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The reporter saw before him a 95 year-old-man who was still the greatest cellist who had ever lived, and he had to ask the question. “You, Pablo Casals, are recognized as having more talent than any other cellist…yet I understand that you still practice six hours a day.
Why?”
“Because I believe I am still making progress.”
And that is why you and I must continue to make resolutions and practice at this business of living because that is what it is all about…making progress…learning… achieving…improving… never quitting.
Work at making a better life rather than making better excuses.
It is simple, yet not simple at all….HARD but achievable.
How?
Don’t put doors where there should be walls and walls where there should be doors.
Be a giver rather than a taker. Generosity gives you a spiritual backbone that selfishness will never give you.
Get in the habit of doing the right thing the first time rather than putting it off until some time down the road.
When you are wrong, admit it.
You might as well…most everyone you know has already admitted it for you.
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“Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it." James 4:17
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROW’S ONE A DAY BLOG entitled BIG DEVIL, LITTLE DEVIL
Inspired by C.S. Lewis’ book, Screwtape Letters, I have expanded a conversation that takes place between two devils.
One is the big devil himself and because it is not easy being a devil, what with all the devilish little nuances always in play, he says with a malicious smile written across his face, “Little devil, I want to be sure you understand how important it is that you allow your victims to think great thoughts, espouse noble ideas, and even attend church regularly, but never actually do anything.
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Friday, January 7, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
KEEP ON KEEPING ON
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Her name is Suzy Favor Hamilton and she ran in the women’s 1500 meter final. She didn’t win the race, or come in second or third. Actually, she collapsed 75 meters from the finish line and then staggering to her feet managed to continue on.
She barely made it and had to be taken off the track slumped in a wheel chair. She had not won, but then again, she had. She had completed her goal - she had finished the race.
The Apostle Paul talks about finishing the race.” He doesn’t say, “I have won it” but he does say “I have finished the race…” And he added one thing more. “I have kept the faith.”
That is what we are asked to do. Run and walk and stumble and fall and rise again…and keep on moving forward…and be able to say at the very last, “I never quit. I kept on keeping on.
In short, work hard at developing a stronger “will” and a weaker “won't.”
Nor should you fall in love with a parking spot when the whole wide wonderful world is so full of opportunities…and yes…remember…the secret to success is learning how to fail.
And may I ask a question, “Have you tried to climb any mountains recently? I thought not. But that is not the point…climbing a few steps on the stairs is better than no climbing at all.”
And then there is my favorite when things get rough and you start giving up…”When you get to the end of your rope, tie a know in it and hang on.”
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. “
Galatians 6:9 KJV
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Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled GET IN THE HABIT OF DOING THE RIGHT THING
“Don’t put doors where there should be walls and walls where there should be doors.
Be a giver rather than a taker. Generosity gives you a spiritual backbone that selfishness will never give you.”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES entitled ANGER IS A KILLER.
It begins Thursday January 6, 2010. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies? No?
Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.
Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”
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Her name is Suzy Favor Hamilton and she ran in the women’s 1500 meter final. She didn’t win the race, or come in second or third. Actually, she collapsed 75 meters from the finish line and then staggering to her feet managed to continue on.
She barely made it and had to be taken off the track slumped in a wheel chair. She had not won, but then again, she had. She had completed her goal - she had finished the race.
The Apostle Paul talks about finishing the race.” He doesn’t say, “I have won it” but he does say “I have finished the race…” And he added one thing more. “I have kept the faith.”
That is what we are asked to do. Run and walk and stumble and fall and rise again…and keep on moving forward…and be able to say at the very last, “I never quit. I kept on keeping on.
In short, work hard at developing a stronger “will” and a weaker “won't.”
Nor should you fall in love with a parking spot when the whole wide wonderful world is so full of opportunities…and yes…remember…the secret to success is learning how to fail.
And may I ask a question, “Have you tried to climb any mountains recently? I thought not. But that is not the point…climbing a few steps on the stairs is better than no climbing at all.”
And then there is my favorite when things get rough and you start giving up…”When you get to the end of your rope, tie a know in it and hang on.”
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. “
Galatians 6:9 KJV
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Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled GET IN THE HABIT OF DOING THE RIGHT THING
“Don’t put doors where there should be walls and walls where there should be doors.
Be a giver rather than a taker. Generosity gives you a spiritual backbone that selfishness will never give you.”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES entitled ANGER IS A KILLER.
