MORE ON THAT FRIEND CALLED COURAGE …

******************************* IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE. ********************************* There are over 600 stories and commentaries on this blog that began Nov 24, 2009. It is added to daily. ************************************* I have spoken thousands of times before audiences as large as 5000 and I hark back to that time when as a lad of 12 I actually preached a full fledged sermon in church. My knees shook so badly I thought they would come lose from my legs…but I kept on speaking every chance I got…and my legs finally stopped shaking…and after many years one day I wasn’t nervous anymore. I rid myself of this fear by acting as if I had rid myself of this fear…until it finally became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Patience. None of us get over a fear overnight. Some parts of a fear can linger for what seems forever. But if we cannot completely rid ourselves of this emotional wound we can gain the ability to live with it and be the better for the courage to do even that. Don’t hold fear in your hands. Don’t give it that kind of respect. Push it away again and again and again…and again and again…never make it welcome… by default. Fear is a bully. Remember that. Fear is a bully. And bullies lose their power when you ignore them or at least try to ignore them. It was a Broadway musical written in 1978, the composer Jerry Herman. Here are his words. May they serve as a reminder of the power of hope and trust in the face of fear and danger. Hope "I'll be here tomorrow, alive and well and thriving. I'll be here tomorrow, it's simply called surviving. If before the dawn this fragile world might crack, someone's got to try to put the pieces back. So, from beneath the rubble you'll hear a little voice say, 'Life is worth the trouble, have you a better choice?' So let the skeptics say tonight we're dead and gone, I'll be here tomorrow simply going on." ******************************* DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ STARTED SUNDAY on his other blog WYRICK’S WRITINGS…MARCH 5, 2011 Serialization of another of his books SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING To read this book CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com MANY OF THE IDEAS IN THIS BOOK FOR BETTER LIVING ARE GOOD FOR ANY AGE. This book is about dealing positively with the challenges of getting older and fosters the belief that “If we would have new knowledge, we must get a world of new questions.” (Susanne K. Langer) Some quotes from the book. Keep both eyes on life, and not on the calendar. Admit your age, but don’t admit to the fallacy that you have to act like it. Saying, “I’m 39 and holding,” is more tragic than humorous because it argues that age has no attributes. “Be like the farmer who, when asked what he was building, replied, “if I can rent it, it’s a rustic cottage. If I can’t, it’s a cow shed.” It’s called attitude and it can make us prematurely old or longer young. For truly, things aren’t just what they are, but rather how we choose to see them.” ******************************* A quote below from tomorrow’s ONE A DAY blog entitled THE TRIP “He reached down and picked up the strange looking mechanism that kept trying to roll away from his grasp. It was some kind of flying machine. It was still warm from having entered their 237 degree atmosphere. The three suns in the sky seemed always to be doing battle with each other. “What is it?” his companion asked with the trace of what might have been called a smile of anticipation. “It is from earth.” Both of them raised their eyebrow. “Have you ever been to Earth? It is not the first. " They both knew lots about earth. All those messages coming more and more and three of their kind had visited, but never again.” …” ************************* To access info about his other book’s; BOUNDARIES UNLIMITED, RUST ON MY SOUL, POOR RICHARD’S ALMANAC, I AM SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING, THE ABC’S OF PARENTING AND GRANDPARENTING, LETTERS TO AMERICA…go to Amazon.com (books) and type in Neil Wyrick. ************************ TO VISIT T Neil’s other blog WYRICK’S WRITING (A variety of serializations; a novel on Sunday and Tuesday and Thursday varying subjects) (3 times a week added to) CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com **************************** CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING http://www.speakerneil.com/ **************************************** V. Neil Wyrick’s ninth book THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN and is available at MAGNUS PRESS. THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM’S Kindle To visit their Web Page click on the URL below http://www.magnuspress.com/OurProducts2.html 25% off all books, buy 4 get 1 free and free shipping Winter Sale through March Phone Orders: 800-463-7818 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++