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ONE LINERS FOR YOUR SOUL" & ONE A DAY
Take these seeds of thought
below and turn THEM into a wisdom tree.
“Be as bold in prayer as the first
person to ever eat an oyster.” (rewrite of a quote by Shirley Grisholm)
BELOW YOUR 'ONE A DAY' for
Today
A JOURNEY CALLED ETERNITY
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 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/
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
There is an ongoing story that is your life and mine. It stretches toward and into the awesome journey called eternity.
For this is where we live. ETERNITY. We only record time. Calendars are a convenience. Line up seventy and these days maybe eighty or more along a wall and there is your earthly existence.
But there are not enough calendars or years to describe your immortality and mine.
When you stand at the grave of one you loved, hold a calendar in your hand. Is this all life is? Some markings on a piece of paper, checked off until there are no more, oris it greater than this?
“Lo, I am with you always,” said Christ. Is there an always? Where judgment and justice meet is a matter beyond the comprehension of man. It is never really completely understood short of the mind of God.
Therefore, turn the eyes of your soul upward and outward and say over and over again…
Loved one, I miss you
but what we were
and who God is
leads me to a place that is beyond understanding.
Therefore, let them battle with mysteries
in the classrooms.
I only ask for special solace
from the heart of God,
and the strength of God,
and the presence of God.
I only ask for meaning
That laughs in the face of time
And bows in awe at the opening of Eternity.
And the answers are there and have been and evermore shall be…neither gaining no losing any of their emphasis.
“I am come that ye might have life.” (John 10:10)
It is the Alpha and the Omega speaking, the word made flesh speaking.
The great preach Henry Ward Beecher wrote “Living is death, dying is life. On this side of the grave we are exiles; on that citizens; on this side, orphans; on that children’ on this side, captives; on that, freemen; on this side, disguised, unknown; on that, disclosed and proclaimed as the Sons of God.”
Have you considered sharing this site with family or friends?
Just have them go to Google Search and type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”.
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.
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
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.
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 (AVAILABLE 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."
++++++++++++++++
"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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