It begins Thursday January 6, 2010. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies? No?
Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.
Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
THE NEW MORALITY
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In 1631, England's royal printers reprinted the Bible but somehow omitted the ''not'' in Exodus 20:14, the seventh commandment concerning adultery. The printers, were fined £300 and lost their license.
The archbishop of Canterbury complained about the declining standards of the proofreaders.
There is no humor in today’s attitudes toward moral behavior which is why so many references are constantly being made in the direction of ancient Rome. Therefore…to all parents and grandparents…
Don’t let your misbehaving teenager or grand daughter or grand son justify his or her actions with the term new morality.
There is no new morality or old morality. There is only morality.
And, yes, “We don’t break the Ten Commandment. If we ignore them, they break us.”
Discuss what it would be like of most people were vandals and roamed the streets with graffiti spraying paint cans or worse.
Talk about what kind of a world it would be if marriage became old hat and sexual predators roamed by the thousands.
Suggest the effect of thousands dying day after day because no one showed any kind of moral restraint.
Say things like, “Be good, son of mine, as an act of courage in a world full of moral cowards.” “Be good, daughter of mine, as an act of thanksgiving to God.” To your teenager underline with vigor that he or she is a force for good or a force for evil and that there is no in between.
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20)
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Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled… KEEP ON KEEPING ON
“Her name is Suzy Favor Hamilton and she ran in the women’s 1500 meter final. She didn’t win the race, or come in second or third. Actually, she collapsed 75 meters from the finish line and then staggering to her feet managed to continue on.
She barely made it and had to be taken off the track slumped in a wheel chair. She had not won, but then…”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES entitled ANGER IS A KILLER.
It begins Thursday January 6, 2010. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS) (3)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“Do you enjoy visiting friends?
More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies?
No?
Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often.
Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.
Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”
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V. Neil Wyrick’s ninth book is THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN and is now available on amazon.com at some rather good discount prices (Also, available for your Kindle)
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In 1631, England's royal printers reprinted the Bible but somehow omitted the ''not'' in Exodus 20:14, the seventh commandment concerning adultery. The printers, were fined £300 and lost their license.
The archbishop of Canterbury complained about the declining standards of the proofreaders.
There is no humor in today’s attitudes toward moral behavior which is why so many references are constantly being made in the direction of ancient Rome. Therefore…to all parents and grandparents…
Don’t let your misbehaving teenager or grand daughter or grand son justify his or her actions with the term new morality.
There is no new morality or old morality. There is only morality.
And, yes, “We don’t break the Ten Commandment. If we ignore them, they break us.”
Discuss what it would be like of most people were vandals and roamed the streets with graffiti spraying paint cans or worse.
Talk about what kind of a world it would be if marriage became old hat and sexual predators roamed by the thousands.
Suggest the effect of thousands dying day after day because no one showed any kind of moral restraint.
Say things like, “Be good, son of mine, as an act of courage in a world full of moral cowards.” “Be good, daughter of mine, as an act of thanksgiving to God.” To your teenager underline with vigor that he or she is a force for good or a force for evil and that there is no in between.
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20)
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Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled… KEEP ON KEEPING ON
“Her name is Suzy Favor Hamilton and she ran in the women’s 1500 meter final. She didn’t win the race, or come in second or third. Actually, she collapsed 75 meters from the finish line and then staggering to her feet managed to continue on.
She barely made it and had to be taken off the track slumped in a wheel chair. She had not won, but then…”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES entitled ANGER IS A KILLER.
It begins Thursday January 6, 2010. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS) (3)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“Do you enjoy visiting friends?
More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies?
No?
Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often.
Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.
Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”
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V. Neil Wyrick’s ninth book is THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN and is now available on amazon.com at some rather good discount prices (Also, available for your Kindle)
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Lighten Up
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No where in the Bible does it say, “Blessed are they who frown and fuss.” Laughter? There are homes where no one has laughed for years. Businesses, where grim is the password for keeping a job. Hard working employers and employees who wear frowns like a badge of honor.
Sure, there are things in the world that are truly a pain. Nor will a sense of humor turn them into pleasure. Nevertheless when it comes time to pay your taxes it helps to have at the ready a thought such as: did you ever stop to think that the IRS is really just doing the Lord’s work? After all doesn’t the Bible say we came into this world without riches and that we shall take no riches with us into the next.
