A PAINTER CALLED GOD

" ONE LINERS FOR YOUR SOUL" & ONE A DAY

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

      one liners FOR THE SOUL

   WILL WE EVER LEARN?

      It goes without saying that questions come easier than answers and that peace comes slower than most war’s beginnings.

      Like all wars, when the Civil War began incredibly, few had envisioned all the maimed and wounded on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. Bullets would now proliferate because ballots had failed, until finally one day, like all wars, it would come to a final bitter end.

In Washington there was nothing Lincoln could do when things in the field got out of hand.  He was their Commander-in-Chief, but he could not be everywhere.  He could speak with an unrelenting concern, but his words could not control every soldier dressed in blue.  He watched and prayed that the weariness of war, if not wisdom, would make it all soon come to an end. And when that finally happened, that good men in both North and South would outnumber the bad.

“Lincoln believed that “We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”  And, “I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.  My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.”

And so it is with all these men elected to this high and conflicted office; they bring to it, because they are human, their prejudices and insights forged from their childhood way of living. 

They grow old and weary at their task and the patience of the people who elected them grows thin and fades away.  And no one seems to learn or apply the old lesson that those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.

...YOUR 'ONE A DAY' for Today

A PAINTER CALLED GOD

(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) is available on his blog Wyrick’s Writings.

To view this blog CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL
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C.K. Chesterton speaks of God’s forgiveness in this way, “God paints in many colors, but He never paints so gorgeously as when He paints in white.”

The prophet Isaiah said the same thing in yet another way, “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as while as snow; though they be red like crimson, tney shall be as wool (Isaiah 1:18)

And God forgets as well as He forgives (Isaiah 43:25) “I, even I, am He that bloteh out thy transgressions and I will not remember thy sins.”

It is all there but it takes one final scripture and your affirmation of it, to tie it all together. (Psalm 56:11) “In God have I put my trust; I will not be afraid what m,an can do unto me.”

Do that! Bury your guilt. Let yesterday be a teacher, not a tyrant. Let tomorrow be an opportunity, not a regret! Trust God and build a new you from such a foundation of trust.

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Just have them go to Google Search and type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”.

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

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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.
       click on the FOLLOWING URL

http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/

     to go to Rev. Wyrick's other blog

Wyrick's Writings

            Check out Neil's 2 still available books on amazon.com.    

THERE ARE OTHER USED COPIES OF HIS 7 OTHER USED BOOKS AT MANY SITES

       THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN (AVAILLABLE ON KINDLE) & BEN FRANKLIN'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20TH CENTURY

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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