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“Be great believers, little faith brings your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to your souls” wrote the great evangelist Spurgeon many decades ago.
And these priceless ageless comments do anyone well who melds them into the fabric of their souls.
It is called growing older day by day and by the grace of God and the depth of our prayers our growing wiser too.
For
“I shall not mind the whiteness of my hair
Or that slow steps falter on the stair,
Or that friends hurry as they pass,
Or what strange image greets me in the glass –
If I can feel, as roots feel in the sod,
That I am growing old to bloom before the face of God.” (anonymous)
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The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war rise up against me, yet I will be confident.” (Psalm 27: 1, 3)
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROW’S BLOG entitled WHAT A MAN OF COURAGE!
“He used to write some of his stories a few lines at a time.
Sometimes he would have to stop and put his pen down and rest, sometimes 60 times an hour.” Robert Louis Stevenson
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A new series on PRAYER began on Sunday Nov 21st
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
GOOD EXAMPLES ARE GOOD
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Mark Twain had way of going for the jugular vein. One day when someone was complaining to him about how someone who was a “goody goody” Twain replied, “An interesting descriptive phrase but then I’ve always noticed that few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
A good example…it is rather important now isn’t it.
When Chief Toma Chi Chi, in 18th century Georgia, was asked by the Wesley to give his life to Christ he simply replied, “Christians steal, Christians beat men, Christians keep slaves. Why me want to be Christian?”
“I’d rather see a sermon than hear one. The eyes a better pupil than the ear.” I heard that from a pulpit more years ago than I can almost count and I have not forgotten it nor do I want to.
“Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.” That’s the way St. Francis of Assissi put it.
One man said that setting a good example for his children took all the fun out of middle age,” but then he stopped grinning and got serious, “but I do it anyway or certainly try hard.”
We need to be that kind of hero in our relationships, heroic in keeping moral codes and uplifting our best for a daily renewal of our lives.
And we can’t just let how we live be just going along with the crowd. “It’s really quite democratic to live that way,” said someone to me one day and I reached back for an old idea rattling around in my head for years, “ The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner with one sheep.”
So don’t be a sheep among wolves. Which means…watch out for wolves who may out vote you but not necessarily be qualified to lead you.
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John 13:15 “For I have given you an aexample, that ye should do as I have done to you.”
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled OUR JOURNEY
“Be great believers, little faith bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to your souls”
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A new Series on PRAYER began on Sunday Nov 21st
To read these and a variety of topics
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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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Mark Twain had way of going for the jugular vein. One day when someone was complaining to him about how someone who was a “goody goody” Twain replied, “An interesting descriptive phrase but then I’ve always noticed that few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
A good example…it is rather important now isn’t it.
When Chief Toma Chi Chi, in 18th century Georgia, was asked by the Wesley to give his life to Christ he simply replied, “Christians steal, Christians beat men, Christians keep slaves. Why me want to be Christian?”
“I’d rather see a sermon than hear one. The eyes a better pupil than the ear.” I heard that from a pulpit more years ago than I can almost count and I have not forgotten it nor do I want to.
“Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.” That’s the way St. Francis of Assissi put it.
One man said that setting a good example for his children took all the fun out of middle age,” but then he stopped grinning and got serious, “but I do it anyway or certainly try hard.”
We need to be that kind of hero in our relationships, heroic in keeping moral codes and uplifting our best for a daily renewal of our lives.
And we can’t just let how we live be just going along with the crowd. “It’s really quite democratic to live that way,” said someone to me one day and I reached back for an old idea rattling around in my head for years, “ The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner with one sheep.”
So don’t be a sheep among wolves. Which means…watch out for wolves who may out vote you but not necessarily be qualified to lead you.
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John 13:15 “For I have given you an aexample, that ye should do as I have done to you.”
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled OUR JOURNEY
“Be great believers, little faith bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to your souls”
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A new Series on PRAYER began on Sunday Nov 21st
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
HUMILITY, THY NAME IS WISDOM
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The following is a story as old as the hills but then again you may not have wandered in the right direction to have heard it before. At any rate, after the tale I have added a new twist which I hope will tweak your thinking processes.
An old farmer bought a woe-be-gone piece of property covered with weeds and brush and huge stones. He immediately named it “Disaster” and promptly went to work so that it could earn a name change.
It was hard work but the transformation was amazing; the new fence, the unclogged overgrown little crick, the stones used to build a small wall across the front of his house and the crops standing tall and ready for the harvest.
One day his neighbor visited him and commented, “The Lord and you have certainly done wonders with this place.”
“You should have seen it when the Lord had it all by himself.”
And had I been standing there with the two of them I might have added my own comments to the dialogue…
Something like…”Perhaps you might consider how you wouldn’t be alive to do anything if the Lord hadn’t chosen to give you life…and then there is the matter of how the days are broken up with just the proper amount of darkness and day.
Think on it…what if days were 160 hours long and the nights 80 hours long.
The days would burn your crops to crisp and the nights would put them in deep freeze. Because that is what would happen if the earth rotated on an axis 100 miles an hour instead of 1000.
Were the moon 200,000miles closer there wouldn’t be a harvest moon for the crops. Indeed, there wouldn’t be any crops.
The tides would twice a day submerge every continent we know.
To be impatient with God is the ultimate fooldom because the person who has achieved this poor choice of thought and action will one day be forced to give a defense of such fooldom.
Or as the self made man needs to learn and remember… your candle loses nothing of its own brightness by lightning God’s candle as well.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. --(Saint Augustine )
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And then I might start to quote…
Matthew 5:5 - "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROW’S BLOG entitled GOOD EXAMPLES ARE GOOD
“Twain replied, “An interesting descriptive phrase but then I’ve always noticed that few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
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A new Series on PRAYER began on Sunday Nov 21st
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The following is a story as old as the hills but then again you may not have wandered in the right direction to have heard it before. At any rate, after the tale I have added a new twist which I hope will tweak your thinking processes.
An old farmer bought a woe-be-gone piece of property covered with weeds and brush and huge stones. He immediately named it “Disaster” and promptly went to work so that it could earn a name change.
It was hard work but the transformation was amazing; the new fence, the unclogged overgrown little crick, the stones used to build a small wall across the front of his house and the crops standing tall and ready for the harvest.
One day his neighbor visited him and commented, “The Lord and you have certainly done wonders with this place.”
“You should have seen it when the Lord had it all by himself.”
And had I been standing there with the two of them I might have added my own comments to the dialogue…
Something like…”Perhaps you might consider how you wouldn’t be alive to do anything if the Lord hadn’t chosen to give you life…and then there is the matter of how the days are broken up with just the proper amount of darkness and day.
Think on it…what if days were 160 hours long and the nights 80 hours long.
The days would burn your crops to crisp and the nights would put them in deep freeze. Because that is what would happen if the earth rotated on an axis 100 miles an hour instead of 1000.
Were the moon 200,000miles closer there wouldn’t be a harvest moon for the crops. Indeed, there wouldn’t be any crops.
The tides would twice a day submerge every continent we know.
To be impatient with God is the ultimate fooldom because the person who has achieved this poor choice of thought and action will one day be forced to give a defense of such fooldom.
Or as the self made man needs to learn and remember… your candle loses nothing of its own brightness by lightning God’s candle as well.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. --(Saint Augustine )
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And then I might start to quote…
Matthew 5:5 - "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROW’S BLOG entitled GOOD EXAMPLES ARE GOOD
“Twain replied, “An interesting descriptive phrase but then I’ve always noticed that few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
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A new Series on PRAYER began on Sunday Nov 21st
To read these and a variety of topics
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http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Saturday, November 27, 2010
HOW TO BE READY TO HANDLE BAD DAYS
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A farmer needed help and so he advertised in the local newspaper. After receiving a number of inquiries, he finally decided it was time to interview an applicant for the job.
“Can you run a milking machine?” was his opening question.
“Nope” came back the reply.
“Can you drive a tractor?” The same negative answer returned.
Other questions of like nature followed and it soon became obvious that this applicant was overwhelmed by inadequacy.
“Well, what can you do?” was the farmer’s final question.
“I can sleep while the wind blows.”
For a moment the answer left the old farmer speechless and then intrigued. He could not explain it but for some reason he was going to hire this incompetent.
“Everyone has to get his chance and maybe he is a quick learner,” the farmer thought to himself.
Several days after the young man had come to work a tremendous storm hit the area and the farmer awoke to thunder and shutters flapping and rattling.
