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Frederick William IV of Prussia once visited a school and asked the children some questions. Pointing to the stone in his ring, a flower in his button hole, and a bird that flew past the window, he asked to what kingdom each of them belonged. The children were proficient in their answers for they replied, the mineral, the vegetable, and the animal kingdoms. Then Frederick ask them, "To what Kingdom do I belong?"
There are 4 kingdoms a man may choose, and all 4 are chosen by various folk.
For there are thosewho are very much a part of the mineral kingdom. They are hard like the mineral, unfeeling like the mineral, with much shine and no soul like the mineral. They often even atheistically declare they a:re no more than a few chemicals thrown together for awhile.
And there are those who much like the vegetable kingdom to which they consciously or subconsciously follow.
They do not live, they vegetate.
They are soft, lacking even the hardness of the atheist. They lack any enthusiasm for anything, God, man, work, play. They exist.
And there are those who belong to the animal kingdom. They follow the philosophy which cries, "Survival of the fittest." They are loners in a world made for fellowship. Friends are to be milked for all they are worth, man is a pawn to be played with on the great chessboard of life. God and religion are useful ends to a selfish self-centered goal. As some animals, such men sometimes may be clever, and cunning, and even very likeable, but having denied that they have a soul they are glad to see it die.
And then are those who speak with Paul in Romans when he says: "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ."
Sometimes man, tries the impossible task of having his feet in all kingdoms at once. He then becomes like a race horse trying to win and lose at the same time. He becomes like a piece of ice trying to remain hard and cold and still melt to aid the dry earth.
He is like the proverbial cow who stood between two hunks of hay seeking to decide which one to eat from, until he starved to death. .
About the only way to keep in contact with all 4 kingdoms \.i is to go around in circles. And anyone knows that go to around in circles is to get very dizzy very fast.
The famous story "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" followed and interesting theme, but what a horrible tale.
A man caught between good and evil, two men in one, a split personality that never knew the strength of its other self. Each one of us has the strength of another self. For we are a combination c£ good and evil, of wrong and right,
It is only by choosing what kingdom we shall seek, that we determine what kind of an individual we shall be and what kind of a life we shall live.
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QUOTE FROM THOUGHT PIECE POSTED ON WYRICK'S WRITINGS THURSDAY APRIL 5 FROM THOUGHT ENTITLED "Who Are You? Whose Are You?"
This is an old quote, and a romantic one as well but, nevertheless, can anyone say of you, “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
QUOTE FROM THOUGHT PIECE POSTED ON WYRICK'S WRITINGS TUESDAY APRIL 3 FROM THOUGHT ENTITLED
" WHEN A NATION STRAYS TOO FAR FROM BEING MORAL IT IS WELL ON IT'S WAY TO BECOMING A MESS
James 4:17
To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
Someone once said: “A belief is what you hold, a conviction is what holds you!”
So what holds you, constructs you, leads you with a push when needed?
Quotes POSTED ON WYRICK'S WRITING THURSDAY MARCH 29th THOUGHTS ENTITLED WHO ARE YOU?
NO…WHOSE ARE YOU?
In a Peanuts cartoon strip Peppermint Patty is shown talking to Charlie Brown.
“Guess what, Chuck? It’s the first day of school and I got sent to the principal’s office.
And it’s your fault!”
Charlie Brown responds, “My fault? How could it be my fault? Why do you say everything is my fault?”
To which she declares, “You’re my friend, aren’t you, Chuck? You should have been a better influence on me.”
In the comics, it’s funny… but in real life it’s much more complicated.
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