AN ADVENTURE CALLED PRAYER

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 PRAYER IS AN ADVENTURE

      It is a step into the unknown for better knowing.

It begins, tender and young, in the first brush with vocal thought-

two small chubby hands raised while one small Voice says,

 "Now I lay me down to sleep,"

 It ends one final day as these same hands,

grown old, feeble but with faith,

 grasp God's hand to say, . '1 am ready. I am ready,"

     Grown men sometimes cry when they pray, as deep wellsprings overflow their pride and make their foolish doubts waver in the wind.

     Prayer is a touch of God, and no heart can ignore this touch of destiny without loss,

Your most honest moments are when you pray; your true greatness is found in this time of humility,

     You never stand so tall as when you kneel. For to pray to God is to cease -trying to act like a god.,

     The mountain is more clear against the heavens and has more .meaning,

     The brook speaks a message of never-ending beauty.' Immortality pulses with the temporal heart in such a choice of doing.

     Prayer paints every scene

with a new joy and peace, and gives you the chance to find, to understand the best that is within YOU,

     It is not to say that prayer is a happiness pill to be taken; it is an experience to be found.

     With each added prayer one sees less and less "as through a glass darkly,"

     To have denied yourself the privilege of prayer is not to have lived; . . it is to have suffered from malnutrition of the soul; it is to have crippled the heart-strings so they are out of tune with your Maker.

     To have denied yourself the privilege of prayer is to have denied a rightful heritage, a gift of God not made from hands. but formed in heaven, a lifeline between the temporal and the eternal, a treasure incorruptible and with power to change lives.

     So then may every head be bowed and every heart be free and every soul be open to the refreshing, glad and miraculous experience

     of the adventure called Prayer.

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"Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understanding and appreciation of Lincoln while revealing the Divine source of his strength."

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 "The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is an extremely well written book that investigates what might be termed the spiritual side of President Lincoln. It's both scholarly and very readable. I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of the President and with an altered and enlarged vision of the man:'

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"Wyrick has authored a wonderful examination of the spirituality of one of American history's most devoutly religious leaders...a pleasant and readable book that has a rich depth of information."

   Maynard Pittendreigh Presbyterian minister

         "When it comes to invoking religion in support of any of their decisions, politicians need to sit at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr once called him 'America's greatest theologian.' Why so great? Because he invariably distinguished between human works and the works of the Almighty. As Wyrick says, 'He wore the mantle of humility easily: because he was more impressed with what God was doing in the world than with what he, president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis, was doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between both human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes.' Lincoln would have agreed that it is better to leave God-talk out of politics than to decorate human proposals with divinity. This is a book for our American time. Through his careful study of Lincoln's career, Wyrick compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when piety transcends politics."

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Emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Author of An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics

        "v. Neil Wyrick's fine work allows the reader to appreciate Abraham Lincoln's Christian commitment and his prophetic role in American history. Should have a wide readership."

James H. Smylie Professor of Church History (Ret.) Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia

        "Neil Wyrick's The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln should be read by anyone attempting to understand the man who was probably the most complex person to ever hold the office of president of the United States. Dr. Wyrick is intent on demonstrating that the spirituality so often expressed in Lincoln's writings and speeches was not merely lip service to a Deity, but rather expressions of a profound faith in a real God. It was this faith that provided the wisdom, compassion, insight and sometimes steel that Lincoln would need in full measure as he led the United States through the Civil War. Dr. Wyrick's clear and unpretentious style of presentation is very much in keeping with the character ofhis subject, and in so doing, Wyrick makes his point very well that Lincoln, his beliefs, and the faith that formed them, are as relevant to a troubled America in 2004 as they were in 1863."

Daniel Allen Butler, author of "Unsinkable"; The Full Story of the RMS Titanic, The Lusitania and The Age o f Cunard