Monday, December 17, 2012

NO EXCUSES FOR EXCUSES


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  Are excuses any way to run a successful life?

       The old Arab asked the younger Arab "Will you lend me your rope?"

       "Can't" came back the reply.

       "Why not?"

       "I must tie up my milk."

       "That doesn't make any sense."

       "Well...When you don't want to do something, one reason is as good as another."

       Do you major in excuses?

       And is that any way to run a successful life?

       Have you arrived yet?

       Which is another way of asking... have you fully accomplished or at least are working at becoming the best "you" available?

       If not...what are you going to do about it besides making excuses?

       Well, first be a work in progress...everything from losing weight to breaking free of some bad habits to...

       Hey...Henry Ford put it well "Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.”

       Watch out...Don't let the excuse bug bite you!

       Rather apply some wisdom lotion...

        See yourself as a winner because the future is wide open...don't chain yourself to the past because of some mistake you made...yesterday should be a teacher...not a ball and chain.

       You sinned in the past.  Welcome aboard the human race.  "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God."  Romans 3:23

       So accept God's forgiveness and move ahead.

       And then have a dialogue with yourself...because there are questions you can ask to help you learn from those past mistakes.

       1.  What motivated me to do the deed or say the phrase?

       2. What could I have done differently?

       Just remember...Excuses are the quitters refrain.  Think about that.

       Each day all day long you have two choices to make...a sense of responsibility...or excuses.

       How do you stop making excuses?  STOP MAKING EXCUSES.

       Make a pledge to shut up when an excuse has started to make its way out of your mind and mouth.

       Don't analyze it.  Don't build excuses for making excuses.  Just go cold turkey to break this habit that wrecks any chance of repentance and redemption.

       And pray...pray for help...pray consistently...double and triple your prayer time...you can make a life...and a better life...that is if you aren't burdened by excuses.

       QUOTES ON EXCUSES

       Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. ~Don Wilder and Bill Rechin

       He who excuses himself accuses himself. ~Gabriel Meurier, Trésor des sentences

       Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb

       No one ever excused his way to success. ~Dave Del Dotto

       I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. ~Florence Nightingale
 
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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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