Or, if when someone said “Go break a leg” and you took them seriously; bring up a joke from your reserves. Something that reads, “It really is a bad day when you end up in the hospital in traction and there sits your insurance man telling you ‘Your accident policy covers falling off the roof. It just doesn’t cover hitting the ground.’”
Would you have more happiness? Then minimize your complaints and maximize your thanksgiving. “Earth’s crammed with heaven,” said Thoreau. Love, light, laughter.
The smile of a child. The ripple of a stream. A sparkling star. A rainbow. Gripes, grumbles and grousings certainly don’t offer much help.
Tonight go outside and learn a lesson from God’s great firmament. Look up at the sky, observe the stars surrounded by the vast darkness of space and then consider how they never notice the dark because they are too busy making light.
Helen Keller, born deaf, dumb and blind, had a sense of humor that combined with a sense of God allowed her to answer one day when someone asked if she could feel colors “Oh yes, I can feel blue.”
Would you have more happiness? Be able to laugh at yourself, in particular if the years are slowing you down and you are tired of being tired. Like commenting how when you get up some mornings you feel like it’s the morning after and you didn’t do anything the night before.
Loosen up. Stand on a New York City street and look up at the tall skyscrapers without caring what people watching you are thinking.
Don’t fret and worry over trying to mold yourself into a thousand different selves. Just be you.
Don’t always be sensible. Have the nerve to take a walk in the rain without an umbrella or take off your shoes and wiggle your toes in the mud. Bellow in the shower like an opera star. Share your love of life with such gusto that when you walk into a room everyone there will be glad you came.
Crank up your neurological-movie house on a regular basis, and watch mental movies of good times in your past.
Remember the kitten, now grown to be a cat, arriving at your back door. And the bicycle you once regularly rode and ought to ride again. Remember that great day you accepted Jesus as Savior. Shine up your today’s by bringing up the best of your yesterdays.
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made know to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and yours mind in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:6-7)
This really shouldn’t be too hard too understand since it simply suggest that trying to go it alone is a poor excuse for a lack of common sense.
When I was a boy I learned both the shorter and the longer Catechism. No one does it anymore, but I did. I still remember one phrase that still shouts at my soul, “The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever.”
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Quote below from tomorrow’s ONE A DAY blog entitled THE NEW MORALITY
“We don’t break the Ten Commandment. If we ignore them, they break us.”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)
click on URL below to go to Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (quote from Sunday Jan 2 2011 Heavenly Construction Program)
“I have always been intrigued by a question God put to Adam, “Where are you?” Why did He ask that? What is the meaning behind this? It wasn’t a geographical question, for certainly God knew the answer to that one.
It was a spiritual question to which God also had the answer. Then why ask it? For Adam’s sake, and all the Adams and Eves yet to come. For you and me in these 21st century days.
“Where are we? And where do we want to go? What do we want to be? And how much, or how little?” And we must never stop trying to answer God’s question as we try to get off a treadmill and aim toward a proper direction.
It’s called purpose, and…”
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No where in the Bible does it say, “Blessed are they who frown and fuss.” Laughter? There are homes where no one has laughed for years. Businesses, where grim is the password for keeping a job. Hard working employers and employees who wear frowns like a badge of honor.
Sure, there are things in the world that are truly a pain. Nor will a sense of humor turn them into pleasure. Nevertheless when it comes time to pay your taxes it helps to have at the ready a thought such as: did you ever stop to think that the IRS is really just doing the Lord’s work? After all doesn’t the Bible say we came into this world without riches and that we shall take no riches with us into the next.
Or, if when someone said “Go break a leg” and you took them seriously; bring up a joke from your reserves. Something that reads, “It really is a bad day when you end up in the hospital in traction and there sits your insurance man telling you ‘Your accident policy covers falling off the roof. It just doesn’t cover hitting the ground.’”
Would you have more happiness? Then minimize your complaints and maximize your thanksgiving. “Earth’s crammed with heaven,” said Thoreau. Love, light, laughter.
The smile of a child. The ripple of a stream. A sparkling star. A rainbow. Gripes, grumbles and grousings certainly don’t offer much help.
Tonight go outside and learn a lesson from God’s great firmament. Look up at the sky, observe the stars surrounded by the vast darkness of space and then consider how they never notice the dark because they are too busy making light.