As he went by the room of his new hired hand he seemed to be sleeping peacefully.
Mumbling to himself he angrily rushed out into the night to see for himself how much disaster had visited.
First, he went toward the barn to check things out. It was locked tightly and anything that needed tying down was firmly protected.
“Well,” I know one thing. I’ll bet he didn’t tent the tarpaulin over the straw pile.”
But on observation it was securely tied and not a blade had gone rushed away by the wind.
Wherever he went all had weathered the storm. Everything was properly prepared.
And then he thought what the young man had said, “I can sleep while the wind blows.”
In life sometimes the wind blows and storms emotional, financial or otherwise come crashing down. around us and that is when we need to have prepared ahead of time.
How to handle bad days when they come?
And certainly when we are dealing with matters of the soul.
Well…preparation is as in all things the secret.
Commitment and follow through, the habit of prayer power and Holy Spirit undergirding, so you can sleep while the wind blows.
Certainly not sing Frank Sinatra’s song “I did it my way” and realize later we should have worked harder at doing it God’s way…
Make worship a habit so even though the storm knows when it is coming and you don’t you are prepared when it does come.
In short, we may not be able to stop a storm but we can prepare our person.
Be thankful…even when the list is short…for thanksgiving enlarges the ability to endure.
Remember the obvious…you are not the master of your fate or the captain of your soul. Proper priority is a must.
Don’t distract yourself from God with poor listening. It is so easy to make our prayers commands rather than listening posts.
How do you do this? Follow the 2 S rule.
Scripture and solitude. And by such preparation you …well let me tell you a story…it will do a better job of explaining myself than perhaps I am doing…
Two men were chopping wood and one spent more time sitting down than the other…and who chopped the most wood?
The man who spent more time sitting down.
Because you see he spent more time sharpening his ax.
You don’t have to memorize instantaneously bring them up when you need them.
Sharpen the ax of your thinking without heedless activity may be another way of putting it.
You don’t to spend every waking moment like a monk in everlasting prayer…but get yourself beyond the “God is great, God is good” syndrome.
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Romans 12:20
"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled HUMILITY, THY NAME IS WISDOM
“Or as the self made man needs to learn and remember… your candle loses nothing of its own brightness by lightning God’s candle as well.”
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A new Series on PRAYER began Sunday Nov 21st
To read these and a variety of topics
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http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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A farmer needed help and so he advertised in the local newspaper. After receiving a number of inquiries, he finally decided it was time to interview an applicant for the job.
“Can you run a milking machine?” was his opening question.
“Nope” came back the reply.
“Can you drive a tractor?” The same negative answer returned.
Other questions of like nature followed and it soon became obvious that this applicant was overwhelmed by inadequacy.
“Well, what can you do?” was the farmer’s final question.
“I can sleep while the wind blows.”
For a moment the answer left the old farmer speechless and then intrigued. He could not explain it but for some reason he was going to hire this incompetent.
“Everyone has to get his chance and maybe he is a quick learner,” the farmer thought to himself.
Several days after the young man had come to work a tremendous storm hit the area and the farmer awoke to thunder and shutters flapping and rattling.
As he went by the room of his new hired hand he seemed to be sleeping peacefully.
Mumbling to himself he angrily rushed out into the night to see for himself how much disaster had visited.
First, he went toward the barn to check things out. It was locked tightly and anything that needed tying down was firmly protected.
“Well,” I know one thing. I’ll bet he didn’t tent the tarpaulin over the straw pile.”
But on observation it was securely tied and not a blade had gone rushed away by the wind.
Wherever he went all had weathered the storm. Everything was properly prepared.
And then he thought what the young man had said, “I can sleep while the wind blows.”
In life sometimes the wind blows and storms emotional, financial or otherwise come crashing down. around us and that is when we need to have prepared ahead of time.
How to handle bad days when they come?
And certainly when we are dealing with matters of the soul.
Well…preparation is as in all things the secret.
Commitment and follow through, the habit of prayer power and Holy Spirit undergirding, so you can sleep while the wind blows.
Certainly not sing Frank Sinatra’s song “I did it my way” and realize later we should have worked harder at doing it God’s way…
Make worship a habit so even though the storm knows when it is coming and you don’t you are prepared when it does come.
In short, we may not be able to stop a storm but we can prepare our person.
Be thankful…even when the list is short…for thanksgiving enlarges the ability to endure.
Remember the obvious…you are not the master of your fate or the captain of your soul. Proper priority is a must.
Don’t distract yourself from God with poor listening. It is so easy to make our prayers commands rather than listening posts.
How do you do this? Follow the 2 S rule.
Scripture and solitude. And by such preparation you …well let me tell you a story…it will do a better job of explaining myself than perhaps I am doing…
Two men were chopping wood and one spent more time sitting down than the other…and who chopped the most wood?
The man who spent more time sitting down.
Because you see he spent more time sharpening his ax.
You don’t have to memorize instantaneously bring them up when you need them.
Sharpen the ax of your thinking without heedless activity may be another way of putting it.
You don’t to spend every waking moment like a monk in everlasting prayer…but get yourself beyond the “God is great, God is good” syndrome.
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Romans 12:20
"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled HUMILITY, THY NAME IS WISDOM
“Or as the self made man needs to learn and remember… your candle loses nothing of its own brightness by lightning God’s candle as well.”
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A new Series on PRAYER began Sunday Nov 21st
To read these and a variety of topics
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http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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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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Friday, November 26, 2010
THE EASY WAY OUT is not Always the Easy Way Out
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It is a concept I have heard many times and perhaps you also have been blessed by this way of thinking. If is not a new thought but it still bears repeating and sharing with some friends.
When Jesus spoke on the Mount that sermon that stirs our souls He promised His Disciples three things…
that they would be entirely fearless,
that they would be absurdly happy
and that they would get into trouble.
The did get into trouble and found to their surprise that they were not afraid.
They were filled with a heavenly courage and contentment,
laughed at their own troubles
and cried over the troubles of other people.
Their sense of otherness was a gift beyond compare.
They learned what others have learned and some the hard way and some never at all.
The lesson is embodied in the following story.
An influential man was being interviewed by a reporter.
“What does it feel like to be such a successful self-made man?”
“Oh,” replied the man, “I suppose it has some advantages but if I had it to do again, I think I would ask God for some help.”
That great preacher Phillip Brooks once spoke from his pulpit the following, “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger persons. Do not pray for task equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your task. Then the doing of your work shall not be a miracle. But you will be a miracle.”
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Romans 12:2 ()
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled HOW TO BE READY TO HANDLE BAD DAYS
"we may not be able to stop a storm but we can prepare the person."
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A new Series on PRAYER began on Sunday Nov 21st
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 a Serialization of His Internationally published RUST ON MY SOUL
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It is a concept I have heard many times and perhaps you also have been blessed by this way of thinking. If is not a new thought but it still bears repeating and sharing with some friends.
When Jesus spoke on the Mount that sermon that stirs our souls He promised His Disciples three things…
that they would be entirely fearless,
that they would be absurdly happy
and that they would get into trouble.
The did get into trouble and found to their surprise that they were not afraid.
They were filled with a heavenly courage and contentment,
laughed at their own troubles
and cried over the troubles of other people.
Their sense of otherness was a gift beyond compare.
They learned what others have learned and some the hard way and some never at all.
The lesson is embodied in the following story.
An influential man was being interviewed by a reporter.
“What does it feel like to be such a successful self-made man?”
“Oh,” replied the man, “I suppose it has some advantages but if I had it to do again, I think I would ask God for some help.”
That great preacher Phillip Brooks once spoke from his pulpit the following, “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger persons. Do not pray for task equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your task. Then the doing of your work shall not be a miracle. But you will be a miracle.”
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Romans 12:2 ()
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled HOW TO BE READY TO HANDLE BAD DAYS
"we may not be able to stop a storm but we can prepare the person."
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A new Series on PRAYER began on Sunday Nov 21st
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 a Serialization of His Internationally published RUST ON MY SOUL
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
WHAT DO YOU WANT ENGRAVED ON YOUR TOMBSTONE?
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He was adamant. He knew what he wanted on his tombstone and he would not deter from his decision.
“But dad,” and his daughter began her argument against it for the umpteenth time.
“I want…” he interrupted, “I want placed on my tombstone the words ‘Born a human being, died a grocer’ because I hope it will make at least one person think about what they have committed their life too at the expense of other parts of their life…
Because..
