might attach a couple of jokes.
Indeed, if you or I can laugh at ourselves…now we are truly blessed…for there is no better way to rid ourselves of pomposity when needed.
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“He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh…” Psalm 2:4
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.” Proverbs 17:22
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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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Did you know…
That John Calvin, the great writer of the stern Presbyterian Theology had a reputation as a wit.
Or that Dwight L. Moody, one of the greatest evangelist in America could have a fortune as a comedian.
And that Martin Luther once said, “I do not want to go to heaven if God does not understand a good joke.”
Plus, it is interesting to note that Albert Sweitzer, the great medical doctor is known for his humanitarianism. He is not as well known as a man with a great sense of humor.
Indeed, one day, as he and his wife were sitting down to dinner, he in a sepulchral manner said, “You know my dear. We are going to have to stop making up jokes. We are getting older and most become serious…”
At this point he could continue no longer as both broke out in laughter.
And what of one of our founding fathers, Ben Franklin. It has often been jokingly said that one of the reasons he was not asked to write the Declaration of Independence, was because he might attach a couple of jokes.
Indeed, if you or I can laugh at ourselves…now we are truly blessed…for there is no better way to rid ourselves of pomposity when needed.
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“He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh…” Psalm 2:4
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.” Proverbs 17:22
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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, October 10, 2010
FEAR …FEAR…FEAR…FEAR…FEAR…FEAR…FEAR…COURAGE…COURAGE…COURAGE…COURAGE…COURAGE
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At Cornell University a number of years ago, an experiment was conducted with interesting and significant consequences.
Two doctors named Little and Hart tied a piece of wire around the leg of a normal sheep in the midst of other sheep.
Then at regular intervals they would cause the leg to twitch by sending an electric shock through it.
The sheep’s behavior remained normal. He ate well, slept well, acted quite nicely; twitching appendage and all.
Then the scientisst did something else. They began to ring a bell 10 second before they administered the shock.
To alternate the irritation sometimes they would ring the bell and not administer the shock.
Within a very short period of time the sheep began to show a definite anxiety neurosis. His eating habits went from bad to worse.
He took to avoiding contact with other sheep. He became highly nervous and agitated.
In short, the experimental sheep began to be a living example of what will happen if someone, be it sheep or shepherd, lives in constant expectation of the worse…but not sure “if” or “when” IT is going to happen.
And this is you and meet and all our fellowmen. And some earn their PHD in worry. A new day comes and some meet the new day with comments such as, “This is going to be a terrible day, I know it. I just feel it.” “We’ve planned a picnic and I know it is going to rain.” “The children are going to be a terror today.”
And I remember reading of a woman who was so afraid of germs she washed her hands hundreds of times a day with strong disinfectant.
Then there was the man in Philadelphia who starved to death in a house with no food in the kitchen but $300,000 stuffed in a mattress. He had been terribly afraid of dying old and broke.
And pray and handle their fears and for others their fears handle them.
And some feel the hand of their God in their own hand.
And some wander often in the midst of some universal truths…and learn from them…and live life with more victories of the spirit than defeat.
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.”
That the greatest fears we have are the fears we need to face head on rather than run from them. Never let your fear grow bigger than your faith. For yes I have said it before and I say it again, courage is not the absence of fear but the mastery of it.
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
So learn from the stars…all around them is darkness but they never notice…they are too busy making light.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Or the old sailor of several centuries ago who when asked why he continued to go to sea in those unsafe wooded ships replied “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
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“Fear not, for I am with you;
be not dismayed, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you, I will help you,
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
For I, the LORD your God,
hold your right hand;
it is I who say to you, “Fear not,
I am the one who helps you.”
—Isaiah 41:10,13
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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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At Cornell University a number of years ago, an experiment was conducted with interesting and significant consequences.
Two doctors named Little and Hart tied a piece of wire around the leg of a normal sheep in the midst of other sheep.
Then at regular intervals they would cause the leg to twitch by sending an electric shock through it.
The sheep’s behavior remained normal. He ate well, slept well, acted quite nicely; twitching appendage and all.
Then the scientisst did something else. They began to ring a bell 10 second before they administered the shock.
To alternate the irritation sometimes they would ring the bell and not administer the shock.
Within a very short period of time the sheep began to show a definite anxiety neurosis. His eating habits went from bad to worse.
He took to avoiding contact with other sheep. He became highly nervous and agitated.
