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I am the family circle. I am as 'large as the need, as wide as the heart, as high as the mantle of the sky. I am warm before a fire on a winter night. I am bright with activity before morning's bright glow. I am the roots of millions of men and women scattered throughout this world.
I hold the quiet grave moments of pain, the small, personal humor of treasured moments, the settings for a thousand little acts of living.
Not by chance have I learned my love. For I have made the quilt of ever- growing time with the thin -thread of golden memories, the scarlet thread from the rivers of the heart, the multi-colored threads of a thousand secrets shared.
I serve the living and the dead and the yet-to:-be. For I echo the truth of history, ring with the vitality of today, and hold quietly the promise and hope of tomorrow.
Indeed, I extend from the clear and present moments of now to the hazy, almost forgotten moments of yesteryear.
To the captain marked with the salt of a hundred seas, to the smooth-faced youth in the lonely comers of this world, to the father no further away than five o'clock, I am where men turn in reality and in their dreams.
My language is "all the languages of the world." My cloak is the shout of the gypsy skirt, the prim lace of a mountain maid, the grey flannel of a concrete city. My customs are as varied as the patterns of the sky.
I am the family circle. I am not perfect, for those within my circled realm are not perfect. Sometimes I am loud, unkind, and even cruel. But still I channel the grace of forgiveness, and guard the throne of understanding, the hearthstone of men's hopes and dreams. Without me, man is like a star without a sky...without me, man is very alone.
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Unfortunately, I have lost the name of the author of the following story, but it could have been written by many. And I am not recommending poverty when I share it, but listen deep and think about the message it sends
“Take somebody who knows what it means to walk to school with a lunch wrapped up in a little brown greasy bag; somebody who knows what it means to be required to move but nowhere to move to; somebody who knows what it means to be forced to pay up but with nothing to pay down; somebody who knows what it means to wet their pillows with the midnight dew.
“Take somebody like that, and you will find passion, you will find feeling. For people like that, God is real; they live on the edge. Life is not boring for those who know they are needy.”
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"Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understanding and appreciation of Lincoln while revealing the Divine source of his strength."
Lt. Colonel C.A. Olsen (Ret.) Asbury College (Professor Ret.)
"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:'
William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer; author of Blood and Guile, and Wild Thorn
"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."
Dr. Donald W. Shriver
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
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