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acclaimed One Man Dramas ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, BEN FRANKLIN CHARLES WESLEY, MARTIN LUTHER (NBC Special) click on the link
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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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How many dumb mistakes have you made recently?
In a lifetime...
the list for all of us is long... and we all keep on making it longer.
So what
we need is more wisdom and less absent mindedness.
But don't
hold your breath. Perfection isn't going to become a permanent resident in the
lives of any of us.
The
best we can do is learn from our mistakes and make less of them.
Which means
we have to apply the first rule for acquiring at least some wisdom, "When
we make a mistake...don't blame other people or overwhelmed them with a barrage
of excuses. To conquer a mistake one has
to identify it."
It is
disconcerting to have to admit it...but our brains do seem to be wired to
err...while the world stands ready to feed it ammunition.
And
what area serves up most of your mistkes.
Got a problem with keeping your records, putting the proper
figure on your payment checks, etc.?
Try doing this
kind of thing when you are rested (say the weekend).
Tired people
aren't good problem solvers...rather they are just angry frustration makers.
And
when you recheck whatever...put some time between what you just did and your
rechecking.
As a
writer I find I do a much better job of editing the next day...otherwise I just
duplicate or am blind to the same error I just made a few minutes ago.
Actually
the best job of editing is done by my wife (perhaps in your case,
someone else than you checking over what you did; mental, manual, etc.) who
views what I have done from a point of view I cannot possibly find.
If
you are reading instructions for a task...read
them out loud. It
is not as easy to let your mind wander when you verbalize.
You don't want other people to hear you
reading out loud...whisper...it works just as
well.
Do you
wait at stoplights? Why? To avoid
disaster!
Same
with decisions. Run a decision by at
warp speed and the odds for disaster automatically go up.
We've
all said, "I wish I'd waited and thought a little longer before
I...."
So...yes...think
a decision through...weigh it and wait it out...if you can afford 24 hours
before jumping off a cliff...wait...then you will either decide not to jump or
at least you will have decided to get a parachute.
` And
always bring God in as an advisor before a final decision... not
afterwards for forgiveness.
Face
it...if there are two ways to do something and one of them is right and one of
them is wrong...you have a 50% chance of making the wrong choice.
Prov
22:3 speaks a truth when it reads...
" A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it."
" A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it."
Have you
ever done that? Rushed pell-mell toward
disaster while knowing that was what you were doing... all the time you were
doing it?
Is it true
that an ounce of preventing is worth a pound of cure?
I guess
we all need to become the intelligent monkey in the zoo, "Monkey
see...monkey not do."
I
have what I call a dual prayer that I often pray. "Lord...Don't just lead me. When necessary I will appreciate a push
toward common sense."
QUOTES ON MAKING MISTAKES
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be
continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book,
1927
If you don't make mistakes, you're not
working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. ~F. Wikzek
An expert is a man who has made all the
mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. ~Niels Bohr
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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...
click on
"Voice" on the home page and then on the list of authors click
on Neil Wyrick
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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