Helen Keller, born deaf, dumb and blind, had a sense of humor that combined with a sense of God allowed her to answer one day when someone asked if she could feel colors “Oh yes, I can feel blue.”
Would you have more happiness? Be able to laugh at yourself, in particular if the years are slowing you down and you are tired of being tired. Like commenting how when you get up some mornings you feel like it’s the morning after and you didn’t do anything the night before.
Loosen up. Stand on a New York City street and look up at the tall skyscrapers without caring what people watching you are thinking.
Don’t fret and worry over trying to mold yourself into a thousand different selves. Just be you.
Don’t always be sensible. Have the nerve to take a walk in the rain without an umbrella or take off your shoes and wiggle your toes in the mud. Bellow in the shower like an opera star. Share your love of life with such gusto that when you walk into a room everyone there will be glad you came.
Crank up your neurological-movie house on a regular basis, and watch mental movies of good times in your past.
Remember the kitten, now grown to be a cat, arriving at your back door. And the bicycle you once regularly rode and ought to ride again. Remember that great day you accepted Jesus as Savior. Shine up your today’s by bringing up the best of your yesterdays.
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made know to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and yours mind in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:6-7)
This really shouldn’t be too hard too understand since it simply suggest that trying to go it alone is a poor excuse for a lack of common sense.
When I was a boy I learned both the shorter and the longer Catechism. No one does it anymore, but I did. I still remember one phrase that still shouts at my soul, “The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever.”
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Quote below from tomorrow’s ONE A DAY blog entitled THE NEW MORALITY
“We don’t break the Ten Commandment. If we ignore them, they break us.”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)
click on URL below to go to Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (quote from Sunday Jan 2 2011 Heavenly Construction Program)
“I have always been intrigued by a question God put to Adam, “Where are you?” Why did He ask that? What is the meaning behind this? It wasn’t a geographical question, for certainly God knew the answer to that one.
It was a spiritual question to which God also had the answer. Then why ask it? For Adam’s sake, and all the Adams and Eves yet to come. For you and me in these 21st century days.
“Where are we? And where do we want to go? What do we want to be? And how much, or how little?” And we must never stop trying to answer God’s question as we try to get off a treadmill and aim toward a proper direction.
It’s called purpose, and…”
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Monday, January 3, 2011
GOD IS WITH US…
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An old preacher friend of mine used to counsel me, “Neil, if your knees are knocking, kneel on them.” Or another way of putting it, “You don’t have to worry about running from worry when you are practicing patella persuasion.”
When twin towers are built and when they waver and fall to the ground in terrible pieces. God is with us long before dawn and long after dusk. On the blackest night or when the brightest moon sweeps away the darkness, God is with us.
And speaking of tall…Would you stand tall and sun crowned above the crowd? Then…Think eternity. Think salvation. Think wonderment and awe about the Creator of it all.
Put God on the back burner and the griddle of life you are sitting on will only seem the hotter. The great question must always be; how can a skinny soul deal with the big, fat problems of life?
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**You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
—Isaiah 26:3-4
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A quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled LIGHTEN UP
“No where in the Bible does it say, “Blessed are they who frown and fuss.” Laughter? There are homes where no one has laughed for years. Businesses, where grim is the password for keeping a job. Hard working employers and employees who wear frowns like a badge of honor.
Sure, there are things in the world that are truly a pain. Nor will a sense of humor turn them into pleasure. Nevertheless when it comes time to pay your taxes it helps to have at the ready a thought such as: did you ever stop to think that the IRS is really just doing the Lord’s work? After all doesn’t the Bible say…”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)
click on URL below to go to Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (quote from Sunday Jan 2 2011 Heavenly Construction Program)
“I have always been intrigued by a question God put to Adam, “Where are you?” Why did He ask that? What is the meaning behind this? It wasn’t a geographical question, for certainly God knew the answer to that one.
It was a spiritual question to which God also had the answer. Then why ask it? For Adam’s sake, and all the Adams and Eves yet to come.
For you and me in these 21st century days.
“Where are we? And where do we want to go?
What do we want to be? And how much, or how little?” And we must never stop trying to answer God’s question as we try to get off a treadmill and aim toward a proper direction.