In short, the experimental sheep began to be a living example of what will happen if someone, be it sheep or shepherd, lives in constant expectation of the worse…but not sure “if” or “when” IT is going to happen.
And this is you and meet and all our fellowmen. And some earn their PHD in worry. A new day comes and some meet the new day with comments such as, “This is going to be a terrible day, I know it. I just feel it.” “We’ve planned a picnic and I know it is going to rain.” “The children are going to be a terror today.”
And I remember reading of a woman who was so afraid of germs she washed her hands hundreds of times a day with strong disinfectant.
Then there was the man in Philadelphia who starved to death in a house with no food in the kitchen but $300,000 stuffed in a mattress. He had been terribly afraid of dying old and broke.
And pray and handle their fears and for others their fears handle them.
And some feel the hand of their God in their own hand.
And some wander often in the midst of some universal truths…and learn from them…and live life with more victories of the spirit than defeat.
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.”
That the greatest fears we have are the fears we need to face head on rather than run from them. Never let your fear grow bigger than your faith. For yes I have said it before and I say it again, courage is not the absence of fear but the mastery of it.
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
So learn from the stars…all around them is darkness but they never notice…they are too busy making light.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Or the old sailor of several centuries ago who when asked why he continued to go to sea in those unsafe wooded ships replied “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
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“Fear not, for I am with you;
be not dismayed, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you, I will help you,
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
For I, the LORD your God,
hold your right hand;
it is I who say to you, “Fear not,
I am the one who helps you.”
—Isaiah 41:10,13
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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, October 9, 2010
WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT IS YOUR NAME WORTH
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Robert E. Lee was a gentleman, a statesman, a grand old man.
After the war, he was approached by the mangers of the infamous Louisiana Lottery. He sat in an old rocking chair, crutches at his side and listened to their proposition.
He couldn’t believe his ears; he asked them to repeat it, thinking that he couldn’t have heard them right.
They said they wanted no money from him; all they wanted was the use of his name, and for that they would make him rich.
Lee straightened up in his chair, buttoned his old grey tunic about him and thundered, “Gentlemen, I lost my home in the war. Lost my fortune in the war. I lost everything in the war except my name. My name is not for sale, and if you fellows don’t get out of here I’ll break this crutch over your heads.”
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Proverbs 22:1 "A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold."
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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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Robert E. Lee was a gentleman, a statesman, a grand old man.
After the war, he was approached by the mangers of the infamous Louisiana Lottery. He sat in an old rocking chair, crutches at his side and listened to their proposition.
He couldn’t believe his ears; he asked them to repeat it, thinking that he couldn’t have heard them right.
They said they wanted no money from him; all they wanted was the use of his name, and for that they would make him rich.
Lee straightened up in his chair, buttoned his old grey tunic about him and thundered, “Gentlemen, I lost my home in the war. Lost my fortune in the war. I lost everything in the war except my name. My name is not for sale, and if you fellows don’t get out of here I’ll break this crutch over your heads.”
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Proverbs 22:1 "A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold."
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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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Friday, October 8, 2010
DON’T WASTE YOUR ANGER!
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Anger can be a powerful, constructive, spiritual dedicated thing.
Righteous indignation can move mountains.
John Howard got mad at the stinking, filthy jails of his time, and he made them clean.
William Lloyd Garrison got mad “at the face of sorrow” which was the face of slavery in our land, and he made the black man free.
Florence Nightingale was not always a gentle angel of mercy.
She was often a hothouse of emotion…a stubborn, high tempered woman who with the call of God inside her, hounded and bullied government officials into providing decent treatment for the wounded and the dying, until they came to tremble at the mention of her name.
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'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.” Revelation 3:16
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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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Anger can be a powerful, constructive, spiritual dedicated thing.
Righteous indignation can move mountains.
John Howard got mad at the stinking, filthy jails of his time, and he made them clean.
William Lloyd Garrison got mad “at the face of sorrow” which was the face of slavery in our land, and he made the black man free.
Florence Nightingale was not always a gentle angel of mercy.
She was often a hothouse of emotion…a stubborn, high tempered woman who with the call of God inside her, hounded and bullied government officials into providing decent treatment for the wounded and the dying, until they came to tremble at the mention of her name.
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'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.” Revelation 3:16
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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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Thursday, October 7, 2010
HALFIES
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It is rather sad but it is an apt description of some…I do not name a number or a percentage.
Half read books, half mowed lawns, half painted fences or houses or…, half finished projects, half lived lives.
