" ONE LINERS FOR YOUR SOUL" & ONE A DAY
Take these seeds of thought below and turn THEM into a wisdom tree.
THE
POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING
The Power of Negative
Thinking does come easily. Some people have earned their PHD in it.
If you are or have occasionally been one of these folk there is a test
you can take to see if you still have the stuff it is made of.
Tomorrow morning, when you wake up, walk outside and stamp
a flower. Scream at a sparrow. Kick a tree. On your way to work, triple your
honking power. Honk when there really is no reason and make it long and loud.
Short of having a wreck, work toward winning Road Hog of the Year Award.
Beware positive thoughts may inflict
great harm. So beware, the Power of
Positive Thinking is a mighty force and nothing to be made light of.
In the continuation of your test and the pumping up of
anger, frustration and depression don’t stop with anything less than maximum
output. At work or at home, if you are asked to do something extra, pout if you
are a woman or mutter if you are a man. If someone says, "Thank you,"
give him or her a blank stare. If you feel a smile coming on resurrect some
real or imagined hurt. If an associate or a mate shares with you a good idea,
grunt. If it is an exceptional idea, feel threatened. If he or she still won’t
go away, kill their enthusiasm by saying, "It won’t work." Above all
else avoid any social issues that might cause you to take a stand.
When lunchtime rolls around be sure and have a meal that
heightens your cholesterol and enthuses your ulcer.
Have your fourth or fifth cup of coffee for the day and in
the middle of the afternoon your third or fourth candy bar so your blood sugar
can continue to ride a roller coaster. Start on your third pack of cigarettes,
preferably near a non-smoker.
If it has been a workday, at its close shove toward the
elevator and race toward the parking lot. Remember that you will have been on
emotional overload since early morn and you don’t want to lose your edge.
Everyone wants to get out of the parking lot first. Don’t
let them. Drive like you are in a demotion derby. Nudge but don’t dent until
you have made several other drivers as miserable as you are. You may even want
to write down license numbers as trophies.
When you come back
through your front door, kick the dog, yell at the children if they happen to
be around, complain about congress, cuss about gas prices and gulp down your
dinner. If you have to go out for the evening lament you never have time for
yourself. If you don’t have to go out; turn on TV, switch from station to
station, finally fall asleep, snore and prepare to do battle all over again.
It does require consistent
effort to be a card carrying Negative Thinker. Keeping alive the best of one’s
worst is never easy.
Because, yes, there are positive guidelines and hope filled nudges that might
get in the way if we give them half a chance. Therefore, a word to whoever
will listen, "Control yourself because if you don’t you might actually
become a person you enjoy keeping company with."
...BELOW
is YOUR 'ONE A DAY' for Today
A SPECIAL KIND OF COURAGE
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The medical missionary David Livingstone, after 16 years in Africa, spoke the following. on a visit to Glasgow University.
“Shall I tell you what sustained me amidst the toil and hardship of my exiled life? It was the promise, ‘Lo, I am with you always even unto the end.” He was older than his age. As he spoke his arm hung limply at his side. And this man who never thought of giving anything less than his all gave forth an unworldly calm.
“But the Lord GOD helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame.”
—Isaiah 50:7
“Shall I tell you what sustained me amidst the toil and hardship of my exiled life? It was the promise, ‘Lo, I am with you always even unto the end.” He was older than his age. As he spoke his arm hung limply at his side. And this man who never thought of giving anything less than his all gave forth an unworldly calm.
“But the Lord GOD helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame.”
—Isaiah 50:7
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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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