It’s called purpose, and…”
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A Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
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CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to bring up Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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An old preacher friend of mine used to counsel me, “Neil, if your knees are knocking, kneel on them.” Or another way of putting it, “You don’t have to worry about running from worry when you are practicing patella persuasion.”
When twin towers are built and when they waver and fall to the ground in terrible pieces. God is with us long before dawn and long after dusk. On the blackest night or when the brightest moon sweeps away the darkness, God is with us.
And speaking of tall…Would you stand tall and sun crowned above the crowd? Then…Think eternity. Think salvation. Think wonderment and awe about the Creator of it all.
Put God on the back burner and the griddle of life you are sitting on will only seem the hotter. The great question must always be; how can a skinny soul deal with the big, fat problems of life?
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**You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
—Isaiah 26:3-4
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A quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled LIGHTEN UP
“No where in the Bible does it say, “Blessed are they who frown and fuss.” Laughter? There are homes where no one has laughed for years. Businesses, where grim is the password for keeping a job. Hard working employers and employees who wear frowns like a badge of honor.
Sure, there are things in the world that are truly a pain. Nor will a sense of humor turn them into pleasure. Nevertheless when it comes time to pay your taxes it helps to have at the ready a thought such as: did you ever stop to think that the IRS is really just doing the Lord’s work? After all doesn’t the Bible say…”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)
click on URL below to go to Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (quote from Sunday Jan 2 2011 Heavenly Construction Program)
“I have always been intrigued by a question God put to Adam, “Where are you?” Why did He ask that? What is the meaning behind this? It wasn’t a geographical question, for certainly God knew the answer to that one.
It was a spiritual question to which God also had the answer. Then why ask it? For Adam’s sake, and all the Adams and Eves yet to come.
For you and me in these 21st century days.
“Where are we? And where do we want to go?
What do we want to be? And how much, or how little?” And we must never stop trying to answer God’s question as we try to get off a treadmill and aim toward a proper direction.
It’s called purpose, and…”
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A Series on PAIN AND PROBLEMS
began on his other blog “Wyrick’s Writings” Thursday September 16,
the 2nd in series on Sept 19…
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CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to bring up Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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Sunday, January 2, 2011
ANXIETY, FIGHT IT OR FEED IT (Third in new series)
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It was said of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, that he arose each morning at four A.M., preached over 40,000 times and traveled over 250,000 miles on horseback. And, in the course of all of this, he never hurried, he never worried and he never let foolish anxieties wear him down.
Connie Mack was a baseball manager and not a preacher but he early learned a truth that allowed him to perform brilliantly the intricacies of life.
He used to say that he forced himself to spend his time preparing to win future games rather than wasting time and energy worrying about games he had lost. “You can’t grind grain with water that has already gone down the creek,” was one of his favorite booster phrases.
One of the field hands in my first rural pastorate often mused, “When I work, I work ha
rd. When I sit, I sit loose. And when I start to worry, I just go to sleep.”
“The future ain’t what it used to be” said Yogi Berra, as he sought to explain that whether things are bad or better we are most often bothered when they are different than we thought they would be.
Today we have Afghanistan; but remember Y2K not that long ago. Remember Vietnam, the Korean War, W.W. II.
It is truly hard to picture a time when there has not been some kind of political, economic or social turmoil.
Therefore, when problems come to call let the calendar be a teacher as you wisely “Wait upon the Lord; be of good courage, and (let Him) He shall strengthen thy heart.” (Psalm 27:14)
It is good to be able to stand on your own two feet, but some proper propping up by God certainly isn’t out of order “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee…” (Isaiah 26:3)
Call it prayer partnership. Call it linking with your creator. Call it spiritual common sense.
I like the way one little old lady, with ninety years linked up behind her, approached life.” She lived far out in the country all by herself and when asked if she was ever afraid, replied, “Why should I be? Faith closes my door at night and Mercy opens it in the morning.
Professional worry warts abound; camping on doctors doorsteps with imaginary ills until such anxieties produce the real thing. Others fall victim to the 9/11 syndrome and refuse to fly though driving is still more dangerous.
The beginning of any solution is to seek out proper authorities.
As Christians, once we have read the first class authority Jesus, Take no thought (anxiety) for the morrow(Matt.6:31), it makes common sense to find outstanding examples of those who have taken his words to heart.
Whatever anxiety moments find our doorstep, if we are to accomplish well the art of living we have to learn how to cooperate with the inevitable. An appointment made and our watch stops. Gone fishing and the only thing we catch is a bad cold in a rainstorm.
