Thursday, December 20, 2012

IS IT EASIER TO DO "DON'TS" THAN TO NOT DO "DO'S"

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She thought the professor was joking.  He wasn't...and as she thought about it she realized why.  Then she wrote...
""During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?"      Surely this was a joke.
       I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank.
       Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade.        "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. (~Joann C. Jones)
       Sometimes it is easier to do "Don'ts" than to not  do "Do's"
       Proactive Christianity does "do's"  It requires effort rather than just quoting scripture.  It visits the sick in hospital, feeds the homeless from a bread line rather than just talk about good deeds in a church meeting.  It looks for places to serve rather than excuses for a lifetime of nothingness.
        "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.      As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith." (Galatians 6:9-10)
       Let's get one thing straight....our great purpose and privilege in life is to serve and do the will of  our heavenly Father...but in the process... not forget that we are also called to help people... on behalf of this Almighty God.
       Indeed...think of it this way..do you want to be a Good Samaritans or an uncaring Barbarian?
       An old man was standing on a crowded bus. A young man standing next to him asked, “What time is it?”
       The old man said nothing. As the young man walked away, the old man’s friend asked, “Why were you so rude to the young man?”
       The old man answered, “If I had given him the time of day, he’d want to know where I am going.
       Then we might talk about our interests. If we did that he might invite himself to my house for dinner.
       If he came to my house, he would meet my lovely daughter.
       If he met her, they would both fall in love and frankly,
       I don’t want my daughter marrying someone who can’t afford a watch.
       A foolish story? 
       People use all kind of foolish reasons not to help people.  They do it all the time.
       It's calling caring about someone else as much as self.  "Love thy neighbor as thyself" is the way it reads.
       When you see an accident on the highway does your neck turn to rubber?  But you have no intention of stopping to help.  After all the minutes following the moment of curiosity are filled with a host of very important things to do.
       And what could you do anyway.
       Hold a hand?  Speak a reassuring word. 
       But don't feel bad...people drive by accident victims all the time.
       How often do you give birth to kindness?  How often is your life an incubator for small babies of compassion that if fed will grow into adult concern.
       M.T.E.  That's what helping other people always cost and many are not even willing to look at the cost let alone pay it.  What is M.T.E.  Money...Time...Energy.
       If on the other hand you have made a habit of helping people for decades and now the years are stealing some of that energy...what to do?
       SLOW DOWN...JUST DON'T COME TO A SCREEING HALT.
              Perhaps you should seek out a different service.  You've been teaching Sunday School for years and your patience with the youngsters is wearing thin.  Volunteer somewhere else in the church.
       You've been actively engaged in a charity or good deeds to neighbors.  Keep doing good...just wrap your good deeds  in different challenges.
       Remember that variety is the spice of life ...and that is true of good deeds as well.
       John Wesley said it so very well when he wrote...
       Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
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QUOTES ABOUT DOING GOOD
       Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Mohammad Ali
       Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. ~Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
       Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ~Jesse Jackson
       It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~Author Unknown
       Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
       Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are. ~Author Unknown
       Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
       Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how. ~Author Unknown
       The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye
       How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver
       You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
       By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. ~Winston Churchill
       Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. ~Henry James
       The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid. ~Author Unknown
           
           
         
         
         



 

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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

 

       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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