Saturday, December 15, 2012

HOW MANY DUMB MISTAKES HAVE YOU MADE RECENTLY?

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TO ERR IS HUMAN; TO DEVELOP A STRATEGY TO MAKE IT LESS SO IS DIVINE (LIGHTARTER SUE)
        How many dumb mistakes have you made recently? 

       In a lifetime... the list for all of us is long... and we all keep on making it longer.

       So what we need is more wisdom and less absent mindedness.

       But don't hold your breath. Perfection isn't going to become a permanent resident in the lives of any of us.

       The best we can do is learn from our mistakes and make less of them.

       Which means we have to apply the first rule for acquiring at least some wisdom, "When we make a mistake...don't blame other people or overwhelmed them with a barrage of excuses.  To conquer a mistake one has to identify it."

       It is disconcerting to have to admit it...but our brains do seem to be wired to err...while the world stands ready to feed it ammunition.

       And what area serves up most of your mistkes.  

Got a problem with keeping your records, putting the proper figure on your payment checks, etc.?

       Try doing this kind of thing when you are rested (say the weekend).

       Tired people aren't good problem solvers...rather they are just angry frustration makers.

       And when you recheck whatever...put some time between what you just did and your rechecking.

       As a writer I find I do a much better job of editing the next day...otherwise I just duplicate or am blind to the same error I just made a few minutes ago.

       Actually the best job of editing is done by my wife (perhaps in your case, someone else than you checking over what you did; mental, manual, etc.) who views what I have done from a point of view I cannot possibly find.

       If you are reading instructions for a task...read them out loud.  It is not as easy to let your mind wander when you verbalize.

        You don't want other people to hear you reading out loud...whisper...it works just as well.

       Do you wait at stoplights?  Why? To avoid disaster!

       Same with decisions.  Run a decision by at warp speed and the odds for disaster automatically go up.

       We've all said, "I wish I'd waited and thought a little longer before I...."

       So...yes...think a decision through...weigh it and wait it out...if you can afford 24 hours before jumping off a cliff...wait...then you will either decide not to jump or at least you will have decided to get a parachute.

`     And always bring God in as an advisor before a final decision... not afterwards for forgiveness.

       Face it...if there are two ways to do something and one of them is right and one of them is wrong...you have a 50% chance of making the wrong choice.

       Prov 22:3 speaks a truth when it reads...
            " A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it."

       Have you ever done that?  Rushed pell-mell toward disaster while knowing that was what you were doing... all the time you were doing it?

       Is it true that an ounce of preventing is worth a pound of cure?

       I guess we all need to become the intelligent monkey in the zoo, "Monkey see...monkey not do."

       I have what I call a dual prayer that I often pray.  "Lord...Don't just lead me.  When necessary I will appreciate a push toward common sense."

QUOTES ON MAKING MISTAKES

       The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927

       If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. ~F. Wikzek

       An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. ~Niels Bohr

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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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·         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

 

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

 

      

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