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the thoughts below read a quote from Rev. Wyrick's applauded 9th book THE
SPIRITUAL ARAHAM LINCOLN
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Will the jingle bells around your house be
out of tune this Christmas time because you wear a scowl instead of a smile?
Will you inhabit the World of Hurt
Feelings because some family member said the wrong thing or did not do the
right deed? Will you shrink the
Christmas spirit for any and all who come in contact with your contrary spirit.
If ever a special effort needs to be made
to store away memories good and kindly and filled with joy...then Christmas eve
and Christmas day are certainly two times that cry out for such emotional
benevolence.
So pray to have a happy spirit and if it still
eludes you smile anyway...it'll make everyone feel happier including you the smiler.
I can still see the man sitting in front of
me with tears rolling down his cheeks as he related what his mother did to him
rather than for him on a Christmas morn.
She was weary with Christmas planning and
Christmas shopping and a Christmas dinner steaming around the kitchen
shelves. Her nature was not always to
nurture patience. But still...
...he had visited his friend across the
street and torn his new Christmas
pants. Admittedly, it was depression
time and money was short but her short sighted reaction carried such a burden
for the future in it...
"You crazy careless kid," she
shouted. And then she punished him for
his carelessness. He spent the rest of
Christmas morn raking leaves in the backyard.
This was a memory
that embedded itself in his mind and would never go away.
The little girl looked up at her mother
and began to read the Christmas story...it was Christmas morn...and this was
what this family always did...before any presents were opened.
This was a memory too
that would never go away.
The call was on grandma and the little
girl carried the red glass of Kool-Aid into the well kept living room.
Grandma was a
meticulous housekeeper.
Everything was spotless.
Then the little girl tripped and spilled the staining
Kool-Aid all over the living room rug.
She began to cry as she tried to clean it
up with a piece of Christmas wrapping paper.
"That's alright dear," soothed the
grandmother. "I'll get you another glass of Kool-Aid."
This was a memory too that would never go
away.
The woman was
having a very hectic day shopping when she pushed the button for the elevator
in a department store. She was
weary and wore frazzle like a living thing.
When the
elevator door opened, it was already filled but somehow she managed to squeeze
in.
As the
elevator descended, she complained, “Whoever started this whole Christmas thing
should be hung.”
A voice in the back of
the car quietly said, “It’s okay, Lady, He already was.”
From that
point until the last stop the elevator made, nobody made a sound.
What memory will
give your family and friends this CHRISTmas time?
Will they
look back upon their Christmas past with you with joyous recollections of what
kind of a kindly joyous person you were like to have around?
One way or the other...The gift of "you" will be given...good, bad or
indifferent.
It will be
given.
QUOTES ON CHRISTMAS GIFTS
“Christmas gift
suggestions: to your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a
friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a
good example. To yourself, respect.” ~ Oren Arnold
“As we struggle with
shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is
good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this
aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.” – Donald E. Westlake
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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
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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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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SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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