AS A MAN THINKETH SO IS HE

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Serialization of Neil’s Internationally Distributed Novel (Rust On My Soul) (Published by Bridge Press (1985) is available on his blog Wyrick’s Writings.

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He was poor little man whose ragged clothing hung from him as if they were perilously close to coming apart and falling to the ground.

The shoes on his feet were but remnants of their former selves.

The house in which he lived was dilapidated, downtrodden and miserable to behold. It was an old rooming house and the one room where he lived was all that he could afford.

Yet, not far from where he worked for the most meager of pay was an antique shop that specialized in beautiful works of art; glass into which were chiseled the most beautiful of images, paintings like few he had ever seen before.

And ere now and then, after saving for months…he would go into this old antique shop and pick out one of the items on its shelves and take it back to his room.

Once, someone making fun of him said, “You are a fool little man. You call home that miserable little room in what would otherwise be the attic. And yet you buy articles fit for a mansion.”

“O no,” came back the reply, “I am not a fool at all because you see that is where I live.”

Where we live, wherever that is, we need to surround ourselves with beautiful thoughts and beautiful deeds and beautiful memories of who we have been. For by such choices we can make a beautiful life even if much around us may or may not always be.

And yes…a beautiful faith that glows with the realization that we are not alone…or forgotten…that we are eternal in the eyes of heaven and that God’s helping hand is only a prayer away.

”A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.” (Proverbs 16:9)

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