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Fifty four years ago, at age sixteen to be exact, I decided to become a minister. Do you know what almost stopped me from following through on that decision?
Some of the ministers I knew who acted as if having fun was a sin. That telling a joke was frivolous. That looking super somber was the way to go. That you couldn’t be a Christian and look like you were enjoying it.
I don’t find that attitude as often these days, but ere now and then I still see it in some preachers. In some officers. In some lay people. And when I do, I seldom say it but I always think it, “Lighten up a little. Have you forgotten the admonition to make a joyful noise unto the Lord?
I’m in good company as I always remind myself that it was the Apostle Paul himself who said, “Rejoice, and again I say, rejoice.” And since we Christians pay a great deal of attention to what Paul has to say on other matters I figure we shouldn’t exclude his comments on daily delight.
Even our Jesus said, “Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
Nowhere in the Bible does it say, “Blessed are they who frown and fuss.” Nowhere does it say that it is necessary to mentally flagellate yourself until your spiritual bones ache and you have a love affair with misery.
I truly believe that Christ dances with joy when a prodigal come flying home. I take to heart his promise, “Come unto me and I will give you peace.”
I wouldn’t mind finding my name written on a Reader’s Digest Sweepstakes but I love it when I read in the book of Luke, “Rejoice because your name(s) are(is) written in heaven.”
You know, if I were not a Christian and I met some Christians, I am not sure I would choose to be one, because they have forgotten what the star surrounded angels sang on Jesus birth night, “I bring you good news of great joy.” They certainly didn’t sing, “We bring you terrible news and constant complaints that will make your bed a bed of sorrow.”
Finding and keeping a sense of humor isn’t always easy.
There are bosses who indeed seem to have come straight from hell. And people curse at us on the highway.
And everyone has down days when they’re tired of livin’ and scared of dyin’ but I’ve always believed that if I stared at a star and let it give me its message I’d be well on my way toward being a good humor man.
What message?
All around it is darkness but it never notices. It’s too busy making light.
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Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled HOW TO HANDLE GRIEF RATHER THAN LETTING IT HANDLE YOU
“…prod yourself with the warmth of otherness; make friends and forgive enemies while forgiving what you should never have let yourself be bothered by in the first place. Print the word FORGIVE across all the avenues of your mind. Anger and grief are a deadly mixture.
Watch a funny movie. Read a funny book. Laugh at a funny cartoon. It is a prescription from the book of Proverbs, “The cheerful heart is good medicine.” (Proverbs 17:22)
A series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 WEEK SERIES/EACH SUNDAY)
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A QUOTE FROM THE PRAYER SERIES on Wyrick’s Writings
“When you prayed, first did you listen? Some people take the scripture that reads “Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth” and rewrite it to read, “Listen Lord, thy servant speaketh.” (1 Samuel 3:10)
Could what you prayed for be considered a Christian prayer? Remember …if you end your prayer with the words “In Jesus name” you certainly want to have prayed a prayer he would approve.
Was it a prayer you really wanted to be answered, something you really wanted to take place, an improvement in your person you were really committed to following through on. A half hearted prayer is a wasted opportunity.”
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
BE AN EXTRAORDINARY PERSON
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“Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it” (anonyhmous)
Would you cut off your supply of jealousy? Then love…love the idea that someone else has a blessing you don’t or a talent you don’t. Thank God that you can say such a prayer of thanks and then say it. Be an extraordinary person for there are not that many of them and it might as well be you.
“Be humble or stumble” said Dwight L. Moody.
And I got to thinking that It is not love that is blind but jealousy.
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROW’S (Saturday) One A Day blog entitled LIGHTEN UP, REJOICE AND BE GLAD
Finding and keeping a sense of humor isn’t always easy.
There are bosses who indeed seem to have come straight from hell.
And people curse at us on the highway.
And everyone has down days when they’re tired of livin’ and scared of dyin’ but I’ve always believed that if I stared at a star and let it give me its message I’d be well on my way toward being a good humor man.
What message?
All around it is darkness but it never notices. It’s too busy making light.
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series)
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (on Wyrick’s Writings”
and is added to each Sunday
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as fact what was obviously a lie.
We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
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“Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it” (anonyhmous)
Would you cut off your supply of jealousy? Then love…love the idea that someone else has a blessing you don’t or a talent you don’t. Thank God that you can say such a prayer of thanks and then say it. Be an extraordinary person for there are not that many of them and it might as well be you.
“Be humble or stumble” said Dwight L. Moody.
And I got to thinking that It is not love that is blind but jealousy.
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QUOTE FROM TOMORROW’S (Saturday) One A Day blog entitled LIGHTEN UP, REJOICE AND BE GLAD
Finding and keeping a sense of humor isn’t always easy.