And yes…To drift is to go but never glow. They are not Sunny Dawsey…and who was Sunny Dawsey.
He was a man I met almost 50 years ago but have never forgotten. I drove by where he used to live the other day and it was like it was almost yesterday when he spoke to the people of my church and inspired them in a way few people could.
You see, Sunny began to be affected by severe arthritis at the age of 7. By the time he was in his teens he was in a wheel chair. By the time I met him and had him come to my church to speak more than once he was completely paralyzed in an S position from the chin down.
Over and over again he would expand on the basic theme by which he lived, “I know God could make me completely well if he wanted to, but I figure this is God’s way of letting me help people, and if this is the way he wants it, it’s alright with me.”
He had little boy dreams and older boy dreams and then a nightmare came to visit. He could have given up and left all his dreams half done or undone…but that was not Sunny.
And yes it does say something to us…shouts it really…give our all to whatever it is we start and finish it right and let right govern our deeds …otherwise we choose to live in a world of “halfies” which is what I call unfinished tasks..so depressing and defeating and a terrible waste of time and opportunity.,
If anyone had a reason to give up…it was Sunny…but he was determined to give his all…even so much of his all…was gone.
Like all of us he dreamed he would make his impact on life…and he made his impact on life…because he gave all of everything he had left.
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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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It is rather sad but it is an apt description of some…I do not name a number or a percentage.
Half read books, half mowed lawns, half painted fences or houses or…, half finished projects, half lived lives.
And yes…To drift is to go but never glow. They are not Sunny Dawsey…and who was Sunny Dawsey.
He was a man I met almost 50 years ago but have never forgotten. I drove by where he used to live the other day and it was like it was almost yesterday when he spoke to the people of my church and inspired them in a way few people could.
You see, Sunny began to be affected by severe arthritis at the age of 7. By the time he was in his teens he was in a wheel chair. By the time I met him and had him come to my church to speak more than once he was completely paralyzed in an S position from the chin down.
Over and over again he would expand on the basic theme by which he lived, “I know God could make me completely well if he wanted to, but I figure this is God’s way of letting me help people, and if this is the way he wants it, it’s alright with me.”
He had little boy dreams and older boy dreams and then a nightmare came to visit. He could have given up and left all his dreams half done or undone…but that was not Sunny.
And yes it does say something to us…shouts it really…give our all to whatever it is we start and finish it right and let right govern our deeds …otherwise we choose to live in a world of “halfies” which is what I call unfinished tasks..so depressing and defeating and a terrible waste of time and opportunity.,
If anyone had a reason to give up…it was Sunny…but he was determined to give his all…even so much of his all…was gone.
Like all of us he dreamed he would make his impact on life…and he made his impact on life…because he gave all of everything he had left.
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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
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
YOU WOULD IF YOU COULD BUT YOU CAN’T OR YOU WON’T?
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His name was Edward Gibbons. He was an invalid who could only go to school for a few months out of a year. He was in a constant state of recovery and weakness was his daily bread. For 23 years he worked on a book.
The name of the book was THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
When he finally finished it he wrote the following, “It is the night of the 27th of June, 1887 and I have just written the last line concerning the rise and fall of the city of Rome.”
He certainly is remembered for this monumental work but he is just as well remembered as a man who started something and did not quit until he finished it.
How is your staying power recently?
The world if full of those with dreams that are giants and deeds that are midgets.
They dream of being a candle burning bright to fill the night with light.
They hardly make it to being a match that briefly burst into incandescent and then rapidly fades away.
The famous artist-philosopher, John Ruskin, once used an interesting experiment to cull the vitally interested from the mildly curious.
He was to begin a lecture course on a certain Tuesday and on the said night in question when a rather large crowd arrived there was a notice on the door which read, “Meeting postponed, it will be held next week at the same time.” The next week about half the number showed up and there was an identical notice tacked to the door.” One more week went by with the same notice.
Finally, he stood in the doorway before a very small group of people and said, “I think the class is sufficiently culled and winnowed to get down to work.”
Persevere. Never give up. Never quit. Beat out adversity with stick-to-itiveness and you will be one in a million…but what you have proved and improved on in spirit will be priceless.
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“…we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;)perseverance, character; and character, hope” Romans 5:,4,3
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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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His name was Edward Gibbons. He was an invalid who could only go to school for a few months out of a year. He was in a constant state of recovery and weakness was his daily bread. For 23 years he worked on a book.
