Thursday, January 14, 2016

DECISIONS; PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE

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       Read a book on logic?  Watch a tape on emotions?  Pray a prayer...attend  private and church worship services on a regular basis.  Do everything and anything you can to lessen your foolish decisions and maximize your wiser choices.

       Of such is a better life made.

       Having written that...I post the following fact as well... Even before the days of the Internet, one “Think Take” put forth this statement concerning knowledge:

       Knowledge is exploding at such a rate--more than 2000 pages a minute--that even Einstein couldn’t keep up. In fact, if you read 24 hours a day, from age 21 to 70, and retained all you read, you would be one and a half million years behind when you finished.

       So earn your degrees (Yes, I have three but basically, at least for me, they have simply emphasized how much I don't know) and take your courses but in the process never forget we will never be anywhere near as smart as we think we are...and we are never smarter than when we are down upon our knees.

       Or as Proverbs 9:10 says, "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding."

       I do not denigrate knowledge.  My life is better for all the talents I have honed, the subjects I have taken and all the modern day technology that makes life easier.

       But I must constantly remind myself that  “Knowledge comes from what we have studied. Wisdom comes from using what we know with the wrong results.”

       There seems an increase in our day of those who believe they are smarter than God...which is why they have reached the point where they do not believe in God...which is called being too smart for your own good.

       Allow me to set in motion yet another thought.

       Former president Ronald Reagan once had an aunt who took him to a cobbler for a pair of new shoes.

        The cobbler asked young Reagan, "Do you want square toes or round toes?"

       Unable to decide, Reagan didn't answer, so the cobbler gave him a few days.

       Several days later the cobbler saw Reagan on the street and asked him again what kind of toes he wanted on his shoes.

       Reagan still couldn't decide, so the shoemaker replied, "Well, come by in a couple of days. Your shoes will be ready." When the future president did so, he found one square-toed and one round-toed shoe!

       "This will teach you to never let people make decisions for you," the cobbler said to his indecisive customer.

       True...but to make wiser decisions in the future it does require you make a habit of reviewing decision you have made in the past.  (And throw away that bag of excuses we all carry around)

       "For yes it may be true that there are two sides to every question, but it is also true that there are two sides to a sheet of flypaper, and it makes a big difference to the fly which side he chooses"

       There are certain times when no decision should be made.  In the middle of the night when you have awakened worrying about a decision...when you are in a bad  mood...when you are weary.

       Rest up for decision making time?  Not a bad idea at all.

       Years ago a professor at Stanford devised a check list of nine questions that can be applied to any problem. Used as a self- quiz, the questions are an imagination booster. They are:

1. Is there a new way to do it?
2. Can you borrow or adapt?
3. Can you give it a new twist?
4. Do you merely need more of the same?
5. Less of the same?
6. Is there a substitute?
7. Can the parts be rearranged?
8. What if we do just the opposite?
9. Can ideas be combined?

       A closing thought ...you will make bad decisions sometimes...we all do...so he best thing to do is to remember again and again...patiently think a problem through and pray it through and then act...BECAUSE OFTEN NO DECISION IS A DECISION.

              QUOTES ON WISDOM & DECISIOMS

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk.

Doug Larson.

A wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Nobody lives long enough to make them all himself.

Source Unknown.

You don't have to be listed in Who's Who to know what's what.

Source Unknown.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

David Russell.

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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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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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