Saturday, December 29, 2012

HOW IS YOUR HEALTH THESE DAYS?


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        Below the thoughts below read a quote from Rev. Wyrick's applauded 9th book THE SPIRITUAL ARAHAM LINCOLN

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Our son recently had motor problems on his boat.  It was a relatively easy process to heal the matter.  Just replace the ailing part.
The same, however, is not so true with man...and to make a particular point allow me to relate the following story.
Forain, a famous French artist had turned the pages of many calendars and now in his old age he was growing daily more ill.
His doctors diligently began to probe and ponder what was wrong so they could make him again prosper with better health.
He was examined by heart specialist, lung specialist, kidney specialist and indeed every kind of specialist who at that time was known to man.
They all reached the same conclusion.  They could find nothing wrong.
Whereupon Forain commented, "Well then, from what you say, I am dying of perfect health."
And people can do that and do that.  Forgetting they are both soul as well as body they get a clean bill of health at the doctor's office but no diagnosis of a shriveled soul.
It is an extreme statement but one made by an imminent Psychologist and Psychiatrist of the early 20th Century; Dr C. J. Jung.
"Each of my patients past 35 years of age have fallen ill because he has lost a religious outlook on life.  Side by side with the decline of religious life, the neuroses grow noticeably more frequent."
Though many if not most of you are younger than me and therefore even further removed from what happened a century ago...I refer to a great explorer Admiral Byrd (Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN was an American naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration. He was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics  who died in 1957)
This man of extreme courage and perseverance when he picked men to go with him on his hazardous journeys had certain parameters that had to be met.
A polar expedition would push a man to his limits.
Therefore...
first he required that anyone who went with him have a firm attitude of hope, faith and a complete trust in God.
For the questions had to be asked and the answers  positive.
Could he stand up against overwhelming difficulties?
Could he withstand long hard cold nights and withering arctic storms both night and day?
Could he stand being coped up in tight spaces with other men for weeks on end?
Could he live with the possibility that he might not survive?
Admiral Byrd knew that muscle and mind were not in themselves enough.
He knew that to have the best men for the task he needed to gather around him those who had the trinity of completeness.
...which only the soul could give.
There are those tragic souls who truly believe they are no more than an intelligent machine, clinging to the epidermis of a minor planet called earth...and they are thereby handicapped...and not up to handling a gentler mother earth let alone an arctic clime.
What can be done to improve the health of any and all upon planet earth?
Worship!
Worship?
Yes...worship...and what is that? 
"It is that which quickens the conscience to the holiness of God, feeds the mind with the truth of God, purges the imagination by the beauty of God, opens the heart to the love of God and devotes the will to the purpose of God." William Temple, Nature, Man and God
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QUOTES ON GOOD HEALTH
The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson
A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. ~John Steinbeck
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. ~Cicero


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Below is a quote from Rev. Wyrick's 9th book THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

      It is little wonder that once the war was over, wretched memories fed anger loud and long.  Neither side could be proud of some things that happened during the war or at their many prison camps.  The meanness in some men had multiplied.  They felt their uniforms allowed it.

Andersonville, or Camp Sumter as it was officially known, in southwest Georgia is remembered as one of the worst. 

By the end of the war, it had held 50,000 prisoners on a piece of land no larger than twenty-six acres. 

Some men had called pits in the ground their home.  During its short fourteen-month existence, 13,000 soldiers who had survived in battle died in captivity under the most terrible conditions. 

When the war was over the superintendent was hanged.

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      WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK

       "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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Recent articles Rev. Wyrick has written for this web site are:  REFLECTIONS


·         Here Comes Summer (July 2012)

·         Spring (May 2012)

·         Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow (April 2012)

·         Wayward and Windy (April 2012)

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      Some of the sermon titles posted recently on Wyrick's Writings


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BELOW ARE MORE QUOTES FROM NEIL'S RECENTLY POSTED SERMONS on Wyrick's Writings

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A QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS POSTED ON MY OTHER BLOG WYRICK'S WRITINGS ON SUNDAY APRIL 15. ENTITILED

 

       Two stores faced each other across a very busy street.  Their owners were in constant competition with each other.  One day, the owner of one store put out a sign that read – If you want it, we have it!

Almost immediately the other owner put out a sign –If we don’t have it, you don’t need it!

 

      

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       QUOTES ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL INSPIRING INFORMATIVE book

       STILL RECEIVING RAVE REVIEWS 8 YEARS AFTER IT'S PUBLICATION.

      

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