I have enjoyed being a grocer but I did not expand my life. I was so busy selling groceries (insert whatever job you want) I had no time to be a good husband or father or neighbor. I was so busy selling groceries I never traveled even though I had the money. I took no time to read or garden or find a hobby or simply sit and enjoy a sunrise or sunset.
My life became a telescope looking through the wrong end. I was so busy selling ( ) that I never had the time for the theater or music or ball games or really any recreational pursuit. I was so busy selling groceries I had no time for feeding my soul or making any friends or …I have been a successful ( ) but a failure as human being…
I was so busy making a living I never made the time to make a life.”
What have you been? What are you in the midst of being?
Consider…being guided by a faith that is greater than fear.
A life that expands rather than contracts.
Consider why you may be having to much to live with and not enough to live for.
Indeed, do not become like the description Cassis puts forth of many folk, “They have a daily ugliness, that spoils whatever beauty is around.”
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Quote from tomorrow’s blog entitled THE EASY WAY OUT IS NOT ALWAYS THE EASY WAY OUT
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger persons. Do not pray for task equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your task. Then the doing of your work shall not be a miracle. But you will be a miracle.”
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A new Series on PRAYER began Sun Nov 21st
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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He was adamant. He knew what he wanted on his tombstone and he would not deter from his decision.
“But dad,” and his daughter began her argument against it for the umpteenth time.
“I want…” he interrupted, “I want placed on my tombstone the words ‘Born a human being, died a grocer’ because I hope it will make at least one person think about what they have committed their life too at the expense of other parts of their life…
Because..
I have enjoyed being a grocer but I did not expand my life. I was so busy selling groceries (insert whatever job you want) I had no time to be a good husband or father or neighbor. I was so busy selling groceries I never traveled even though I had the money. I took no time to read or garden or find a hobby or simply sit and enjoy a sunrise or sunset.
My life became a telescope looking through the wrong end. I was so busy selling ( ) that I never had the time for the theater or music or ball games or really any recreational pursuit. I was so busy selling groceries I had no time for feeding my soul or making any friends or …I have been a successful ( ) but a failure as human being…
I was so busy making a living I never made the time to make a life.”
What have you been? What are you in the midst of being?
Consider…being guided by a faith that is greater than fear.
A life that expands rather than contracts.
Consider why you may be having to much to live with and not enough to live for.
Indeed, do not become like the description Cassis puts forth of many folk, “They have a daily ugliness, that spoils whatever beauty is around.”
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Quote from tomorrow’s blog entitled THE EASY WAY OUT IS NOT ALWAYS THE EASY WAY OUT
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger persons. Do not pray for task equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your task. Then the doing of your work shall not be a miracle. But you will be a miracle.”
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A new Series on PRAYER began Sun Nov 21st
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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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
JUST SOME QUESTIONS
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1. What is the first think of when you first awaken in the morning? The Second? The third? Is God the first thing you think of or is he something you get around to somewhere later in the day or tomorrow or…
2. When you say “Jesus Christ” is it a prayer or a curse?
3. Can you say a blessing at the table (if you say a blessing at the table) faster than anyone else?
4. Do you have a regular devotional time or no devotional time?
5. Do you think these questions and questions like them are ridiculous? Relevant to your total well being?
True worship is a constant preoccupation with God that looks for opportunities and does not transform opportunities into excuses.
And on the matter of worship and concern with the power and presence of God.
The citizens of Feldirch, Austria were desperate. On the heights above the town Napoleon’s massive army had gathered in preparation to attack.
A council of citizens was summoned to decide what to do…whether to try to defend themselves or fly a white flag of surrender.
It happened to be Easter Sunday and the people had gathered at their local church.
The pastor arose and began to speak, “Friends, we have been counting on our own strength and apparently that has failed. As this is the day of our Lord's resurrection, let us just ring the bells, have our services as usual, and leave the matter in His hands. We know only our weakness, and not the power of God to defend us."
The council accepted his plan and the church bells rang mightily and long.. The enemy, hearing the sudden peal, concluded that the Austrian army had arrived during the night to defend the town.
And the people were rejoicing.
Before the service ended, the enemy broke camp and left.
When the glory of God and the faith of man combine miracles fall like drops of rain all around…and that is when an eternal everlasting rainbow shines.
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Psalms 59:16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.
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Quote from tomorrow’s blog entitled WHAT DO YOU WANT ENGRAVED ON YOUR TOMBSTONE?
Do not become like the description Cassis puts forth of many folk, “They have a daily ugliness, that spoils whatever beauty is around.”
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A new Series on PRAYER began on Sun Nov 21
To read these and a variety of topics
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1. What is the first think of when you first awaken in the morning? The Second? The third? Is God the first thing you think of or is he something you get around to somewhere later in the day or tomorrow or…
2. When you say “Jesus Christ” is it a prayer or a curse?
3. Can you say a blessing at the table (if you say a blessing at the table) faster than anyone else?
4. Do you have a regular devotional time or no devotional time?
5. Do you think these questions and questions like them are ridiculous? Relevant to your total well being?
True worship is a constant preoccupation with God that looks for opportunities and does not transform opportunities into excuses.
And on the matter of worship and concern with the power and presence of God.
The citizens of Feldirch, Austria were desperate. On the heights above the town Napoleon’s massive army had gathered in preparation to attack.
A council of citizens was summoned to decide what to do…whether to try to defend themselves or fly a white flag of surrender.
It happened to be Easter Sunday and the people had gathered at their local church.
The pastor arose and began to speak, “Friends, we have been counting on our own strength and apparently that has failed. As this is the day of our Lord's resurrection, let us just ring the bells, have our services as usual, and leave the matter in His hands. We know only our weakness, and not the power of God to defend us."
The council accepted his plan and the church bells rang mightily and long.. The enemy, hearing the sudden peal, concluded that the Austrian army had arrived during the night to defend the town.
And the people were rejoicing.
Before the service ended, the enemy broke camp and left.
When the glory of God and the faith of man combine miracles fall like drops of rain all around…and that is when an eternal everlasting rainbow shines.
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Psalms 59:16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.
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Quote from tomorrow’s blog entitled WHAT DO YOU WANT ENGRAVED ON YOUR TOMBSTONE?
Do not become like the description Cassis puts forth of many folk, “They have a daily ugliness, that spoils whatever beauty is around.”
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A new Series on PRAYER began on Sun Nov 21
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
INTERESTING
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Stay with me on this one. We are going to take a quick look at the history of astronomy and at astronomy as found in the Bible and it will be an interesting journey.
For thousands of years men would look up and count the stars.
Before the 17th century when the telescope was invented the number of stars were determined and the determination are interesting to say the least.
The great Ptolemy gave the number as 1,056, Tycho Brahhe catalogued 777 and Kepler counted 1,005.
Today it is agreed that in our own galaxy there are over one hundred billion stars, with probably billions of other galaxies like our own. Indeed, astronomers now agree it is not humanly possible to count all the stars.
A few centuries ago, scientist would have said, “yes, you can count the stars.”
However in Jeremiah 33:22 you can read, :”The host of heaven cannot be numbered.”: In 1402, Christopher Columbus was considered carazy when he wanted to sail on beyond where the majority of folk believed he would fall off the edge of the earth. “The world is flat,” it was commonly agreed by most.
And in Job 26:7, you can read, “He hangeth the earth upon nothing.”
In Isaiah 40:22, you can read a description of God, “It is He who sitteth upon the circle of the earth.”
In Psalm 102:25,26, we read, "Of old hast Thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of Thy hands. They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed."
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled JUST SOME QUESTIONS
“The citizens of Feldirch, Austria were desperate. On the heights above the town Napoleon’s massive army had gathered in preparation to attack.
A council of citizens was summoned to decide what to do…whether to try to defend themselves or fly a white flag of surrender…”
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A new Series on PRAYER began on Sun Nov 21
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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Stay with me on this one. We are going to take a quick look at the history of astronomy and at astronomy as found in the Bible and it will be an interesting journey.
For thousands of years men would look up and count the stars.
Before the 17th century when the telescope was invented the number of stars were determined and the determination are interesting to say the least.
The great Ptolemy gave the number as 1,056, Tycho Brahhe catalogued 777 and Kepler counted 1,005.
Today it is agreed that in our own galaxy there are over one hundred billion stars, with probably billions of other galaxies like our own. Indeed, astronomers now agree it is not humanly possible to count all the stars.
A few centuries ago, scientist would have said, “yes, you can count the stars.”
