CRUELTY FOR DINNER

" ONE LINERS FOR YOUR SOUL"

              Take these two seeds of thought below and turn THEM into a wisdom tree.

     tu april 23 2013

LOVE

Love has good manners…yet too often I hear Christian husbands and wives belittling each other.  And children rudely being told they are no good.  And children allowed to be brats.  And rude employers and rude employees.  The list of areas where manners need to be improved is endless.  

        BELOW IS...YOUR 'ONE A DAY' for Today

CRUELTY FOR DINNER 

These thoughts are added to each day. Scroll down and read previous One A Days.)

(Use in your personal or church newsletters) (365 stories a year)

Serialization of Neil’s Internationally Distributed Novel (Rust On My Soul) (Published by Bridge Press(1985) starts on his blog Wyrick’s Writings Tuesday April 13th and continues each Tuesday until finished. Thursday and Sunday will continue to cover a variety of subjects.

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The frail old man had gone to live with his son, daughter-in-law and four –year old grandson. The old man’s hands trembled, his eyesight translated everything into a blur and each step seemed as if it might be his last.

The family ate together at the table every night but the grandfather’s shaky hands and failing sight made eating an adventure in one failure after the other.

Food dropped consistently on the floor as it never made its way to his mouth. Milk was spilled because his shaky hands could not hold the glass steadily.

Each night the irritation of the old man’s children became more and more and their patience less and less.

Finally the son said “We must do something about grandfather.”

So from that night on they set a small table in the corner away from the family where he began to eat alone while the rest of the family enjoyed their meal. And since he had broken a dish or two, his food now was served in a wooden bowl.

Sometimes which was seldom when they cast a glance in his direction they could detect tears in his eyes and sometimes a tear trickled down his cheek and into the wooden bowl.

Still the only words he heard from the couple were angry words when he dropped a utensil or spilled food.

Their four year old watched in silence.

One evening after dinner the couple looked at their four year old son playing with wood scraps in the corner. “What are you doing they asked?”

“Oh, I’m trying to figure out how to make a wooden bowl for each of you so that when you get older you will have something to put your food in.”

It was the last night the grandfather ate his meals in the corner alone.

1 John 3:18 NRSV:
”Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.”

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Have you considered sharing this site with family or friends? Just have them go to Google Search and type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”.

OR HAVE THEM CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URLhttp://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com

And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.

DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE.

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BELOW ARE SOME OF THE RAVE REVIEWS ABOUT "THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN."

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"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 Lincolnshould 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 fullmeasure 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