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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.
Make Longer Better
When Abraham Lincoln was born, the average marriage lasted about
a dozen years - not because they ended in divorce but because life expectancy
was so much shorter.
Today an average couple can be expected to be together for
almost 50 years. And yet…
“We were married for 38 years and last
year she dropped dead on the way to work.
I keep putting my feet down but I can’t find the floor.”
“I was 62 years old and we’d been married
for forty-one years. Then he said he
needed new challenges and just walked out.”
Whether by death or divorce, too many
sixty-plus folks are forced to find an elusive single blessedness. Yet single living is no easy road to travel when
such a short time before it was a journey made by two How can it be handled? Your bookstore is filled with uplifting stories of those who
have survived. Well, first don’t be ashamed to grieve. Accept the fact
it is normal and could last for as short a time as six months or as long as
four years. However, put Disraeli’s words in your head and heart and see if they will
stick, “Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief is the
blunder of a lifetime.”
Go out the front door rather than hide behind it. Seek out new single friends if before
this you have thought only in terms of couples, If it is a divorce and old
friends were friends of both of you, caught in the middle some may feel
uncomfortable and take the easy way out and ignore both of you. Don’t hold it
against them or inside of you. Seek out new single friends..
Beware!
The recovery process can make you forget the old truism, “Feed the pain. Add the fat.”
When
you are down and depressed, stupidity stands ready to take over in a moment.
Put positive suggestions up all around the house. Begin with the
refrigerator, the recovery process can make you forget the old truism, “feed
the pain - add the fat” and end with the bathroom mirror (and anywhere and
everywhere in between).
Rain may bring rainbows but, yes, it also brings rain. We all just
have to learn to live with the one while looking for the other.
...BELOW is YOUR 'ONE A DAY' for Today
CHILDREN OF A KING
These thoughts are added to each day.
(Use in your personal or church newsletters) (365 stories a year)
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Late one afternoon when the sun seared and live for even the well off was difficult a group of starving, sick and beaten slaves staggered down a gangplank.
Their heads were bowed, their shoulders slumped, their feet dragged step by step…all but one.This one stood tall and straight, his clear black eyes looked ahead and his shoulders were back.
“Who is he?” someone asked.
“He” replied one of the slave traders “is the son of a King.”
This is you and I my reading friend…we each are a child of God…a son or daughter of a King…created a little lower than the angels as the Bible reads.
Isaiah 40:31
Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
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Late one afternoon when the sun seared and live for even the well off was difficult a group of starving, sick and beaten slaves staggered down a gangplank.
Their heads were bowed, their shoulders slumped, their feet dragged step by step…all but one.This one stood tall and straight, his clear black eyes looked ahead and his shoulders were back.
“Who is he?” someone asked.
“He” replied one of the slave traders “is the son of a King.”
This is you and I my reading friend…we each are a child of God…a son or daughter of a King…created a little lower than the angels as the Bible reads.
Isaiah 40:31
Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
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20TH CENTURY
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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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