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Would you have more happiness? Get a gratitude attitude. Minimize your complaints. Maximize your thanksgiving. “Earth’s crammed with heaven,” said Thoreau. Love, light, laughter. The smile of a child. The ripple of a stream. A sparkling star. A rainbow.
Would you have more happiness? Then
daily train yourself to laugh at yourself, in particular if the years
are slowing you down and you are tired of being tired. Like telling the
story on yourself that when you get up some mornings you feel like it’s
the morning after…and you didn’t do anything the night before.
Would you have more happiness? Be a beacon of joy. The next time you feel an overwhelming desire to find fault, sew your mouth shut until the feeling goes away. Or perhaps another way of putting it’ don’t needle – use one.
Happiness
is being committed to a cause, to something that sets you on fire, that
warms your very being because you are concerned with the happiness of
someone else as much or more than you are for yourself. Happiness is having a principle you are willing to stand up for.
Did you ever see Stir Crazy? It starred Gene Wilder as a man named Harry. It was one crazy movie that exaggerated the art of accentuating the positive. First, Harry is thrown into prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Does this get Harry down? Not on your life.
He just keeps smiling and driving all the prison personnel crazy with his positive attitude. They hang him by his wrists for several days and he just breaks out with thanksgiving. “Thanks you. Thank you. Thank you. You just solved my back problem!”
The guards then lock Harry in a little hot box beneath a boiling sun. When they release him several days later he begs them to leave him there a little longer. “I was just starting to get to know myself,” he explains.
Finally, they throw happy Harry into a cell with a 300 pound murderer who gives a new meaning to the word crazy. Doesn’t faze Harry at all. When the guards return they find Harry and the crazy murderer laughing over a game of cards.
Harry
may well be called a man who has pursued happiness to a crazy
extreme…but then... Isn’t it just as crazy to look only for the
miserable? To fall in love with negative thinking? To argue that the glass is half empty while ignoring the fact that it is half full?
When was the last time you laughed at a bad accident you had in the past? Maybe just the other day when you were thinking about it and how ridiculous it was you did it to yourself?
Now it is funny. Then it wasn’t. Time does that. It gives a new perspective.
A
good attitude won’t make you able to laugh at every miserable moment of
yesterday but it will help you to learn from it, and sometimes even
enjoy the humor in it.
Have I followed my own advice? Well, last spring when I broke my hip I started writing a book on how to handle recovery and entitled it HIP HIP HOORAY.
SOME POSTIVIE THINKING QUOTES FROM THE BIBLE
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" (Philippians 4:13).
If God be for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31)
be ye transformed by the newing of your mind..." (Romans 12:2)
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth stength." (Isaiah 40:29)
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you..." (John 14:27)
They
that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up
with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall
walk, and not faint." (Isaiah 40:28-31)
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"The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is an
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spiritual side of President Lincoln. It's both scholarly and very
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William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer; author of Blood and Guile, and Wild Thorn
"Wyrick
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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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