Below
is YOUR ONE A DAY (Note from Neil) & "A ONE LINER FOR YOUR SOUL"
Take these two seeds of thought
below and turn it into a wisdom tree.
WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO YOU?
Someone has figured
out that one hundred years ago there were only seventy-two thingamajigs and events
we humans listed as necessities. Today the
list totals over 500. And every one of
those 500 competes to become our god. Why
do we not understand that all things to which we give ourselves give back to us
according to what or who they are?
The prophet Isaiah
speaks across the centuries about this problem.
He reminds us in the 23rd chapter: 3rd verse, “Thou
wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.” But what is our mind stayed on? To what or whom do we look for some kind of
satisfaction? And is it possible that too
often we chase after the wrong gifts at the expense of forgetting what is truly
important?
BELOW
IS...YOUR 'ONE A DAY' for Today
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on the FOLLOWING URL
to go to Rev. Wyrick's other blog Wyrick's Writings
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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 http://www.speakerneil.com/
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 Tuesday April 13th and continues each Tuesday until finished. Thursday and Sunday will continue to cover a variety of subjects.
To view this blog CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
Edward Day, a minister and author of the book An Autobiography of Prayer, tells his story.
“Ten years ago, a beloved physician and friend told me that I had a heart blockage, and that my heart was greatly enlarged. His conclusions were the results of careful examinations by himself and experts with the aid of the electro-cardiograph and other reliable tests. His warning was to slow down.
Two years later, after the same examinations and tests and the diagnosis, and prescription, were the same. The prescription, however, could not be filled for it seemed to me that the clear call of God had taken me into labors that were even more grueling than those from which I had been warned two years before.
Keeping schedules that would exhaust much younger men - sixteen to eighteen hours a day, journeying up and down the land bearing almost intolerable burdens in the effort to reach the unawakened masses with the message entrusted to me.
From the view-point of medical science, it was reckless folly. But God had called, and was still calling. What else could one do?
Here, however is the surprising thing.
Recent tests, of the most thorough kind, revealed there is no longer any sign of heart blockage and the heart is perfectly normal in size!
Do you wonder at my belief that It is of God? Or that there is a conviction that the prayer which commits one wholly to God has therapeutic reverberations in the body as well as redemptive effect upon the spirit?”
“The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.” ~ Psalm 97: 5
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And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE.
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below to WATCH NEIL IN HIS WORLD FAMOUS ONE MAN DRAMATIZATIONS OF ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, BEN FRANKLIN, CHARLES WESLEY AND MARTIN LUTHER
To Order and Read Neil's 9th book THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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QUOTES ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL INSPIRING INFORMATIVE book
STILL RECEIVING RAVE REVIEWS 8 YEARS AFTER IT'S PUBLICATION.
"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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