The name of the book was THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
When he finally finished it he wrote the following, “It is the night of the 27th of June, 1887 and I have just written the last line concerning the rise and fall of the city of Rome.”
He certainly is remembered for this monumental work but he is just as well remembered as a man who started something and did not quit until he finished it.
How is your staying power recently?
The world if full of those with dreams that are giants and deeds that are midgets.
They dream of being a candle burning bright to fill the night with light.
They hardly make it to being a match that briefly burst into incandescent and then rapidly fades away.
The famous artist-philosopher, John Ruskin, once used an interesting experiment to cull the vitally interested from the mildly curious.
He was to begin a lecture course on a certain Tuesday and on the said night in question when a rather large crowd arrived there was a notice on the door which read, “Meeting postponed, it will be held next week at the same time.” The next week about half the number showed up and there was an identical notice tacked to the door.” One more week went by with the same notice.
Finally, he stood in the doorway before a very small group of people and said, “I think the class is sufficiently culled and winnowed to get down to work.”
Persevere. Never give up. Never quit. Beat out adversity with stick-to-itiveness and you will be one in a million…but what you have proved and improved on in spirit will be priceless.
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“…we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;)perseverance, character; and character, hope” Romans 5:,4,3
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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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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
MOUNTAINS OUT OF MOLEHILLS OR MOLEHILLS OUT OF MOUNTAINS
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Take a piece of wax, some meat, some sand, some clay, some wood shavings and thro them all into the fire.
Let us then see how they react.
One instantly melts, one starts frying, one hardens, one dries up and one blazes.
And yet think about it…every one of them is acted on by the same force.
Just so, under identical influences of circumstance and environment, one person becomes weaker, one becomes stronger, another withers away.
So then it seems the conclusion may be drawn that it is not always what happens in life so much as who it happens to.
Some people make mountains out of molehills and some have that majestic quality of making molehills out of mountains.
One of the hardest things to achieve, when anxiety comes to call, is that balance between uncontrolled hysteria and unrealistic self-control.
The Bible refers to it as “the peace that passeth understanding.” And this is what, when the walls come crashing down, Christ can bring. Control in the midst of uncontrol.
The cause of our anxiety may not go away. The pain may still be very real. But we are not the same person we were before we said and meant, “Here am I, Lord, take me.”
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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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Take a piece of wax, some meat, some sand, some clay, some wood shavings and thro them all into the fire.
Let us then see how they react.
One instantly melts, one starts frying, one hardens, one dries up and one blazes.
And yet think about it…every one of them is acted on by the same force.
Just so, under identical influences of circumstance and environment, one person becomes weaker, one becomes stronger, another withers away.
So then it seems the conclusion may be drawn that it is not always what happens in life so much as who it happens to.
Some people make mountains out of molehills and some have that majestic quality of making molehills out of mountains.
One of the hardest things to achieve, when anxiety comes to call, is that balance between uncontrolled hysteria and unrealistic self-control.
The Bible refers to it as “the peace that passeth understanding.” And this is what, when the walls come crashing down, Christ can bring. Control in the midst of uncontrol.
The cause of our anxiety may not go away. The pain may still be very real. But we are not the same person we were before we said and meant, “Here am I, Lord, take me.”
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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, October 4, 2010
PATIENCE
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There was a sheep herder in Indiana who was in love with common sense, patience and a continuing search for understanding people. He had fine tuned these gifts in a way of life that should have earned him a prize.
But he had a problem. He was losing both sheep and sleep.
The dogs of the neighborhood had declared unqualified war on his herd and almost every morning he would find one or more sheep maimed or dead.
Instead of countering with fences, bells, lawsuits or shot-guns he buried his anger, resurrected love, patience and common sense and began to give every neighbor’s child a pet lamb and ram.
Before long his neighbors had flocks and began to keep sharp watch on their family dogs.
The sheep raiser lost no more sheep and also lost no friends.
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By your steadfastness and patient endurance you shall win the true life of your souls.
Luke 21: 19
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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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There was a sheep herder in Indiana who was in love with common sense, patience and a continuing search for understanding people. He had fine tuned these gifts in a way of life that should have earned him a prize.
But he had a problem. He was losing both sheep and sleep.
The dogs of the neighborhood had declared unqualified war on his herd and almost every morning he would find one or more sheep maimed or dead.
Instead of countering with fences, bells, lawsuits or shot-guns he buried his anger, resurrected love, patience and common sense and began to give every neighbor’s child a pet lamb and ram.