However in Jeremiah 33:22 you can read, :”The host of heaven cannot be numbered.”: In 1402, Christopher Columbus was considered carazy when he wanted to sail on beyond where the majority of folk believed he would fall off the edge of the earth. “The world is flat,” it was commonly agreed by most.
And in Job 26:7, you can read, “He hangeth the earth upon nothing.”
In Isaiah 40:22, you can read a description of God, “It is He who sitteth upon the circle of the earth.”
In Psalm 102:25,26, we read, "Of old hast Thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of Thy hands. They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed."
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled JUST SOME QUESTIONS
“The citizens of Feldirch, Austria were desperate. On the heights above the town Napoleon’s massive army had gathered in preparation to attack.
A council of citizens was summoned to decide what to do…whether to try to defend themselves or fly a white flag of surrender…”
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A new Series on PRAYER began on Sun Nov 21
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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Monday, November 22, 2010
THE POWER OF PRAYER
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To say that George Muller was an unusual man was an understatement. Like many of his contemporaries he would speak of faith that could move mountains but what made him different was how he placed his whole life and future behind these words.
And what did he do that was so different many people considered him quite mad.
He founded an orphanage and never had a fund raising campaign.
Never wrote a letter asking for money.
Never did what everyone else always did.
Never did anything but pray.
And yes…you have guessed it…
Miracle followed miracle followed by yet another miracle.
And when other orphanages would chide him for how he ran the orphanage and its finances he would always reply, “You and your kids just live from hand to mouth. As for us it is our mouth and God’s hand.”
One college kid put it this way, “I feel that the power of God is like an ace in my hand that can trump any trick life deals me.”
How to pray…well consider first that all ours prayers must be a petition and not a command.
I read the following many years ago. I may not remember it to the exact word but I remember it well enough to share the gist of it…and the overwhelming truth of it…and praise God for the majesty of it.
He asked for strength that he might achieve; he was made weak that he might obey.
He asked for health that he might do greater things; he was given infirmity that he might do better things.
He asked for riches that he might be happy; he was given poverty that he might be wise.
He asked for power that he might have the praise of men; he was given failure that he might feel the need of God.
He asked for all things that he might enjoy life; he was given life that he might enjoy all things.
Ah yes, to be able to understand the greatness of God you must be willing to give him what little greatness is in you.
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"Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; and listen to the cry of my supplications." Psalm 86: 6
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Quote from tomorrow’s blog entitled INTERESTING
“Before the 17th century when the telescope was invented the number of stars were determined. The great Ptolemy gave the number as 1,056, Tycho Brahhe catalogued 777 and Kepler counted 1,005, Today it is agreed that in our own galaxy there are over one hundred billion stars, with probably billions of other galaxies like our own. “
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A new Series on PRAYER began Sunday November 21st ..
To read it these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.
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To say that George Muller was an unusual man was an understatement. Like many of his contemporaries he would speak of faith that could move mountains but what made him different was how he placed his whole life and future behind these words.
And what did he do that was so different many people considered him quite mad.
He founded an orphanage and never had a fund raising campaign.
Never wrote a letter asking for money.
Never did what everyone else always did.
Never did anything but pray.
And yes…you have guessed it…
Miracle followed miracle followed by yet another miracle.
And when other orphanages would chide him for how he ran the orphanage and its finances he would always reply, “You and your kids just live from hand to mouth. As for us it is our mouth and God’s hand.”
One college kid put it this way, “I feel that the power of God is like an ace in my hand that can trump any trick life deals me.”
How to pray…well consider first that all ours prayers must be a petition and not a command.
I read the following many years ago. I may not remember it to the exact word but I remember it well enough to share the gist of it…and the overwhelming truth of it…and praise God for the majesty of it.
He asked for strength that he might achieve; he was made weak that he might obey.
He asked for health that he might do greater things; he was given infirmity that he might do better things.
He asked for riches that he might be happy; he was given poverty that he might be wise.
He asked for power that he might have the praise of men; he was given failure that he might feel the need of God.
He asked for all things that he might enjoy life; he was given life that he might enjoy all things.
Ah yes, to be able to understand the greatness of God you must be willing to give him what little greatness is in you.
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"Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; and listen to the cry of my supplications." Psalm 86: 6
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Quote from tomorrow’s blog entitled INTERESTING
“Before the 17th century when the telescope was invented the number of stars were determined. The great Ptolemy gave the number as 1,056, Tycho Brahhe catalogued 777 and Kepler counted 1,005, Today it is agreed that in our own galaxy there are over one hundred billion stars, with probably billions of other galaxies like our own. “
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A new Series on PRAYER began Sunday November 21st ..
To read it these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
THREE INCHES LONG
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When I arose this morning I did what we all do…I looked into the mirror and said “Good morning.”
And the use of my tongue to form these two words were sanguine enough and got my day started off reasonably well.
But then I thought on all the times this three inches long mechanism has been a blessing and times when it has been no blessing at all.
And I thought of the phrase “If you can’t write it and sign it don’t say it.”
In short, think twice before I speak once.
And then there is the story of Thomas Edison and how at a dinner they were praising him for his invention of the Talking machine…and praising him…and praising him..
Finally when he arose his opening comment was.
“Thank you for praising me for inventing the first talking machine but I must remind you that actually God invented the first talking machine; man. I simply invented a talking machine that could more easily be turned off.”
The great philosopher Justin put it this way, “By examining the tongue of a patient the doctor finds the diseases of the body and the philosopher finds the diseases of the mind.”
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“By our words we shall be justified, and by our words we shall be condemned.”
Matthew 12:36-37
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Quote from tomorrows blog entitled THE POWER OF PRAYER
“How to pray? Well consider first that all ours prayers must be a petition and not a command.”
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A new Series on PRAYER begins TODAY on my other blog
WYRICK'S WRINGS
TO READ THE SERIES CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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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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When I arose this morning I did what we all do…I looked into the mirror and said “Good morning.”
And the use of my tongue to form these two words were sanguine enough and got my day started off reasonably well.
But then I thought on all the times this three inches long mechanism has been a blessing and times when it has been no blessing at all.
And I thought of the phrase “If you can’t write it and sign it don’t say it.”
In short, think twice before I speak once.
And then there is the story of Thomas Edison and how at a dinner they were praising him for his invention of the Talking machine…and praising him…and praising him..
Finally when he arose his opening comment was.
“Thank you for praising me for inventing the first talking machine but I must remind you that actually God invented the first talking machine; man. I simply invented a talking machine that could more easily be turned off.”
The great philosopher Justin put it this way, “By examining the tongue of a patient the doctor finds the diseases of the body and the philosopher finds the diseases of the mind.”
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“By our words we shall be justified, and by our words we shall be condemned.”
Matthew 12:36-37
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Quote from tomorrows blog entitled THE POWER OF PRAYER
“How to pray? Well consider first that all ours prayers must be a petition and not a command.”
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A new Series on PRAYER begins TODAY on my other blog
WYRICK'S WRINGS
TO READ THE SERIES CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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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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Saturday, November 20, 2010
DON’T FACTOR IN FEAR
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The man’s wife had just awakened him in the middle of the night.
“There’s a burglar downstairs.” She had done this many times and so rather than argue that her overactive imagination was hard at work; he sleepily stumbled out of the bed and down the stairs…flashlight in hand.
Except that this time there really was a burglar.
“Just be quiet and you won’t get hurt,” growled the in house thief.
“Oh, don’t worry,” replied the husband, “I won’t make a sound but I sure do wish you would go upstairs and introduce yourself to my wife. She’s been expecting you every night for twenty years."
The great French philosopher Montages used to say, “My life has been filled with great misfortunes…most of which never happened.”
Fear is a fence that blocks out so much opportunity of living out there and over there.
A muting of opportunity. An eraser of challenge. Substituting dullness in place of positive change.
And if we feed our fears they will show up at our dinner table of life on a regular basis.
Indeed the following quote which I have always loved, “A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope” Should find a place upfront in everyone’s way of thinking.
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The Lord is my Light and my Salvation--whom shall I fear or dread? The Lord is the Refuge and Stronghold of my life--of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27: 1
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Quotes from tomorrows blog entitled THREE INCHES LONG
“If you can’t write it and sign it don’t say it.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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The man’s wife had just awakened him in the middle of the night.
“There’s a burglar downstairs.” She had done this many times and so rather than argue that her overactive imagination was hard at work; he sleepily stumbled out of the bed and down the stairs…flashlight in hand.