When such things happen we are not required to like what is happening, but at least we must learn to learn from a problem. This way it is not a complete waste of time.
Before we traded in our 1986 Dodge several years ago, we had a car that majored in stalling. It reminded me of 1 Timothy 1:6, Kindle afresh the gift of God. It didn’t kindle afresh. It didn’t want to go.
It was a king of quitters. Our present, newer car (not that new but certainly newer) doesn’t do that. It starts, never stutters then stops. Every time we want to go somewhere it kindles afresh with remarkable enthusiasm. There are dangers all around on the highway but it never notices. It is the epitome of confidence.
We banter the Biblical truth of the power of the Holy Spirit around when it comes to organizing our fight with fear. But Victory over anxiety requires more than spiritual repartee.
Emotional conquest only comes when we finally truly accept that the secret of finding the peace that passeth understanding is to not waste time trying to understand it.
Just thankfully accept the fact that peace comes from the presence of something rather than the absence of something. And that something is God.
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A quote from tomorrow’s blog entitled GOD IS WITH US
“An old preacher friend of mine used to counsel me, “Neil, if your knees are knocking, kneel on them.” Or another way of putting it, “You don’t have to worry about running from worry when you are practicing patella persuasion.”
When twin towers are built and…”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)
click on URL below to go to Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (quote from Sunday Jan 2 2011 Heavenly Construction Program)
“I have always been intrigued by a question God put to Adam, “Where are you?” Why did He ask that? What is the meaning behind this? It wasn’t a geographical question, for certainly God knew the answer to that one.
It was a spiritual question to which God also had the answer. Then why ask it? For Adam’s sake, and all the Adams and Eves yet to come. For you and me in these 21st century days.
“Where are we? And where do we want to go? What do we want to be? And how much, or how little?” And we must never stop trying to answer God’s question as we try to get off a treadmill and aim toward a proper direction.
It’s called purpose, and…”
******************************************
V. Neil Wyrick’s ninth book is THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN and is now available on amazon.com at some rather good discount prices
********************************************
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.
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It was said of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, that he arose each morning at four A.M., preached over 40,000 times and traveled over 250,000 miles on horseback. And, in the course of all of this, he never hurried, he never worried and he never let foolish anxieties wear him down.
Connie Mack was a baseball manager and not a preacher but he early learned a truth that allowed him to perform brilliantly the intricacies of life.
He used to say that he forced himself to spend his time preparing to win future games rather than wasting time and energy worrying about games he had lost. “You can’t grind grain with water that has already gone down the creek,” was one of his favorite booster phrases.
One of the field hands in my first rural pastorate often mused, “When I work, I work ha
rd. When I sit, I sit loose. And when I start to worry, I just go to sleep.”
“The future ain’t what it used to be” said Yogi Berra, as he sought to explain that whether things are bad or better we are most often bothered when they are different than we thought they would be.
Today we have Afghanistan; but remember Y2K not that long ago. Remember Vietnam, the Korean War, W.W. II.
It is truly hard to picture a time when there has not been some kind of political, economic or social turmoil.
Therefore, when problems come to call let the calendar be a teacher as you wisely “Wait upon the Lord; be of good courage, and (let Him) He shall strengthen thy heart.” (Psalm 27:14)
It is good to be able to stand on your own two feet, but some proper propping up by God certainly isn’t out of order “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee…” (Isaiah 26:3)
Call it prayer partnership. Call it linking with your creator. Call it spiritual common sense.
I like the way one little old lady, with ninety years linked up behind her, approached life.” She lived far out in the country all by herself and when asked if she was ever afraid, replied, “Why should I be? Faith closes my door at night and Mercy opens it in the morning.
Professional worry warts abound; camping on doctors doorsteps with imaginary ills until such anxieties produce the real thing. Others fall victim to the 9/11 syndrome and refuse to fly though driving is still more dangerous.
The beginning of any solution is to seek out proper authorities.
As Christians, once we have read the first class authority Jesus, Take no thought (anxiety) for the morrow(Matt.6:31), it makes common sense to find outstanding examples of those who have taken his words to heart.
Whatever anxiety moments find our doorstep, if we are to accomplish well the art of living we have to learn how to cooperate with the inevitable. An appointment made and our watch stops. Gone fishing and the only thing we catch is a bad cold in a rainstorm.
