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ASPIRATION
It is easy to fall. All you have to do is not look where you're going and then let gravity.
I proved this last spring when I fell down some steps and broke my hip.
Which leads us to why goals are so important. Not whether they are large or small...but that they exist.
On
June 4, 1783 at the market square of a French village of Annonay, not
far from Paris, a smoky bonfire on a raised platform was fed by wet
straw and old wool rages.
Tethered above, straining its lines, was a huge taffeta bag 33 feet in diameter.
Many
of the observers just shook their heads and clicked their tongues. “How
could any man make such a claim?” Yet, they continued to gather
throughout the day.
However,
as the flames were fanned and the balloon began to pull tightly and
forcibly against the basket, the skeptics began to change their minds as
they saw the basket begin to lift itself up slightly above the ground,
straining at its tethers.
Then,
in the presence of “a respectable assembly and a great many other
people,” and accompanied by great cheering, the balloon was cut from its
moorings and set free to rise majestically into the noon sky. Six
thousand feet into the air it went -- the first public ascent of a
balloon, the first step in the history of human flight.
It
came to earth several miles away in a field, where it was promptly
attacked by pitchfork-waving peasants and torn to pieces as an
instrument of evil!
How often this happens. Someone
has a dream...and their aspiration is too much of those of little
minds...so mocked, they give up their dream and settle for less. How sad.
In
the town of Port Hope in Ontario, a monument rises skuward. I is not
for a politician or a war hero, but for a poor, unselfish working man
who gave most of his life and energy to help those who could not repay
him.
Joseph
Scriven was born in Dublin 1820. In his younger days, he had the
potential of becoming a great citizen with high ideals and great
aspirations.
At
the time, he was engaged to a beautiful young woman who had promised to
share in his dreams, but on the eve of their wedding her body was
pulled from a pond into which she had accidentally fallen and drowned.
Joseph
never overcame the shock. Although he was already a college graduate
and ready embark on a brilliant career, he began to aimlessly wander in
an attempt to try to forget his sorrow.
His wanderings eventually brought him to Canada where he spent the last forty-one of his sixty-years.
It was during this time that he became a devoted Christian.
One of the results of his new-found faith was that he did a lot of work to help poor widows and sick people.
In fact, a lot of times he worked for free.
He had a secret ability, though. You see, he was a bit of a poet. Nobody
knew about it because he kept it a secret. But a short time before his
death, a friend was sitting with him while he was ill.
And while visiting, this friend discovered a poem Joseph had written to his mother during a time of sadness.
This poem was later set to music and has become a favorite hymn. From what I understand, it’s actually the first song that many missionaries teach in their works.
In the polls and surveys taken to determine the popularity of hymns and Gospel songs, Joseph’s poem is always near the top.
The
hymn?"What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and grief's to bear.
What a privilege to carry, Everything to God in prayer. Oh, what peace
we often forfeit, Oh what needless pain we bear; All because we do not
carry, Everything to God in prayer."
Live
every day of your life as if a young growing child was watching you
every day of your life...and Jesus was watching (whi9ch he is)../.and
you would be influencing that child by what he or she was seeing...and
you would allow yourself to be influenced by not forgetting "What a
friend you have in this Jesus who is watching."
And your aspiration were high and the aspirations of that child would grow high too...and that singing you hear? They are angel voices for high Christian aspirations are what make earth a little more like heaven and a little less like hell.
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"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
"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 retired)
"Wyrick
has authored a wonderful examination of the spirituality of one of
America's history most devoutly relious 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 ofany 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 ofhumility 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
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