Except that this time there really was a burglar.
“Just be quiet and you won’t get hurt,” growled the in house thief.
“Oh, don’t worry,” replied the husband, “I won’t make a sound but I sure do wish you would go upstairs and introduce yourself to my wife. She’s been expecting you every night for twenty years."
The great French philosopher Montages used to say, “My life has been filled with great misfortunes…most of which never happened.”
Fear is a fence that blocks out so much opportunity of living out there and over there.
A muting of opportunity. An eraser of challenge. Substituting dullness in place of positive change.
And if we feed our fears they will show up at our dinner table of life on a regular basis.
Indeed the following quote which I have always loved, “A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope” Should find a place upfront in everyone’s way of thinking.
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The Lord is my Light and my Salvation--whom shall I fear or dread? The Lord is the Refuge and Stronghold of my life--of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27: 1
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Quotes from tomorrows blog entitled THREE INCHES LONG
“If you can’t write it and sign it don’t say it.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
HOW FAR AND IN WHAT DIRECTION?
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A man was frustrated and lost. Fact is he was beginning to think he would never arrive at the Farmer’s house.
And then he saw a young man approaching on a tractor.
Stopping him, he asked, “How much further is it to Farmer Brown’s house.”
“Well now,” replied the young man, “In the direction you are going it is over 25,000 miles but if you’ll turn around and make a right turn it’s about one half a mile."
It’s amazing how far we can go in the wrong direction before we get and take some good advice in going in the right direction.
And sometimes, particularly the male species, who not ask directions at all.
And…yes…it’s bad enough when it is a geographical location we are seeking…but when it is a spiritual destination and we ignore and do not seek out advice…and the Lord’s word is there and the eternal need is there…we have made a serious error.
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
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-Matthew 6:19-21
"Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come."
-1 Timothy 4:7-8
"A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold."
-Proverbs 22:1
"Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise."
-Proverbs 19:20
"Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow."
-Theodore Epp
"A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed."
-Proverbs 11:25
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Quotes from tomorrow’s blog
Entitled DON’T FACTOR IN FEAR
And the following quotes which I have always loved, “A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even a rope.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.
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A man was frustrated and lost. Fact is he was beginning to think he would never arrive at the Farmer’s house.
And then he saw a young man approaching on a tractor.
Stopping him, he asked, “How much further is it to Farmer Brown’s house.”
“Well now,” replied the young man, “In the direction you are going it is over 25,000 miles but if you’ll turn around and make a right turn it’s about one half a mile."
It’s amazing how far we can go in the wrong direction before we get and take some good advice in going in the right direction.
And sometimes, particularly the male species, who not ask directions at all.
And…yes…it’s bad enough when it is a geographical location we are seeking…but when it is a spiritual destination and we ignore and do not seek out advice…and the Lord’s word is there and the eternal need is there…we have made a serious error.
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
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-Matthew 6:19-21
"Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come."
-1 Timothy 4:7-8
"A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold."
-Proverbs 22:1
"Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise."
-Proverbs 19:20
"Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow."
-Theodore Epp
"A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed."
-Proverbs 11:25
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Quotes from tomorrow’s blog
Entitled DON’T FACTOR IN FEAR
And the following quotes which I have always loved, “A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even a rope.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
ALL OF YOU FOR ALL OF WHAT
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He had a new college degree and he was proud of it.
And that not that bad for there is a lot of work that goes into such an achievement.
The problem was that he was too proud of it…overly proud to be exact.
So one day after he had heard the great evangelist Dwight L. Moody speak he went up to this man who had used his skill with words to brings thousands to the Lord and he said to him, “Sir, I detected 13 grammatical errors in your sermon this morning.
Dwight L. Moody just looked at the young man and patiently smiled as he said, “Son, I’m using all of the grammar I’ve got to the glory of God. What about you?”
How does that old saying go? “No one ever choked to death swallowing their own pride.”
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For by the grace (unmerited favor of God) given to me I warn everyone among you not to estimate and think of himself more highly than he ought [not to have an exaggerated opinion of his own importance], but to rate his ability with sober judgment, each according to the degree of faith apportioned by God to him. Romans 12: 3
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A QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled HOW FAR AND IN WHAT DIRECTION?
“It’s amazing how far we can go in the wrong direction before we get and take some good advice in going in the right direction. “
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.
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He had a new college degree and he was proud of it.
And that not that bad for there is a lot of work that goes into such an achievement.
The problem was that he was too proud of it…overly proud to be exact.
So one day after he had heard the great evangelist Dwight L. Moody speak he went up to this man who had used his skill with words to brings thousands to the Lord and he said to him, “Sir, I detected 13 grammatical errors in your sermon this morning.
Dwight L. Moody just looked at the young man and patiently smiled as he said, “Son, I’m using all of the grammar I’ve got to the glory of God. What about you?”
How does that old saying go? “No one ever choked to death swallowing their own pride.”
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For by the grace (unmerited favor of God) given to me I warn everyone among you not to estimate and think of himself more highly than he ought [not to have an exaggerated opinion of his own importance], but to rate his ability with sober judgment, each according to the degree of faith apportioned by God to him. Romans 12: 3
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A QUOTE FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled HOW FAR AND IN WHAT DIRECTION?
“It’s amazing how far we can go in the wrong direction before we get and take some good advice in going in the right direction. “
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING
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There is a church in England renown for its beautiful stain glass windows and that is an unusual reputation it has garnered because you see …it is not a stained glass window at all.
It looks like it at first glance and at a distance that the design and colors are magnificent.
But then when you get up close…you see that these magnificent masterpieces are made up of countless little pieces of broken glass.
Pieces of obscure bottles and a host of other broken objects.
And some saw shattered pieces of glass as worthless and threw them away.
But one man saw broken pieces of glass as priceless…and made a monument to human creativity and the desire to find beauty where it was most unlikely to be found.
And the lesson for you and me is obvious…make the best of the worst.
Which reminds me of yet another story…of a man who took tragedy and turned it into a full and rewarding life.
And who was that man? Henry Fawcett.
He became Post Master General of the whole of England and took this position to a new level.
He introduced such things as parcel post, postal savings and postal money orders.
And what is really interesting is the fact that he was totally blind.
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. “Go to the ant, you lazybones, study her ways and learn wisdom” (Prov 6:6).
“The appetite of the lazy craves and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied” (Prov 13:4).
“You see those who are skillful in their work? They will stand in the presence of kings” (Prov 22:29).
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled ALL OF YOU FOR ALL OF WHAT
“How does that old saying go? “No one ever choked to death swallowing their own pride.”
A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his
Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.
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There is a church in England renown for its beautiful stain glass windows and that is an unusual reputation it has garnered because you see …it is not a stained glass window at all.
It looks like it at first glance and at a distance that the design and colors are magnificent.
But then when you get up close…you see that these magnificent masterpieces are made up of countless little pieces of broken glass.
Pieces of obscure bottles and a host of other broken objects.
And some saw shattered pieces of glass as worthless and threw them away.
But one man saw broken pieces of glass as priceless…and made a monument to human creativity and the desire to find beauty where it was most unlikely to be found.
And the lesson for you and me is obvious…make the best of the worst.
Which reminds me of yet another story…of a man who took tragedy and turned it into a full and rewarding life.
And who was that man? Henry Fawcett.
He became Post Master General of the whole of England and took this position to a new level.
He introduced such things as parcel post, postal savings and postal money orders.
And what is really interesting is the fact that he was totally blind.
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. “Go to the ant, you lazybones, study her ways and learn wisdom” (Prov 6:6).
“The appetite of the lazy craves and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied” (Prov 13:4).
“You see those who are skillful in their work? They will stand in the presence of kings” (Prov 22:29).
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled ALL OF YOU FOR ALL OF WHAT
“How does that old saying go? “No one ever choked to death swallowing their own pride.”
A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his
Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE…IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE…IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE…IT IS…
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Captain John Callendar would never have believed it could be said of him but it was.
He was found, in this Revolutionary War, guilty of cowardice at Bunker Hill.
After he was court marshaled, General George Washington discharged him.
It was over…there was nowhere to visit…except disgrace.
But he was a man who knew that if a road chosen was the wrong road could and would change to another road.
And this was what John Callendar did for he was a man made of sterner stuff.
He reenlisted as a lowly private.
Then at the battle of Long Island he displayed such magnificent courage …George Washington restored his rank of Captain.
It is never too late to change. To change moldy moments into magnificent moments…to learn from the past and bring luster to the present.
