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          Do you know where the longest highway in the world can be found?  The one with the most bumps to bump you and those bridges to cross and the most mountains to climb?

 

       Do you know that no one who has travelled this highway has ever come out alive?

 

       And what is that highway.  The highway that begins at birth and ends in death.

 

       And since yes we all travel this highway it behooves us to study and pray toward how to get the most out of the journey.

 

       There is a story about a ragged little man who eked out his existence on a meager salary and lived in a fairly large room in an old rooming house.

 

       Not far from where he worked was an antique shop that specialized in beautiful works of art, glassware and the like.

 

       From this shop he would, having meticulously saved, purchase the best and most beautiful of what the shop offered.

 

       Once, someone finding out what he did chastised him, "You are a fool, little man.  You live in a a poor rooming house, yet you buy for it articles fit for a mansion."

 

       "I do not think it foolish at all," he responded...because you see that is where I live."

 

       Where do you live and what have you chosen to surround yourself with?  What kind of friends?  What kind of places do you most often frequent?  What kind of thoughts linger in your mind?

 

       Did you know that the average person has 10,000 separate thoughts each day? That works out to be 3.5 million thoughts a year. If you live to be 75, you will have over 26 million different thoughts.  And I've lived now 83.

 

       That's a lot of thinking...a lot of self shaping by what you chose to think...as you travel that highway talked about.

 

       That's a lot of self-pity or compassion for others.

 

       That's a lot of digging your heels in at the wrong places for the wrong reasons or a lot of prayers asking to make good choices followed by better ones.

 

       That's a lot of anger and bitterness or patience sought and patience found...a gift from the throne room of God.

 

       A Dr Alice R. Cullinan did a study in the University where she teaches, regarding the influence of people's  thought on their emotions and actions.

       She learned that we do not just get hit by a certain feeling out of the blue. 

 

       We have thought something through first that causes our feelings be activated. 

 

       And then a question was asked in her classroom. "How would you feel if a person pulled their car onto the road you were travelling, and almost caused a collision."

 

       The response was what would be expected. 

       They answered that they would feel angry, frustrated, unhappy, etc.

       Her students were then asked to look into the car to see that the driver was a woman who was driving with one hand on the steering wheel and the other on the forehead of a child who was bleeding profusely.

 

She obviously was on her way to the hospital to get help for her child. 

       She then asked them if their feelings changed any.     Of course, they said they did. 

 

       They now felt concerned, sympathetic, and wanted to do something to help clear the way for the woman to get to the hospital.  

 

      So don't say "I am what I am and I can't change."  Yes. you can change and so can I and we all need to change and keep on changing on our way toward trying to get it right.

 

       "Thank you for your forgiveness, Lord."  That to...but "Thy will be done,"...that to.

 

       And please help to look at things with a more empathetic look.

 

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(A new daily quote  below from Rev. Wyrick's 9th book THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN...available on amazon.com, barnes and noble and many other book sites) (read the rave reviews below)

 

      Quote from chapter 5

"Abraham Lincoln would be the first President not born in one of the original thirteen states, and it would not be an easy journey.  Just getting nominated for the office had been difficult enough - it had taken three ballots before the Republican Party had a nominee.  Against all odds, this fairly obscure man from the wilderness was placed on their ticket.  

 

With his Presbyterian background, Lincoln might well have recalled that day in sixteenth century Scotland at the port of St. Andrews when John Knox fell to his knees on the dock and cried out, “God, give me Scotland or I die.”  That may well have been how Abe felt, “God, give me the Union or it will die.” 

 

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Recent articles Rev. Wyrick has written for this web site are:  REFLECTIONS

 

·         Many Kinds of Slavery - But Are They Not All Very Much The Same? (July 2012)

·         Here Comes Summer (July 2012)

·         Spring (May 2012)

·         Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow (April 2012)

·         Wayward and Windy (April 2012)