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There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who
have grown hopeless about them.
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Below
the thoughts below read a quote from Rev. Wyrick's applauded 9th book THE
SPIRITUAL ARAHAM LINCOLN
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Hope is faith in
perpetual motion.
The completion of hope is a woman playing
a song on a lyre with only one string left.
Hope is what
keeps life alive and vigorous.
Would you have more of hope in your
life...then find yourself a vision.
Proverbs 29:18
puts it well "Where there is no vision, the people perish…"
Without a vision you are charging toward
"Wherever" or "Whatever" or worse still "I don't know
and I don't care."
Without a vision
we have no passion toward or about anything.
Our enthusiasm dies or never came alive in the first place. We become masters of doing nothing and
becoming nothing.
A man approached a little league baseball game one afternoon.
He asked a boy in the dugout what the score was. The boy responded,
"Eighteen to nothing--we're behind."
"Boy," said the spectator, "I'll bet you're
discouraged."
"Why should
I be discouraged?" replied the little boy. "We haven't even gotten up
to bat yet!"
That's the way life is sometimes. As long as we're alive we still have a chance
to come up to bat...maybe even in a different game in a different way...but
still hope truly springs eternal...and if our attitude doesn't falter...well...
From the age of 5 Jerry was the victim of a series of
strange and agonizing accidents.
While holding
an axe overhead it slipped and cut a cleft into his chin.
While a sophomore in high school he
backed into an electric lathe.
When he was
17 he had an accident with a double barreled shotgun.
Both barrels went off and their load
smashed into his right forearm.
He chipped a
vertebra in his neck and had to have an operation.
He suffered a detached retina. He broke
his ankle.
A non malignant growth the size of a
grapefruit was removed from near his stomach.
Holes developed in his intestines caused
by a four inch sliver of wood which had been in him for 12 years.
His name, Jerry Kramer.
He overcame
all of these adversities to play offensive
tackle on the Green Bay Packers football team.
He was on the
1965 team that won the NFL title, and on the team that won the historic first
super bowl game the next year!
Hope does
produce all kind of mental, spiritual and physical miracles.
My injuries and illnesses don't match Jerry's but they're
close. But I have never given up...when
one gives up then and then only does hope die.
With hope we keep trying.
Without it we start dying.
Has a job been
lost? Will it be found without the
actions hope produces?
Has health deteriorated?
Will it be restored without hope or at least a better attitude to deal
with an illness?
Are you having
trouble with one of your kids or grandchildren and have you given up hope on
them? If so can they feel it? It you haven't, can they feel that too.
Deposit hope in the bank of life if you want to avoid
bankruptcy. Hope is “the steadfast anchor of our souls” (Heb 6:18-19).
Hopelessness
sours the soul.
…Do not be anxious about anything, but in
everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to
God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your
hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 4:6-7)
These words are a billboard I have put up
along the highway of my life. I stop in
my journeys up and down that highway and peruse their wisdom.
When a
distress comes to call I take it to that billboard...
I bow before the throne of grace...
I gather up my thoughts before the
stretches of eternity from my mortal point of view...
and then I quiet mu mind and listen for
the footsteps of my heavenly Father..
and they are there...
and they remind me that I am not alone.
Of such is my hope that is always
there...all that is required that I give it every chance to stay alive.
QUOTES ON
HOPE
Clare
Boothe Luce.
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Below is a quote from Rev. Wyrick's 9th book
THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
It is little wonder that once the war was over,
wretched memories fed anger loud and long.
Neither side could be proud of some things that happened during the war
or at their many prison camps. The
meanness in some men had multiplied.
They felt their uniforms allowed it.
Andersonville, or Camp
Sumter as it was officially known, in
southwest Georgia
is remembered as one of the worst.
By the end of the war, it had held 50,000
prisoners on a piece of land no larger than twenty-six acres.
Some men had called pits in the ground
their home. During its short
fourteen-month existence, 13,000 soldiers who had survived in battle died in
captivity under the most terrible conditions.
When the war was over the superintendent
was hanged.
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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK
"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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Neil also writes for go60.us to check out his writings...
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"Voice" on the home page and then on the list of authors click
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Recent articles Rev. Wyrick has written for this web site are:
REFLECTIONS
·
Here Comes Summer (July 2012)
·
Spring
(May 2012)
·
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow (April 2012)
·
Wayward and Windy (April 2012)
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Some of the sermon titles
posted recently on Wyrick's Writings
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BELOW ARE MORE QUOTES FROM NEIL'S RECENTLY POSTED SERMONS
on Wyrick's Writings
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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!
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HIS WORLD FAMOUS ONE MAN DRAMATIZATIONS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BEN FRANKLIN, CHARLES WESLEY AND MARTIN LUTHER
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SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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