I love the way Bruce Barton put it, “When you are through changing, you are through.”
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Matthew 3:8
”Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.”
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled MAKING SOMETHING ABOUT OF NOTHING
“Pieces of obscure bottles and a host of other broken objects.
And some saw broken pieces of glass as worthless and threw them away.
And one man saw broken pieces of glass as priceless…and made a monument to human creativity and the desire to find beauty where it was most unlikely to be found.”
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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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.
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Captain John Callendar would never have believed it could be said of him but it was.
He was found, in this Revolutionary War, guilty of cowardice at Bunker Hill.
After he was court marshaled, General George Washington discharged him.
It was over…there was nowhere to visit…except disgrace.
But he was a man who knew that if a road chosen was the wrong road could and would change to another road.
And this was what John Callendar did for he was a man made of sterner stuff.
He reenlisted as a lowly private.
Then at the battle of Long Island he displayed such magnificent courage …George Washington restored his rank of Captain.
It is never too late to change. To change moldy moments into magnificent moments…to learn from the past and bring luster to the present.
I love the way Bruce Barton put it, “When you are through changing, you are through.”
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Matthew 3:8
”Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.”
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled MAKING SOMETHING ABOUT OF NOTHING
“Pieces of obscure bottles and a host of other broken objects.
And some saw broken pieces of glass as worthless and threw them away.
And one man saw broken pieces of glass as priceless…and made a monument to human creativity and the desire to find beauty where it was most unlikely to be found.”
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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Monday, November 15, 2010
THE TIE THAT BINDS
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The old man was feeling the affect of his oldness. He no longer kept track of his ailments. The list was growing too long. But he was content, so content that there was always someone who knowing of his health problems would ask, “How do you do it?”
And he would patiently relate once again where his thinking stood, “When I die you will find in my bible the answer to your question but since I am still alive I will give it to you now…it is a prayer I have longed prayed and continue to pray.
“My God, send me anywhere for any reason…only go with me. Put any burden on me…only sustain me…sever any earthly tie…save that which binds my heart to thee.”
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope”
And that is what our Jesus is…the hope of the world…sustainer of miracles…offering and giving the peace that passeth understanding…”I am with you always” are his words.
“”The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually”” President Woodrow T. Wilson
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE
“When you are through changing, you are through.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.
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The old man was feeling the affect of his oldness. He no longer kept track of his ailments. The list was growing too long. But he was content, so content that there was always someone who knowing of his health problems would ask, “How do you do it?”
And he would patiently relate once again where his thinking stood, “When I die you will find in my bible the answer to your question but since I am still alive I will give it to you now…it is a prayer I have longed prayed and continue to pray.
“My God, send me anywhere for any reason…only go with me. Put any burden on me…only sustain me…sever any earthly tie…save that which binds my heart to thee.”
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope”
And that is what our Jesus is…the hope of the world…sustainer of miracles…offering and giving the peace that passeth understanding…”I am with you always” are his words.
“”The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually”” President Woodrow T. Wilson
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE
“When you are through changing, you are through.”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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Sunday, November 14, 2010
WHAT HAS A LIFE OF ITS OWN?
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Do you know how much the average person speaks in a lifetime? One billion, four hundred millions words.
That’s enough to fill fourteen hundred books, each three hundred pages long.
The gossip was spreading like a wildfire.
Did you know our minister went to a meeting his wife was attending and that he highly disapproved?
He publicly berated her and then completely lost control and dragged her bodily out of the meeting, put her in his car and drove her home.
At first the minister when he heard the story saw it as so ridiculous and unbelievable that he felt no one would believe it and simply ignored it.
But it had a life of its own and several people in the community as they spread the story beefed it up with more adjectives and colorful descriptions.
Finally the minister decided he had to do something.
So the next Sunday morning from the pulpit he made the following statements.
First, I never attempted to influence my wife in the choice of a meeting.
Second, my wife did not attend the meeting in question.
Third, I did not attend the meeting myself.
And fourth and most important I AM NOT MARRIED.
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Jesus said, “Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account of in the day of judgment.”
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled THE SECRET OF SURVIVAL THAT IS REALLY NO SECRET AT ALL
“The old man was feeling the affect of his oldness. He no longer kept track of his ailments. The list was growing too long. But he was content, so content that there was always someone who knew of his condition and some of the health problems and other problems that had assailed him would ask, “How do you do it?”
He would patiently relate once again where his thinking stood…”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.
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Do you know how much the average person speaks in a lifetime? One billion, four hundred millions words.
That’s enough to fill fourteen hundred books, each three hundred pages long.
The gossip was spreading like a wildfire.
Did you know our minister went to a meeting his wife was attending and that he highly disapproved?
He publicly berated her and then completely lost control and dragged her bodily out of the meeting, put her in his car and drove her home.
At first the minister when he heard the story saw it as so ridiculous and unbelievable that he felt no one would believe it and simply ignored it.
But it had a life of its own and several people in the community as they spread the story beefed it up with more adjectives and colorful descriptions.
Finally the minister decided he had to do something.
So the next Sunday morning from the pulpit he made the following statements.
First, I never attempted to influence my wife in the choice of a meeting.
Second, my wife did not attend the meeting in question.
Third, I did not attend the meeting myself.
And fourth and most important I AM NOT MARRIED.
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Jesus said, “Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account of in the day of judgment.”
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled THE SECRET OF SURVIVAL THAT IS REALLY NO SECRET AT ALL
“The old man was feeling the affect of his oldness. He no longer kept track of his ailments. The list was growing too long. But he was content, so content that there was always someone who knew of his condition and some of the health problems and other problems that had assailed him would ask, “How do you do it?”
He would patiently relate once again where his thinking stood…”
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
PERFECTION IS THAT PERFECTION WAS?
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Are you chasing the perfect church, the perfect friend, the perfect mate?
And you say…of course not…but people do…or their comments certainly infer that is what they are doing.
And when we don’t find it we are too often less than understanding.
“That’s stupid” we say…meaning I would never do or say anything that stupid.
And at that moment we become Imperfection finding fault with imperfection.
And finding unhappiness also…a great deal of unhappiness.
And Jesus talks of ways to be less condemnatory…and thereby more content.
He talks of forgiving each other seventy times seven…
And practicing a special kind of love and understanding.
And we can do the math but we don’t complete the opportunity.
We condemn and find fault and give up on humanity and…
Some do more than others…but all stamp their foot in anger more often than pray a prayer for compassion.
And who are you in this condemnation game?
If you are a person who has pulled yourself up by your own bootstraps do you find yourself extremely condemnatory toward others who do not have your drive to succeed?
If you have a large savings account and your neighbor spurges on a new boat and a new television set and…what do you say when you speak of him?
What then are we called to as we live together and work together?
How can we learn to live with each others imperfections as we one and all stumble two steps forward and stumble back again another step.
How can we notice in others their forward progress or forgive them if seems they are making no forward progress at all.
By practicing love…there is that challenge again…the love Christ taught…when we feel like it …and when we don’t.
And this we should do…and this we must do…else we become hypocrites standing on the corner shouting “I am glad I am perfect and not like all the ignorant hyper sinners and malcontents all around me.”
I close with a story.
Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, and all of the others, including Love.
One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all repaired their boats and left.
Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to persevere until the last possible moment.
When the island was almost sinking, Love decided to ask for help.
Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said, "Richness, can you take me with you?"
Richness answered, "No I can't..There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place for you here."
Love decided to ask Vanity, who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel, "Vanity, please help me!" "I can't help you Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat," Vanity answered.
Sadness was close by so Love asked for help, "Sadness let me go with you." "Oh...Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!"
Happiness passed by Love too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her!
Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come Love, I will take you." It was an elder. Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that he even forgot to ask the elder’s name.
When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own way. Love, realizing how much was owed the elder, asked Knowledge, another elder, "Who helped me?"
"It was Time," Knowledge answered.
"Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?
Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is.
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Jesus said, "A new commandment I give you; love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." John 13:34-35
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled WHAT HAS A LIFE OF ITS OWN
“The gossip was spreading like a wildfire.
Did you know our minister went to a meeting his wife was attending and that he highly disapproved? He publicly berated her and then completely lost control and dragged her bodily out of the meeting, put her in his car and drove her home.
At first the minister when he heard the story saw it as so ridiculous and unbelievable that he felt no one would believe it and simply ignored it.
But it had a life of its own and several people in the community as they spread the story beefed it up with more adjectives and colorful descriptions.
