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ONE LINERS FOR YOUR SOUL"
Take these two seeds of thought
below and turn THEM into a wisdom tree.
ONE BODY
If I shake your hand, or pat your back, or write a letter of
concern, I can produce a smile across your face as wide as heaven itself. If I push you away, or speak with anger
toward you, or write a letter of condemnation, I can wrench your heart and
break your spirit. And because I am not acting
as one body in Christ, the bodies of both of us suffer…and the body of the
church suffers.
BELOW IS...YOUR
'ONE A DAY' for Today
CAN YOU TAKE FAILURE OR DOES IT TAKE YOU?
These thoughts are added to each day. Scroll down and read previous One A Days.)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters) (365 stories a year)
Serialization of Neil’s Internationally Distributed Novel (Rust On My Soul) (Published by Bridge Press(1985) starts on his blog Wyrick’s Writings. Thursday and Sunday will continue to cover a variety of subjects.
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Henry Ford forgot to put a reverse gear in his first car, but not in his second.
Edison once spent $2 million dollars on an invention that never did work out, but as he said, “I got $2 million dollars worth of experience.”
Most unhappy people are those who have never learned how to take failure. They know what they want, but they haven’t gotten it and they can’t take the big NO! Someone, or something, knocked them down, so they stayed down.
“Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.”
That’s an old quote and a great truth. No one ever gets all they want when they want it.
Indeed, sometimes what we want we’ll never have. Maybe we need it – maybe we don’t, but what we do need is a state of mind, heart, and soul that doesn’t give up every time we don’t get our own way.
I don’t have everything I want, but neither do I know everything I need. So, the best thing I can do is pray, “Lord, when my wish is not wise, temper me for Your will.”
You see, I’ve learned that often it is not always my wish that needs tempering, it is me.
It is my soul, my personality, my total being that needs the strength and peace of acceptance.
I may keep my dreams ‘til the day I die and never have them fulfilled, but without them, I am dead.
Therefore, somehow, by the grace of God, I have to learn how to live with victory and defeat, health and sickness, love and hate, peace and war, faith and doubt.
Somehow my happiness must be deeper than what I have.
Somehow it must flow from what I am, and the I AM be happiness-prone.
That is why the prayer, “Lord, when my wish is not wise, temper me for Your will” must be my prayer, and yours.
“…I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8:38-39).
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And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
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Have
you considered sharing this site with family or friends? Just have them go to
Google Search and type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”.
OR HAVE THEM CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL
OR HAVE THEM CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
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click on the FOLLOWING URL
to go to Rev. Wyrick's other blog Wyrick's
Writings
Check out Neil's 2 still available books
on amazon.com.
THERE ARE OTHER USED COPIES OF HIS 7
OTHER USED BOOKS AT MANY SITES
THE SPIRITUAL
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (AVAILLABLE
ON KINDLE) &
BEN FRANKLIN'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20TH CENTURY
TO VIEW REV. WYRICK'S AWARD WINNING ONE
MAN DRAMAS Click on the following
BELOW
ARE SOME OF THE RAVE REVIEWS ABOUT "THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN."
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"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 Lincolnshould 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 fullmeasure 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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