Friday, June 14, 2013

CONFLICTED CONSCIENCE


" ONE LINERS FOR YOUR SOUL" & ONE A DAY

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

      one liners FOR YOUR SOUL

Would you like to earn a PhD in worry?

Well, start off your thesis with the following quote..." Worry is the darkroom in which "negatives" are developed

      ...BELOW  is YOUR 'ONE A DAY' for Today
CONFLICTED CONSCIENCE

(Use in your personal or church newsletters) (365 stories a year)
 Wyrick’s Writings.

To view the blog CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL

http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/

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A certain governor of Texas one day visited a state penitentiary; it was his plan, unknown to the prisoners, to grant a special pardon that day.

As he talked with man after man they all vehemently declared their innocence.

It was societies fault; they were framed; no one understood, they’d never been given a chance.

Finally, just as he was about to leave
, he noticed one forlorn little man hovering in the shadows.

When he questioned him as to his crime and his built, the little man replied, “I’m guilty. They let me off light for what I did.”

The governor knew immediately what he must do. It was this man to whom he gave the pardon.

“He was the only one worthy of a pardon. He was the only one willing to admit his guilt.” he always answered when asked “Why this man?”

There is an old Arab proverb that speaks to why so many are unable to admit they are wrong and instead just make excuses.

In this parable one Arab asks of another Arab if he can borrow his rope.

“I am sorry,” replies the other Arab, “but I have need of it to tie up my milk.”

“Tie up your milk?” puzzled the first shiek. “But surely you do not use a rope to tie up your milk.”

“Well,” came back a classic reply, “when you don’t want to do something, one reason is as good as another.”

When anyone does not want to give up his or her sins and take in God’s forgiveness, when Christ stands on the hill-top and a person prefers to hide in the shadows, it might well be said that one reason is as good as another.

Except that no reason that is really just an excuse and hat takes one away from God and God’s forgiveness is reasonable.

Your conscience may bother you and sometimes you may weary of its bothering, but be glad of this moral whisper of God within you. For when it dies you die.

The poet Kipling once wrote, “Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, where there ain’t no Ten Commandments, and a man can raise a thirst.”

But can anyone truly recommend this kind of a journey?

Psalm 19:7 “The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the
LORD is sure, making wise the simple-“
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Just have them go to Google Search and type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”

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     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.
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       click on the FOLLOWING URL


     to go to Rev. Wyrick's other blog

Wyrick's Writings

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

       ORDER FROM THE AUTHOR AND RECEIVE AN AUTOGRAHED COPY and special author's price ($5 for Lincoln book $8 for Lincoln and Franklin book)($2 postage and handling) "You write what you want the autograph to read "To (insert name) Author's signature."

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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

 


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