Finally the minister decided he had to do something.”
*******************************************
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.
**********************************************
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE. Added to daily!
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Are you chasing the perfect church, the perfect friend, the perfect mate?
And you say…of course not…but people do…or their comments certainly infer that is what they are doing.
And when we don’t find it we are too often less than understanding.
“That’s stupid” we say…meaning I would never do or say anything that stupid.
And at that moment we become Imperfection finding fault with imperfection.
And finding unhappiness also…a great deal of unhappiness.
And Jesus talks of ways to be less condemnatory…and thereby more content.
He talks of forgiving each other seventy times seven…
And practicing a special kind of love and understanding.
And we can do the math but we don’t complete the opportunity.
We condemn and find fault and give up on humanity and…
Some do more than others…but all stamp their foot in anger more often than pray a prayer for compassion.
And who are you in this condemnation game?
If you are a person who has pulled yourself up by your own bootstraps do you find yourself extremely condemnatory toward others who do not have your drive to succeed?
If you have a large savings account and your neighbor spurges on a new boat and a new television set and…what do you say when you speak of him?
What then are we called to as we live together and work together?
How can we learn to live with each others imperfections as we one and all stumble two steps forward and stumble back again another step.
How can we notice in others their forward progress or forgive them if seems they are making no forward progress at all.
By practicing love…there is that challenge again…the love Christ taught…when we feel like it …and when we don’t.
And this we should do…and this we must do…else we become hypocrites standing on the corner shouting “I am glad I am perfect and not like all the ignorant hyper sinners and malcontents all around me.”
I close with a story.
Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, and all of the others, including Love.
One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all repaired their boats and left.
Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to persevere until the last possible moment.
When the island was almost sinking, Love decided to ask for help.
Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said, "Richness, can you take me with you?"
Richness answered, "No I can't..There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place for you here."
Love decided to ask Vanity, who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel, "Vanity, please help me!" "I can't help you Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat," Vanity answered.
Sadness was close by so Love asked for help, "Sadness let me go with you." "Oh...Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!"
Happiness passed by Love too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her!
Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come Love, I will take you." It was an elder. Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that he even forgot to ask the elder’s name.
When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own way. Love, realizing how much was owed the elder, asked Knowledge, another elder, "Who helped me?"
"It was Time," Knowledge answered.
"Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?
Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is.
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Jesus said, "A new commandment I give you; love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." John 13:34-35
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled WHAT HAS A LIFE OF ITS OWN
“The gossip was spreading like a wildfire.
Did you know our minister went to a meeting his wife was attending and that he highly disapproved? He publicly berated her and then completely lost control and dragged her bodily out of the meeting, put her in his car and drove her home.
At first the minister when he heard the story saw it as so ridiculous and unbelievable that he felt no one would believe it and simply ignored it.
But it had a life of its own and several people in the community as they spread the story beefed it up with more adjectives and colorful descriptions.
Finally the minister decided he had to do something.”
*******************************************
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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Friday, November 12, 2010
LIVE IN SUCH A MANNER GOD CAN BELIEVE IN YOU
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In one of the late Lloyd Douglas’ novels, Dean Harcout says to a troubled man, “Don’t worry so much right now about believing in God; first conduct yourself in such a way that God can believe in you!”
God is trying to get some things done in this world, and His own self-imposed limitations make it impossible unless you back up some of your prayers with action.
So, don’t pray for God to put love in men’s hearts and then go out and practice prejudice.
Don’t pray for God’s church to have a greater impact on the community and society and then go out and do nothing yourself.
Don’t pray for God to give you a heavenly home and then go out and treat your husband, wife or children like hell.
The best of prayers must be followed by the best of actions for the best results.
Indeed...
Every morning lean your arms awhile
Upon the windowsill of Heaven
And gaze upon your Lord,
Then, with this vision in your heart,
Turn strong to meet the day.
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Matthew 7:24-27
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled PERFECTION IS THAT PERFECTION WAS?
"When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own way. Love, realizing how much he owed the elder, asked Knowledge, another elder, "Who helped me?"
"It was Time," Knowledge answered.
"Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?
Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is."
******************************************
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.
*********************************************
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.
**********************************
In one of the late Lloyd Douglas’ novels, Dean Harcout says to a troubled man, “Don’t worry so much right now about believing in God; first conduct yourself in such a way that God can believe in you!”
God is trying to get some things done in this world, and His own self-imposed limitations make it impossible unless you back up some of your prayers with action.
So, don’t pray for God to put love in men’s hearts and then go out and practice prejudice.
Don’t pray for God’s church to have a greater impact on the community and society and then go out and do nothing yourself.
Don’t pray for God to give you a heavenly home and then go out and treat your husband, wife or children like hell.
The best of prayers must be followed by the best of actions for the best results.
Indeed...
Every morning lean your arms awhile
Upon the windowsill of Heaven
And gaze upon your Lord,
Then, with this vision in your heart,
Turn strong to meet the day.
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Matthew 7:24-27
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG entitled PERFECTION IS THAT PERFECTION WAS?
"When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own way. Love, realizing how much he owed the elder, asked Knowledge, another elder, "Who helped me?"
"It was Time," Knowledge answered.
"Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?
Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is."
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A New Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
and will continue Each SUNDAY until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
To read these and a variety of topics
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Each Tuesday on Wyrick’s Writings there is a continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST ON MY SOUL.
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
SELF CONTROL ON THE WAY TO GOD CONTROL
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During his term as President of the U.S., Lyndon Johnson was somewhat overweight. One day his wife challenged him with this blunt assertion: "You can’t run the country if you can’t run yourself." Respecting Mrs. Johnson’s wise observation, the President lost 23 pounds.
If you can accept the basic principal that we all have areas in our lives that need better self controlling then continue on…
The great philosopher Aristotle said it “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.”
Galatians 5:22 puts it well, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness.” That’s a pretty good pay off when we have faced the challenge of self control in whatever area; mind, body or spirit.
The merchant had falsely accused an innocent Quaker and when the Quaker called at his home to explain, the merchant told his wife to tell the Quaker he was wasting his time and that he would not speak to him.
Calmly, the old Quaker spoke through the open door and said “God put thee in a better frame of mind, my friend.”
The patient reply so disturbed the merchant that after listening to the Quaker he profusely apologized.
He then asked the Old Quaker how he had been able to bear the abusive rejection of him.
The reply was priceless, “I have observed that one in passion always speaks much too loudly and to little benefit. Therefore, with God’s help, I continue to make an effort to use a moderate voice.”
The Quaker had learned that verse in the Bible that says “he that can rule his spirit is better than he that can conquer a city.
To achieve self-control one must have a goal. No goal…most likely no self control.
I will eat less. I will exercise more. I will be more patient. I will save more for my future. I will pursue my faith with due diligence. I will…
To achieve self-control one must have a goal. No goal…most likely no self control.
Would you gain more self control? Then consider that your heart is a large parcel of ground on which woods and brush have been growing for years and not always under control.
Now think back to the days of homesteading and ready yourself for the following analogy.
Imagine that you have your 160 acres and there are long and arduous days ahead. Trees must be felled, brush evacuated and most of all no roots or stumps can be left buried beneath it all.
Do this and your cleared land will not be cleared at all. In a very short time the area will be covered by a second growth because you did not use enough self discipline to do the job right in the first place.
So do it right the first time…or better still read Hebrews 12:15 “Looking diligently lest any fail of the grace of God; less any root of bitterness springing up, trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.”
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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 will 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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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE. (A new thought is added each day)
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During his term as President of the U.S., Lyndon Johnson was somewhat overweight. One day his wife challenged him with this blunt assertion: "You can’t run the country if you can’t run yourself." Respecting Mrs. Johnson’s wise observation, the President lost 23 pounds.
If you can accept the basic principal that we all have areas in our lives that need better self controlling then continue on…
The great philosopher Aristotle said it “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.”
Galatians 5:22 puts it well, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness.” That’s a pretty good pay off when we have faced the challenge of self control in whatever area; mind, body or spirit.
The merchant had falsely accused an innocent Quaker and when the Quaker called at his home to explain, the merchant told his wife to tell the Quaker he was wasting his time and that he would not speak to him.
Calmly, the old Quaker spoke through the open door and said “God put thee in a better frame of mind, my friend.”
The patient reply so disturbed the merchant that after listening to the Quaker he profusely apologized.
He then asked the Old Quaker how he had been able to bear the abusive rejection of him.