When such things happen we are not required to like what is happening, but at least we must learn to learn from a problem. This way it is not a complete waste of time.
Before we traded in our 1986 Dodge several years ago, we had a car that majored in stalling. It reminded me of 1 Timothy 1:6, Kindle afresh the gift of God. It didn’t kindle afresh. It didn’t want to go.
It was a king of quitters. Our present, newer car (not that new but certainly newer) doesn’t do that. It starts, never stutters then stops. Every time we want to go somewhere it kindles afresh with remarkable enthusiasm. There are dangers all around on the highway but it never notices. It is the epitome of confidence.
We banter the Biblical truth of the power of the Holy Spirit around when it comes to organizing our fight with fear. But Victory over anxiety requires more than spiritual repartee.
Emotional conquest only comes when we finally truly accept that the secret of finding the peace that passeth understanding is to not waste time trying to understand it.
Just thankfully accept the fact that peace comes from the presence of something rather than the absence of something. And that something is God.
****************************************
A quote from tomorrow’s blog entitled GOD IS WITH US
“An old preacher friend of mine used to counsel me, “Neil, if your knees are knocking, kneel on them.” Or another way of putting it, “You don’t have to worry about running from worry when you are practicing patella persuasion.”
When twin towers are built and…”
******************************************
BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)
click on URL below to go to Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
*******************************************
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (quote from Sunday Jan 2 2011 Heavenly Construction Program)
“I have always been intrigued by a question God put to Adam, “Where are you?” Why did He ask that? What is the meaning behind this? It wasn’t a geographical question, for certainly God knew the answer to that one.
It was a spiritual question to which God also had the answer. Then why ask it? For Adam’s sake, and all the Adams and Eves yet to come. For you and me in these 21st century days.
“Where are we? And where do we want to go? What do we want to be? And how much, or how little?” And we must never stop trying to answer God’s question as we try to get off a treadmill and aim toward a proper direction.
It’s called purpose, and…”
******************************************
V. Neil Wyrick’s ninth book is THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN and is now available on amazon.com at some rather good discount prices
********************************************
Saturday, January 1, 2011
ANXIETY, FIGHT IT OR FEED IT (Second in new series)
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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.
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There is a classic remark I love to repeat when calling attention about worrying so much about tomorrow. It reads "If course worry about tomorrow is good for you. Most things I worry about happening tomorrow never happen."
And then...
Have you heard about the man who had a plane to catch at a very early hour and then having set his alarm , sat on the edge of his bed all night long to make sure it went off on time.
He earned his PhD in anxiety. He had worry down to a science.
He believed that living one day at a time meant never or seldom sleeping so he would always know what time of day it was.
So then, where and how can a pound of fortitude be found to control a pound of fear before it becomes a ton of anxiety?
And therein lies the rub, because many a fear that was can become an anxiety that isn’t.
Timothy 1:7 offers a spiritual pilgrimage as a way of weighing worrisome things properly. “God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.”
It’s all about imaging. Such as placing your fears in your hands and then handing those fears to God. Imagery does that…picture it and whatever you are imaging comes alive…praying hands for instance…you can pray without placing your hands in a prayer position but the imagery just makes it more personally powerful.
And when you do pray…don’t just tip your toe in the idea…immerse yourself…from the tip of that exploring toe to the top of your head…as wide and deep as you soul can stretch…I like the way one preacher put it, “Saturate yourself with prayer.”
And have you perhaps gotten yourself in trouble by borrowing too much. Well, don’t do it when anxiety is anywhere close…don’t borrow trouble by imaging it…all imagery isn’t good.
In particular if there are anxious moments just over the horizon. Wait till you get there. That shadow you are worrying about may by the time you get there have you standing in the sun.
And lastly …initiate an adoption program…adopt some scriptures that have great meaning and then let them raise you right. Make them a part of your family of thoughts. Invite them to breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Have them with you when you stop for a mid morning snack…so that as you feed your mind your whole body tingles because of the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Joining hands with David and his words also has a winning to it, “Submit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in Him…(Psalm 37:5)
If there is a truth that should be written across the roof of the sky it is this. When one can say and mean “…though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.” (Psalm 23) it is an affirmation that has the touch of miracle in it. Why? Because when one is not afraid to die, one is not afraid to live.