There are bosses who indeed seem to have come straight from hell.
And people curse at us on the highway.
And everyone has down days when they’re tired of livin’ and scared of dyin’ but I’ve always believed that if I stared at a star and let it give me its message I’d be well on my way toward being a good humor man.
What message?
All around it is darkness but it never notices. It’s too busy making light.
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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)
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series)
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (on Wyrick’s Writings”
and is added to each Sunday
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as fact what was obviously a lie.
We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
A LIFE WORTH LIVING
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The boy had been swept out to sea and would have drowned except that the man had swum out to save him.
Afterwards, the boy said to the man, “Thank you for saving my life.”
To which the man replied, “Just be sure it was worth saving.”
Some may call the response calloused or poorly put…but isn’t that what life is all about. The part we play in this great stage drama, good, bad or indifferent. Kindly or cruel. Selfish or unselfish and the list goes on.
And does not the gift of life cry out for us to say “thank you by” not just in words but how we live, and by how we contribute to making this world a better place?
Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
— Phillipians 2:14-15
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series)
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (on Wyrick’s Writings”
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as
fact what was obviously a lie.
We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
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The boy had been swept out to sea and would have drowned except that the man had swum out to save him.
Afterwards, the boy said to the man, “Thank you for saving my life.”
To which the man replied, “Just be sure it was worth saving.”
Some may call the response calloused or poorly put…but isn’t that what life is all about. The part we play in this great stage drama, good, bad or indifferent. Kindly or cruel. Selfish or unselfish and the list goes on.
And does not the gift of life cry out for us to say “thank you by” not just in words but how we live, and by how we contribute to making this world a better place?
Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
— Phillipians 2:14-15
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series)
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (on Wyrick’s Writings”
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as
fact what was obviously a lie.
We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
THANK YOU FOR SAVING MY LIFE
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When people think of the word loyalty and trust do they think of you?
Are you loyal to your boss and the responsibilities he has given you and are you more so just after he has given you a bonus?
“I’m not related to him so what’s with this loyalty bit?” Yes, what is it with this loyalty bit?
Are you loyal to your family, your church, your friends? In that order? Or in what order?
How many are you a friend to and are you a fair weather friend?
“Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same.” Matthew 26:35
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Below is a Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled A LIFE WORTH LIVING
“The boy had been swept out to sea and would have drowned except that the man had swum out to save him.
Afterwards, the boy said to the man, “Thank you for saving my life.”
To which the man replied, “Just be sure it was worth saving.”
BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series)
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (on Wyrick’s Writings”
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as
fact what was obviously a lie. We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
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When people think of the word loyalty and trust do they think of you?
Are you loyal to your boss and the responsibilities he has given you and are you more so just after he has given you a bonus?
“I’m not related to him so what’s with this loyalty bit?” Yes, what is it with this loyalty bit?
Are you loyal to your family, your church, your friends? In that order? Or in what order?
How many are you a friend to and are you a fair weather friend?
“Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same.” Matthew 26:35
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Below is a Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled A LIFE WORTH LIVING
“The boy had been swept out to sea and would have drowned except that the man had swum out to save him.
Afterwards, the boy said to the man, “Thank you for saving my life.”
To which the man replied, “Just be sure it was worth saving.”
BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series)
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (on Wyrick’s Writings”
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as
fact what was obviously a lie. We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
A TOUCH OF THE DIVINE
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If someone has hurt you and then they come to you and say, “Forgive me” what is your response? If you decide to forgive them, you have three options.
Is it, “No problem,” brushing it off as if it were of no consequence.
Or, a more active response, “I accept your forgiveness.”
Or, do you forgive through gritted teeth?
And it does make a difference.
Because, I think that when we spell out our acceptance rather than just allude to it, we are admitting that we too are flawed and have failed sometimes; have hurt another human being.
And at that moment, we are practicing a kind of brotherhood or sisterhood.
Admitting that as humans, we all have to participate in the great adventure of giving forgiveness and accepting it.
Otherwise, if we simply say “No problem” our forgiveness is more like a moral tip than a moral investment.
And if you have chosen the third option… well, this is what so many philosophers and theologians have been trying to teach us, “Anyone who is COMMITTED TO THE FUTURE has to begin the work of MOVING BEYOND THE PAST.” (anonymous)
Begrudgingly forgiving is certainly not the answer.
“I accept your forgiveness” and at that moment we understand for the first time, or once again, those words, “To err is human, to forgive is Divine.”
Mark 11:25
And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.
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Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled THANK YOU FOR SAVING MY LIFE
“Thank you for saving my life.”
