Tuesday, June 23, 2015

PATIENCE LOST...PATIENCE FOUND

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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace


Someone has written that anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind. 

     The book of Proverbs puts it this way, "He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls."

     Someone once said of Jesus, "He had to be divine.  No mortal man could have been that patient."

     One of the finest examples of patience is an oyster. It takes an irritation and turns it into a pearl."

     In an extension of examples of patience there is that time when Winston Churchill once commented on a fellow parliamentarian who had completely lost his cool, "My honorable colleague should, by now, have trained himself not to generate more indignation than he has the capacity to hold."

     How many folk do you know and hopefully you are not one of such folk which the following describes, "You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad."  And the size of some folk you are thinking of is very small.

     Anyone can get mad.  We all have and thereby earned the dunce cap of a fool...and to this problem the Apostle Paul writes, If thou bring thy gift to the altar and (there is a grievance between thee and a neighbor, first reconcile and then bring thy gift)

          How often do you get mad at people who dare to disagree with you?  So who are you?  God?

     Are you a mother who is driving your child's love further and further away because you have only one tone of voice, loud and angry.

     Are you a husband or father who needs a good low cost cave to live in, because you've turned into a first class bear?

     Are you a wife who majors in nagging and minors in understanding?   

     A poll was taken some time ago to see what made one hundred college men and women mad.  And the answers given crucified logic on the spot.

     1. People at red lights.

     2.  People at green lights.

     3.  People talking too much..

     4.  People talking too little.

     5. People out to get me.

     6. People who don't pay any attention to me.

     In the book "Babbitt" by that great writer of yesteryear, Sinclair Lewis, a man by the name of Paul Rieslings has a vindictive scolding shrew of a wife by the name of Zilla. 

     Lewis describes her in the following manner, "Zilla's face was wrinkled like the Medusa, her voice was a dagger of corroded brass; she was full of the joy of righteousness and bad temper.  She was a crusader...who exulted in the opportunity to be vicious in the name of virtue."
  
So then...Set your spiritual GPS on a journey to find patience...and pursue it with the diligence it deserves.

     Pray to close your mouth when what is about to come out will do you no good or the person who is your target.

     Be not perfect...for you will not make it and neither will I...but aim for perfection...there is no goal more worthy.

          A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
George Savile

      Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
     Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
Molière

     The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.”
Hubert Van Zeller

     Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.”
Barbara Johnson

     Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.”
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

     Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”
Helen Keller

     What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.”
Steve Maraboli

     You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.”
Arnold H. Glasow


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        BELOW ARE QUOTES FROM POSTINGS ON WYRICK'S WRITINGS DURING THE LAST FEW MONTHS...

       Click on the URL below and it will take you to this Wyrick's Writings blog.

                     http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com

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Just remember that “the pain of discipline will cost you pennies, whereas the pain of regret will cost you millions.”

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How can we keep our faith from being a weak and fruitless thing?  How can we not be foolish little men and women groveling in the dark shadows of overeager egos. 


          Well, first we must do more than just pray.  We must believe in our own prayers.

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Anxiety out of proportion makes us become like a centipede trying to put his best foot forward.

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        It's an old joke, I went to the doctor and I said, “Doc, when I do this, it hurts.” And the doctor said, “Then don't do that.”

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        How many things have you been anxious about that were things which you knew before you got into them were probably going to create some problems for you?  And if you asked your doctor, or your minister, or common sense and your God, all of them would have said, “Don’t do that.”

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        To buy into the community of accountability we have to realize that like bikers we are divided into two categories.  Those who have fallen and those who will fall for anything. None of us are perfect.
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          Think on it this way, some philosopher of old wrote it and it endures because there is so much truth in it… every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty

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      Some of the sermon titles posted recently

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Before you decide to purchase or not purchase his book THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN.... view his Award Winning One Man Dramatization of Lincoln (since he wrote the script for this drama it will give you an insight into what you will find in the book itself)

Available on Amazon.com in printed form and on Amazon Kindle Books. and at many other sites

TO VIEW THE LINCOLN One Man DRAMA and 3 other dramas; Ben Franklin, Martin Luther & Charles Wesley

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http://www.speakerneil.com/

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BELOW ARE MORE QUOTES FROM NEIL'S RECENTLY POSTED SERMONS
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A QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS POSTED ON MY OTHER BLOG WYRICK'S WRITINGS ENTITLED


       Two stores faced each other across a very busy street.  Their owners were in constant competition with each other.  One day, the owner of one store put out a sign that read – If you want it, we have it!

Almost immediately the other owner put out a sign –If we don’t have it, you don’t need it!


A QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS POSTED ON MY OTHER BLOG WYRICK'S WRITINGS ENTITLED

WHO ARE YOU?

NO…WHOSE ARE YOU?

       Who are you?  Whose are you?

You influence and are influenced according to the answer you give.     

Are you are the flavor of the month because you are determined to be like everyone else no matter what?  If so, consider being more independent in our thinking and actions...because God wants you to grow up.

It may be easier being someone's shadow but wouldn't you really rather be a sun. 


       QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS  POSTED ON WYRICK'S WRITINGS ENTITLED "Who Are You?  Whose Are You?"

       This is an old quote, and a romantic one as well but, nevertheless, can anyone say of you, “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

            QUOTE FROM THOUGHT PIECE POSTED ON WYRICK'S WRITINGS ENTITLED

" WHEN A NATION STRAYS TOO FAR FROM BEING MORAL IT IS WELL ON IT'S WAY TO BECOMING A MESS

        James 4:17

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

        Someone once said: “A belief is what you hold, a conviction is what holds you!”

        So what holds you, constructs you, leads you with a push when needed?

       Quotes POSTED ON WYRICK'S WRITING ENTITLED WHO ARE YOU?

NO…WHOSE ARE YOU?

        In a Peanuts cartoon strip Peppermint Patty is shown talking to Charlie Brown.

“Guess what, Chuck? It’s the first day of school and I got sent to the principal’s office.

And it’s your fault!”

Charlie Brown responds, “My fault? How could it be my fault? Why do you say everything is my fault?”

To which she declares, “You’re my friend, aren’t you, Chuck? You should have been a better influence on me.”

In the comics, it’s funny… but in real life it’s much more complicated.

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          Yes, God loves you the way you are but he loves you too much to let you stay that way.

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      Click on the URL below to WATCH NEIL IN HIS WORLD FAMOUS ONE MAN DRAMATIZATIONS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BEN FRANKLIN, CHARLES WESLEY AND MARTIN LUTHER


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       QUOTES ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL INSPIRING INFORMATIVE book

       STILL RECEIVING RAVE REVIEWS 8 YEARS AFTER IT'S PUBLICATION.

       "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 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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