****************************************
Below is a quote from tomorrow’s blog entitled
ANXIETY, FIGHT IT OR FEED IT (Third in new series)
It was said of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, that he arose each morning at four A.M., preached over 40,000 times and traveled over 250,000 miles on horseback. And, in the course of all of this, he never hurried, he never worried and he never let foolish anxieties wear him down.
BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)
click on URL below to go to Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (quote from Sunday Jan 2 2011 Heavenly Construction Program)
“I have always been intrigued by a question God put to Adam, “Where are you?” Why did He ask that? What is the meaning behind this? It wasn’t a geographical question, for certainly God knew the answer to that one.
It was a spiritual question to which God also had the answer. Then why ask it? For Adam’s sake, and all the Adams and Eves yet to come. For you and me in these 21st century days.
“Where are we? And where do we want to go? What do we want to be? And how much, or how little?” And we must never stop trying to answer God’s question as we try to get off a treadmill and aim toward a proper direction.
It’s called purpose, and…”
*******************************************
V. Neil Wyrick’s ninth book is THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN and is now available on amazon.com at some rather good discount prices
********************************************
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.
********************************
There is a classic remark I love to repeat when calling attention about worrying so much about tomorrow. It reads "If course worry about tomorrow is good for you. Most things I worry about happening tomorrow never happen."
And then...
Have you heard about the man who had a plane to catch at a very early hour and then having set his alarm , sat on the edge of his bed all night long to make sure it went off on time.
He earned his PhD in anxiety. He had worry down to a science.
He believed that living one day at a time meant never or seldom sleeping so he would always know what time of day it was.
So then, where and how can a pound of fortitude be found to control a pound of fear before it becomes a ton of anxiety?
And therein lies the rub, because many a fear that was can become an anxiety that isn’t.
Timothy 1:7 offers a spiritual pilgrimage as a way of weighing worrisome things properly. “God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.”
It’s all about imaging. Such as placing your fears in your hands and then handing those fears to God. Imagery does that…picture it and whatever you are imaging comes alive…praying hands for instance…you can pray without placing your hands in a prayer position but the imagery just makes it more personally powerful.
And when you do pray…don’t just tip your toe in the idea…immerse yourself…from the tip of that exploring toe to the top of your head…as wide and deep as you soul can stretch…I like the way one preacher put it, “Saturate yourself with prayer.”
And have you perhaps gotten yourself in trouble by borrowing too much. Well, don’t do it when anxiety is anywhere close…don’t borrow trouble by imaging it…all imagery isn’t good.
In particular if there are anxious moments just over the horizon. Wait till you get there. That shadow you are worrying about may by the time you get there have you standing in the sun.
And lastly …initiate an adoption program…adopt some scriptures that have great meaning and then let them raise you right. Make them a part of your family of thoughts. Invite them to breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Have them with you when you stop for a mid morning snack…so that as you feed your mind your whole body tingles because of the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Joining hands with David and his words also has a winning to it, “Submit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in Him…(Psalm 37:5)
If there is a truth that should be written across the roof of the sky it is this. When one can say and mean “…though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.” (Psalm 23) it is an affirmation that has the touch of miracle in it. Why? Because when one is not afraid to die, one is not afraid to live.
****************************************
Below is a quote from tomorrow’s blog entitled
ANXIETY, FIGHT IT OR FEED IT (Third in new series)
It was said of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, that he arose each morning at four A.M., preached over 40,000 times and traveled over 250,000 miles on horseback. And, in the course of all of this, he never hurried, he never worried and he never let foolish anxieties wear him down.
BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)
click on URL below to go to Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (quote from Sunday Jan 2 2011 Heavenly Construction Program)
“I have always been intrigued by a question God put to Adam, “Where are you?” Why did He ask that? What is the meaning behind this? It wasn’t a geographical question, for certainly God knew the answer to that one.
It was a spiritual question to which God also had the answer. Then why ask it? For Adam’s sake, and all the Adams and Eves yet to come. For you and me in these 21st century days.
“Where are we? And where do we want to go? What do we want to be? And how much, or how little?” And we must never stop trying to answer God’s question as we try to get off a treadmill and aim toward a proper direction.
It’s called purpose, and…”
*******************************************
V. Neil Wyrick’s ninth book is THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN and is now available on amazon.com at some rather good discount prices
********************************************
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