To which the man replied, “Just be sure it was worth saving.”
BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series)
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (on Wyrick’s Writings”
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as
fact what was obviously a lie. We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
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If someone has hurt you and then they come to you and say, “Forgive me” what is your response? If you decide to forgive them, you have three options.
Is it, “No problem,” brushing it off as if it were of no consequence.
Or, a more active response, “I accept your forgiveness.”
Or, do you forgive through gritted teeth?
And it does make a difference.
Because, I think that when we spell out our acceptance rather than just allude to it, we are admitting that we too are flawed and have failed sometimes; have hurt another human being.
And at that moment, we are practicing a kind of brotherhood or sisterhood.
Admitting that as humans, we all have to participate in the great adventure of giving forgiveness and accepting it.
Otherwise, if we simply say “No problem” our forgiveness is more like a moral tip than a moral investment.
And if you have chosen the third option… well, this is what so many philosophers and theologians have been trying to teach us, “Anyone who is COMMITTED TO THE FUTURE has to begin the work of MOVING BEYOND THE PAST.” (anonymous)
Begrudgingly forgiving is certainly not the answer.
“I accept your forgiveness” and at that moment we understand for the first time, or once again, those words, “To err is human, to forgive is Divine.”
Mark 11:25
And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.
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Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled THANK YOU FOR SAVING MY LIFE
“Thank you for saving my life.”
To which the man replied, “Just be sure it was worth saving.”
BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series)
It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (on Wyrick’s Writings”
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as
fact what was obviously a lie. We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.
But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
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Monday, January 17, 2011
HE WAS IN LOVE AND SO…
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Kurtis, the stock boy, was in love.
He was 22 and she was 26 but he didn’t care. He was in love.
He first saw her at checkout register number 4.
He first learned her name by waiting at the punch card clock and then checking her card after she had left.
Her name was Brenda and he was in love.
The next day he waited outside and as she came out he introduced himself and offered her a ride home.
He looked harmless enough and had a nice smile and was a fellow employee so she accepted.
He then asked if he could see her again and she replied that it was impossible.
“Why?” he asked…he was in love and he was persistent and so he asked “Why?”
She explained she had two children and she couldn’t afford a baby sitter.
He offered to pay for the baby sitter.
She seemed unsure as to whether she was making the right decision but she said “Yes.”
Kurtis, the stock boy was happier than he had ever been. But more about Kurtis later.
Saturday night when he knocked on the door she opened it and said, “I’m afraid I can’t go. The baby sitter called and canceled.”
“So” said Kurtis, “We’ll just take the kids.”
So she invited him in and he met one of her two children.
She was cute as a bug in a rug.
Then he met her son who was confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed and with down syndrome.
“I still don’t see why the kids can’t come with us,” he said as if it was the most logical thing in the world.
And she thought of her husband who had deserted her when the going got rough…and all those who were not interested in a woman with two children…one disabled…
And right there on that first night, Kurtis the stock boy, treated the kids as if they were his.
When he needed to go to the rest room…Kurtis just picked him up and carried him there.
And Brenda knew this was the man she wanted to marry…this man who seemed more concerned with making her happy than himself…to whom doing the right thing because it was the right thing seemed so perfectly normal…Kurtis the stock boy.
A year later they were married..
And Kurtis adopted the two kids and today they have two more of their own.
And, oh yes, if you are a football fan you know of Kurtis…because his last name is Warner…Kurt Warner, former outstanding quarterback in the National Football league.
For love to work…it must be more than a word…it must be an unselfish part of one’s character…it is not singing like that Opera singer “Me,Me, Me” but “You, You, You.”
True love is more concerned with giving than getting and the truth is so obvious it is missed by millions.
It is an old cliché’ but it is too good not to quote again (and forgive me for a slight rewrite), “Unselfish love doesn’t just make the world go round…it makes the ride worthwhile.”
Unselfish love lifts kindness to a new level. It is a strength that can move mountains and I think perhaps make the angels in heaven sing a special heavenly song.
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music,
And, on yes, it is very important in a good marriage to have unselfish love as part of your nuture and nature…but it is also very important in a good life to have unselfish love as part of your nuture and nature.
1 Corinthians 13:4–8a
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails
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Quote below from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled LIGHTEN UP, REJOICE AND BE GLAD
“Nowhere in the Bible does it say, “Blessed are they who frown and fuss.” Nowhere does it say that it is necessary to mentally flagellate yourself until your spiritual bones ache and you have a love affair with misery.
I truly believe that Christ dances with joy when a prodigal come flying home. I take to heart his promise, “Come unto me and I will give you peace.” I wouldn’t mind finding my name written on a Reader’s Digest Sweepstakes but I love it when I read in the book of Luke, “Rejoice because your name(s) are(is) written in heaven.”
