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We all seek happiness without consciously realizing it often is to be found in simple things.
A boy and his dog; the transforming love of a young man and woman; a glass of cool, clear water; a bird’s song; a baby’s smile.
A long time ago I read a poem that perhaps puts things in a better perspective. I’ve repeated it from pulpits and sometimes just to myself to do the inside of my head and heart good.
Suppose that people had to pay
To see the crimson sunset play
Or the magic stars of the Milky Way.
Suppose it was fifty cents a night
to see the great moon’s saffron light
Or watch a gull in its graceful flight.
How much, I wonder would it be worth,
To smell the good, brown, fragrant earth
In spring? The miracle of birth.
For a baby’s laugh at the close of day?
Suppose God charges us for them, I say!
Suppose God charges us for them, I say!
Suppose God charged us for the rain
Or put a purchase price on a song-bird’s strain
Of music, the dawn, the mist on the plain.
How much would an autumn landscape cost,
Or a window etched with winter’s frost,
And the rainbow’s glory so quickly lost?
How much do you think people would pay
For the cry of a child at the close of a day.
For the cry of a child at the close of a day.
Suppose God charged us for them, I say!
Suppose we paid to look at the hills,
For the rippling sound of the mountain rills.
Or the mating song of the whippoorwills.
Or curving breakers of the sea,
For grace, and beauty, and majesty?
For grace, and beauty, and majesty?
And for all these things he gives us free
may we give thanks on bended knee.
A Quote FROM Rev. Wyrick’s 9TH BOOK “THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN”
Why concern ourselves with spirituality as against the equivalent of a political science degree?
What
real difference does it make that Christianity needs to be up front and
center in the lives of our leaders? Because the very freedoms and
style of living we enjoy come as gifts from Christianity.
Before
Christ walked this earth and set up a new standard of humanity, life in
the Greco-Roman world was cheap and expendable. Killing of infants was
readily accepted. Child abandonment was commonplace.
Abortions
and suicides were widespread and legal. Its corrupt belief system
became the mother of chaos. It is, therefore, little wonder Rome fell.
And America
can fall just as easily if it forgets that religion can survive without
freedom, but freedom cannot long survive without religion.
THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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I almost drowned once. It is
a terrifying experience. One gets very used to breathing. I had taught
swimming in summer camp. Passed the Red Cross Life Saving course.
Water-skied 50 miles an hour. Now I found I could not even stand to have the water flow over my face when I took a shower.
So I had two choices. Give in to my fear or fight it.
I
fought it. Stuck my head in a few inches of water in a basin for five
seconds, then ten and finally a minute. I kept working on my private
demon until one day, six month later, I was behind a ski boat with ski
rope in hand. I was filled with panic, not just fear. I skied anyway. I
fell and did not drown. I began to overcome the anxiety.
I
refused to have a love affair with fear that could have become a
permanent downer. Did I completely conquer my fear? No. Was I better off
than if I had given in? Definitely.
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number of years ago two scientists conducted an experiment with a
sheep. They tied a piece of wire around the leg of a normal sheep in the
midst of other sheep. Then at regular intervals they would send an
electric shock through the wire making the leg twitch. The sheep’s
behavior remained normal. He ate well, slept well, acted quite nicely,
twitching appendage and all. Then the scientists added another factor.
They
began to ring a bell ten seconds before they administered the shock.
Within a very short period of time the sheep began to demonstrate all
the symptoms of severe anxiety neurosis. His eating habits went from bad
to worse. He couldn't sleep. He took to avoiding the other sheep. He
became highly nervous and agitated.
It is
the same with all the people who every day promise themselves it is
going to be a bad day, and then work very hard at making their prophecy
come true.
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