Before long his neighbors had flocks and began to keep sharp watch on their family dogs.
The sheep raiser lost no more sheep and also lost no friends.
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By your steadfastness and patient endurance you shall win the true life of your souls.
Luke 21: 19
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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, October 3, 2010
FRAGILE EGOS over a carpet?
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In the 19th century Gilbert and Sullivan were the equivalent of today’s rock stars.
The comic operas they wrote captured the music world and audiences all over the world flocked to appreciate their outlandish lyrics and sprightly music. .
Among their greatest and best known; H.MS. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikdao. They served up laughter and philosophy in an entertaining package and had the world in the palm of their hands.
Their talents were unbelievable and they were destined to work together in joyful harmony for the rest of their lives.
However, it was not to be.
Their fragile egos were such that soon they were standing at opposite ends of the stage so they wouldn’t have to see each other.
It all started because one time early in their years they bought a theatre and Sullivan ordered a new carpet which Gilbert thought to expensive.
They grew red in the face. Compromise was out of the question. They took it to court. What the court decision was has long been lost but how they treated each other has not.
When it was over they never spoke again.
Sullivan would write the music and mail it to Gilbert.
Gilbert would piece in the words and mail it back to Sullivan.
They never took or sought the journey of understanding.
Their pride was a demon and it took them down.
They had been friends and they forgot that it is better to lose your pride than to lose a friend because of useless pride.
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“For if any person thinks himself to be somebody [too important to condescend to shoulder another's load] when he is nobody [of superiority except in his own estimation], he deceives and deludes and cheats himself” Galatians 6: 3
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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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In the 19th century Gilbert and Sullivan were the equivalent of today’s rock stars.
The comic operas they wrote captured the music world and audiences all over the world flocked to appreciate their outlandish lyrics and sprightly music. .
Among their greatest and best known; H.MS. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikdao. They served up laughter and philosophy in an entertaining package and had the world in the palm of their hands.
Their talents were unbelievable and they were destined to work together in joyful harmony for the rest of their lives.
However, it was not to be.
Their fragile egos were such that soon they were standing at opposite ends of the stage so they wouldn’t have to see each other.
It all started because one time early in their years they bought a theatre and Sullivan ordered a new carpet which Gilbert thought to expensive.
They grew red in the face. Compromise was out of the question. They took it to court. What the court decision was has long been lost but how they treated each other has not.
When it was over they never spoke again.
Sullivan would write the music and mail it to Gilbert.
Gilbert would piece in the words and mail it back to Sullivan.
They never took or sought the journey of understanding.
Their pride was a demon and it took them down.
They had been friends and they forgot that it is better to lose your pride than to lose a friend because of useless pride.
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“For if any person thinks himself to be somebody [too important to condescend to shoulder another's load] when he is nobody [of superiority except in his own estimation], he deceives and deludes and cheats himself” Galatians 6: 3
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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, October 2, 2010
JUST DO IT BECAUSE IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO
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The following letter was found in a baking-power can wired to the handle of an old pump that offered the only hope of drinking water on a very long and seldom-used trail across Nevada's Amargosa Desert:
"This pump is all right as of June 1932. I put a new sucker washer into it and it ought to last five years. But the washer dries out and the pump has got to be primed. Under the white rock I buried a bottle of water, out of the sun and cork end up. There's enough water in it to prime the pump, but not if you drink some first. Pour about one-fourth and let her soak to wet the leather. Then pour in the rest medium fast and pump like crazy. You'll git water. The well has never run dry. Have faith. When you git watered up, fill the bottle and put it back like you found it for the next feller. (signed) Desert Pete. P.S. Don't go drinking the water first. Prime the pump with it and you'll git all you can hold."
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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 on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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The following letter was found in a baking-power can wired to the handle of an old pump that offered the only hope of drinking water on a very long and seldom-used trail across Nevada's Amargosa Desert:
"This pump is all right as of June 1932. I put a new sucker washer into it and it ought to last five years. But the washer dries out and the pump has got to be primed. Under the white rock I buried a bottle of water, out of the sun and cork end up. There's enough water in it to prime the pump, but not if you drink some first. Pour about one-fourth and let her soak to wet the leather. Then pour in the rest medium fast and pump like crazy. You'll git water. The well has never run dry. Have faith. When you git watered up, fill the bottle and put it back like you found it for the next feller. (signed) Desert Pete. P.S. Don't go drinking the water first. Prime the pump with it and you'll git all you can hold."
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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 on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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