The reply was priceless, “I have observed that one in passion always speaks much too loudly and to little benefit. Therefore, with God’s help, I continue to make an effort to use a moderate voice.”
The Quaker had learned that verse in the Bible that says “he that can rule his spirit is better than he that can conquer a city.
To achieve self-control one must have a goal. No goal…most likely no self control.
I will eat less. I will exercise more. I will be more patient. I will save more for my future. I will pursue my faith with due diligence. I will…
To achieve self-control one must have a goal. No goal…most likely no self control.
Would you gain more self control? Then consider that your heart is a large parcel of ground on which woods and brush have been growing for years and not always under control.
Now think back to the days of homesteading and ready yourself for the following analogy.
Imagine that you have your 160 acres and there are long and arduous days ahead. Trees must be felled, brush evacuated and most of all no roots or stumps can be left buried beneath it all.
Do this and your cleared land will not be cleared at all. In a very short time the area will be covered by a second growth because you did not use enough self discipline to do the job right in the first place.
So do it right the first time…or better still read Hebrews 12:15 “Looking diligently lest any fail of the grace of God; less any root of bitterness springing up, trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.”
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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 will 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, November 10, 2010
YOU AND YOUR INFLUENCE
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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE. (A new thought is added each day)
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Many years ago, a boy ran away from home and became a seaman.
Once, while in port, he entered a church and at the service gave his heart to Christ.
Later he became a minister himself.
His messages inspired a young man named Thomas Scott to enter the ministry.
Scott in turn influenced Cowper, who wrote many of our most beautiful hymns.
Cowper inspired Wilberforce in his fight which led to the freeing of the slaves in England.
The domino affect is alive and well and you never know who is watching you and listening to you and being influenced by you.
“I am who I am because of who you are.” It may be a child who says that to you or thinks that of you and you may be that child’s mother or father or friend or someone of whom you are not aware and never will be.
We are all sales persons and most of the time we are not thinking of what we are selling…a way of life.
We are someone’s future because they have been studying our present and our past.
Whom we love the most and are loved by…they are who we influence so greatly either for the good, the bad or the in-between.
See that shadow on the ground? It stretches far and wide…it is our shadow of influence.
Henry Drummond was a very special man of God.
The following story about him explains this statement.
Late on a Saturday night, a woman knocked at his door and said the following, “My husband is diein’ Sir. He’s no able to speak to you and he’s no able to hear you and I dinna know as he can see you; but I would like him to have a breath o’ about him afore he dies.”
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Ephesians 3:17
”Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong.”
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Quotes from tomorrow’s blog entitled SELF CONTROL ON THE WAY TO GOD CONTROL
"To achieve self-control one must have a goal. No goal…most likely no self control.
Would you gain more self control?
Then consider that your heart is a large parcel of ground on which woods and brush have been growing for years and not always under control.
Now think back to the days of homesteading and ready yourself for the following analogy.
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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 will 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/
*********************************************
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE. (A new thought is added each day)
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Many years ago, a boy ran away from home and became a seaman.
Once, while in port, he entered a church and at the service gave his heart to Christ.
Later he became a minister himself.
His messages inspired a young man named Thomas Scott to enter the ministry.
Scott in turn influenced Cowper, who wrote many of our most beautiful hymns.
Cowper inspired Wilberforce in his fight which led to the freeing of the slaves in England.
The domino affect is alive and well and you never know who is watching you and listening to you and being influenced by you.
“I am who I am because of who you are.” It may be a child who says that to you or thinks that of you and you may be that child’s mother or father or friend or someone of whom you are not aware and never will be.
We are all sales persons and most of the time we are not thinking of what we are selling…a way of life.
We are someone’s future because they have been studying our present and our past.
Whom we love the most and are loved by…they are who we influence so greatly either for the good, the bad or the in-between.
See that shadow on the ground? It stretches far and wide…it is our shadow of influence.
Henry Drummond was a very special man of God.
The following story about him explains this statement.
Late on a Saturday night, a woman knocked at his door and said the following, “My husband is diein’ Sir. He’s no able to speak to you and he’s no able to hear you and I dinna know as he can see you; but I would like him to have a breath o’ about him afore he dies.”
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Ephesians 3:17
”Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong.”
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Quotes from tomorrow’s blog entitled SELF CONTROL ON THE WAY TO GOD CONTROL
"To achieve self-control one must have a goal. No goal…most likely no self control.
Would you gain more self control?
Then consider that your heart is a large parcel of ground on which woods and brush have been growing for years and not always under control.
Now think back to the days of homesteading and ready yourself for the following analogy.
**********************************************
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 will 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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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
CREATIVE IS BETTER THAN CANTANKEROUS
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There are creative ways to avoid letting things get out of hand.
One family I know of has a family whistle that hangs on a hook with the car keys.
When a family member is getting upset or has already achieved this dubious honor, he or she grabs the whistle and interrupts everyone with its screeching sound.
It is a signal…the signal is “I am getting mad and I want you to know why.”
Then as he or she speaks everyone is, according to the rules required to listen.
When he or she is finished, a rebuttal is allowed by anyone who wishes to speak.
The whistle blower must now listen without interrupting.
Everyone gets it off their chest. There is a time limit of two minutes max. They have learned that after that time one just keeps repeating the same problem couched in different terms.
They follow yet another rule. No one is to shout or underline their argument with curses.
Everyone, if possible tries to follow the philosophy, “If keep your mouth shut, you will never put your foot in it.” It helps them to monitor the content of what they are saying.
And most of the time it works.
If it doesn’t …now there is a new time limit, another two minutes allotted and the timer is started.
When it rings at the end of 30 minutes the arguments cease. Everything would just be counter productive.
Long before the 30 minutes are up most everyone has said everything there is to be said and several times over. But the 30 minutes is there and no one feels rushed in expressing their opinion.
Then everyone bows their heads and prays a prayer for patience and forgiveness.
Is there sometimes seething? Probably.
Does it work most of the time? I am told it does.
This family to reach this point had to have followed certain basics.
Each family member had to ask the question? Am I part of a solution or part of the problem?
Am I willing to be honest with myself in answering this question? Am I willing to do my part and even a little extra if another family member is holding back?
They didn’t reach where they are now without a lot of stumbling, two steps forwards and one step backwards…but oh what they have achieved.
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Ephesians 4:31-32 KJV)
”Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you”.
******************************************
Quotes from tomorrow’s blog entitled YOU AND YOUR INFLUENCE
“Whom you love the most and are loved by…they are who you influence so greatly either for the good, the bad or the in-between.”
*********************************************
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 will 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/
***************************************
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE. (A new thought is added each day)
************************************
There are creative ways to avoid letting things get out of hand.
One family I know of has a family whistle that hangs on a hook with the car keys.
When a family member is getting upset or has already achieved this dubious honor, he or she grabs the whistle and interrupts everyone with its screeching sound.
It is a signal…the signal is “I am getting mad and I want you to know why.”
Then as he or she speaks everyone is, according to the rules required to listen.
When he or she is finished, a rebuttal is allowed by anyone who wishes to speak.
The whistle blower must now listen without interrupting.
Everyone gets it off their chest. There is a time limit of two minutes max. They have learned that after that time one just keeps repeating the same problem couched in different terms.
They follow yet another rule. No one is to shout or underline their argument with curses.
Everyone, if possible tries to follow the philosophy, “If keep your mouth shut, you will never put your foot in it.” It helps them to monitor the content of what they are saying.
And most of the time it works.
If it doesn’t …now there is a new time limit, another two minutes allotted and the timer is started.
When it rings at the end of 30 minutes the arguments cease. Everything would just be counter productive.
Long before the 30 minutes are up most everyone has said everything there is to be said and several times over. But the 30 minutes is there and no one feels rushed in expressing their opinion.
Then everyone bows their heads and prays a prayer for patience and forgiveness.
Is there sometimes seething? Probably.
Does it work most of the time? I am told it does.
This family to reach this point had to have followed certain basics.
Each family member had to ask the question? Am I part of a solution or part of the problem?
Am I willing to be honest with myself in answering this question? Am I willing to do my part and even a little extra if another family member is holding back?
They didn’t reach where they are now without a lot of stumbling, two steps forwards and one step backwards…but oh what they have achieved.
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Ephesians 4:31-32 KJV)
”Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you”.
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Quotes from tomorrow’s blog entitled YOU AND YOUR INFLUENCE
“Whom you love the most and are loved by…they are who you influence so greatly either for the good, the bad or the in-between.”
*********************************************
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 will 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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