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ONE LINERS FOR YOUR SOUL"
Take these two seeds of thought
below and turn it into a wisdom tree.
FIVE POINTS
The Chinese have a saying that there are five points to the compass;
north, south, east, west and where you are.
The last is the most important because we cannot know where we should go
until we know where we are.
BELOW IS...YOUR
'ONE A DAY' for Today
WHO HAVE YOU CHOSEN...
(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). Thursday and Sunday will continue to cover a variety of subjects.
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Benjamin Franklin, that grand old man who helped to shape our country in its infancy, once rose during an impasse at the Constitutional Convention in June 1787 and said, “Mr. Washington…. The small progress we have made, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfections of the human understanding. I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire cannot rise without His aid?”
And then he requested that the delegates pause and pray.
“Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.”
~ Psalm 51: 11
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And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
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SITES
THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN (AVAILLABLE ON KINDLE) & BEN FRANKLIN'S ALMANACK
FOR THE 20TH CENTURY
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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 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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