DREAMS AND DEEDS

******************
If you would like to share
this blog with a friend copy
paste and send this blog by email

or keep this URL

http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com

IN YOUR FAVORITES
and suggest they do the same
They are changed daily.

******************  

In 1925 Gutzon Borglum had a dream. He wanted to turn an obscure rock face, 6000 foot high Mount Rushmore, into giant sculptures of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.
 

Many thought him out of his mind; a dream without any hope of completion.
 

But he ignored the written and vebal jibes and began with experienced miners to with jackhammers and dynamite remove 400,000 tons of outer rock.
 

Cutting within three inches of the final surface.
 

When he died in 1941 his dream of the world’s largest sculpture was near completion.
 

His son Lincoln finished the wok that October, some 14 years after it was begun. 

He was just a little boy and he was spending a great deal of time staring out the window at the moon. 

Finally his mother asked him “Why?” 
 

With utter seriousness he looked up at her and said, “Mother, one day I am going to walk on that moon.”
32 years later he did. Despite a motorcycle accident that broke almost every bone in his body, James Irwin, Apollo 15, 1971, astronaut did.
 

Dreams
 

Dreams do sometimes come true.
And if instead they die upon a vine
we are still the better off for having dug around the roots.
 

It is then they have been a teacher if only for a little while.
No dream really dies
Unless we will it so.
A dream, unfulfilled, is like a haunting note of music that will not quit.
 

Like the weary ripple of a stream
Caught up in drought
But continuing to look for rain.
Dreams are timeless.
Made of intangible stuff.
Each dream one of a kind
Looking for immortality.
Dreams come in many ways.
In sleep just before awakening.

In wakefulness when a soul has just reached up for the stars.
But however they come, do not curse a dream,
Or deny a dream, or forget a dream, for a dream is a part of you.
 

Somebody once said "The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement." Make room in your life for improvement. And if you think you are already very good, look closely. You might still want to tweak a few things to make you better.

***************************  

STARTED on my other blog Wyrick’s Writings . Serialization of another of my books SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING
 

This book, SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING, is about dealing positively with the challenges of getting older and fosters the belief that “If we would have new knowledge, we must get a world of new questions.” (Susanne K. Langer)
 

“I am come that they (you) may have life and have it to the full. (John 10:10)
 

Anyone who lives long enough gets older. There are no other options. How we handle the adventure is filled with options.
 

Keep both eyes on life, and not on the calendar. Admit your age, but don’t admit to the fallacy that you have to act like it. Saying, “I’m 39 and holding,” is more tragic than humorous because it argues that age has no attributes. 


V. Neil Wyrick

Below a quote from it…


“Be like the farmer who, when asked what he was building, replied, “if I can rent it, it’s a rustic cottage. If I can’t, it’s a cow shed.”

It’s called attitude and it can make us prematurely old or longer young. For truly, things aren’t just what they are, but rather how we choose to see them.”
TO READ THE BEGINNING OF THIS NEW SERIES

CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com

***************************

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


*************************************
A quote below from ONE A DAY blog entitled EVANGELISM – BREAKTHROUGH OR BREAKDOWN?
 

“Evangelism never was a great issue in the New Testament? Nowhere in its reading does one find Apostles exhorting, scolding, planning and organizing evangelistic programs.
 

There was no real need for a 10 Point Follow Through Program for the simple reason that a rather large number of early church members had a propensity for not shutting up.
 

In the Apostolic church, because so many were on fire for their faith, evangelism was somehow assumed.
It was 1948 when Gulag Irkutsk, a Christian believer in Siberia, received a 25-year sentence. After refusing to work on the Sabbath, he was ordered to stand in a 3 x 4 foot cell for 10 days with only water for nourishment.
 

For a year Irkutsk went through…”
**************************  

TO VISIT Neil’s other blog WYRICK’S WRITING (A variety of serializations; a novel on Sunday and Tuesday and Thursday varying subjects) (3 times a week added to) 

CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com


****************************  

TO WATCH NEIL WYRICK IN HIS ONE MAN DRAMAS (Presented to millions all around the world) (Ben Franiklin, Martin Luther, Charles Wesley and Abraham Lincoln (this Lincoln film takes 11 seconds to download but is worth the wait)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING
http://www.speakerneil.com/


************************************