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A series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 WEEK SERIES/EACH SUNDAY)
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A QUOTE FROM THE PRAYER SERIES
“When you prayed, first did you listen? Some people take the scripture that reads “Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth” and rewrite it to read, “Listen Lord, thy servant speaketh.” (1 Samuel 3:10)
Could what you prayed for be considered a Christian prayer? Remember …if you end your prayer with the words “In Jesus name” you certainly want to have prayed a prayer he would approve.
Was it a prayer you really wanted to be answered, something you really wanted to take place, an improvement in your person you were really committed to following through on. A half hearted prayer is a wasted opportunity.”
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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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Kurtis, the stock boy, was in love.
He was 22 and she was 26 but he didn’t care. He was in love.
He first saw her at checkout register number 4.
He first learned her name by waiting at the punch card clock and then checking her card after she had left.
Her name was Brenda and he was in love.
The next day he waited outside and as she came out he introduced himself and offered her a ride home.
He looked harmless enough and had a nice smile and was a fellow employee so she accepted.
He then asked if he could see her again and she replied that it was impossible.
“Why?” he asked…he was in love and he was persistent and so he asked “Why?”
She explained she had two children and she couldn’t afford a baby sitter.
He offered to pay for the baby sitter.
She seemed unsure as to whether she was making the right decision but she said “Yes.”
Kurtis, the stock boy was happier than he had ever been. But more about Kurtis later.
Saturday night when he knocked on the door she opened it and said, “I’m afraid I can’t go. The baby sitter called and canceled.”
“So” said Kurtis, “We’ll just take the kids.”
So she invited him in and he met one of her two children.
She was cute as a bug in a rug.
Then he met her son who was confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed and with down syndrome.
“I still don’t see why the kids can’t come with us,” he said as if it was the most logical thing in the world.
And she thought of her husband who had deserted her when the going got rough…and all those who were not interested in a woman with two children…one disabled…
And right there on that first night, Kurtis the stock boy, treated the kids as if they were his.
When he needed to go to the rest room…Kurtis just picked him up and carried him there.
And Brenda knew this was the man she wanted to marry…this man who seemed more concerned with making her happy than himself…to whom doing the right thing because it was the right thing seemed so perfectly normal…Kurtis the stock boy.
A year later they were married..
And Kurtis adopted the two kids and today they have two more of their own.
And, oh yes, if you are a football fan you know of Kurtis…because his last name is Warner…Kurt Warner, former outstanding quarterback in the National Football league.
For love to work…it must be more than a word…it must be an unselfish part of one’s character…it is not singing like that Opera singer “Me,Me, Me” but “You, You, You.”
True love is more concerned with giving than getting and the truth is so obvious it is missed by millions.
It is an old cliché’ but it is too good not to quote again (and forgive me for a slight rewrite), “Unselfish love doesn’t just make the world go round…it makes the ride worthwhile.”
Unselfish love lifts kindness to a new level. It is a strength that can move mountains and I think perhaps make the angels in heaven sing a special heavenly song.
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music,
And, on yes, it is very important in a good marriage to have unselfish love as part of your nuture and nature…but it is also very important in a good life to have unselfish love as part of your nuture and nature.
1 Corinthians 13:4–8a
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails
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Quote below from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled LIGHTEN UP, REJOICE AND BE GLAD
“Nowhere in the Bible does it say, “Blessed are they who frown and fuss.” Nowhere does it say that it is necessary to mentally flagellate yourself until your spiritual bones ache and you have a love affair with misery.
I truly believe that Christ dances with joy when a prodigal come flying home. I take to heart his promise, “Come unto me and I will give you peace.” I wouldn’t mind finding my name written on a Reader’s Digest Sweepstakes but I love it when I read in the book of Luke, “Rejoice because your name(s) are(is) written in heaven.”
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A series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 WEEK SERIES/EACH SUNDAY)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below TO ACCESS WYRICK’S WRITINGS
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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http://www.speakerneil.com/
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A QUOTE FROM THE PRAYER SERIES
“When you prayed, first did you listen? Some people take the scripture that reads “Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth” and rewrite it to read, “Listen Lord, thy servant speaketh.” (1 Samuel 3:10)
Could what you prayed for be considered a Christian prayer? Remember …if you end your prayer with the words “In Jesus name” you certainly want to have prayed a prayer he would approve.
Was it a prayer you really wanted to be answered, something you really wanted to take place, an improvement in your person you were really committed to following through on. A half hearted prayer is a wasted opportunity.”
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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
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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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Sunday, January 16, 2011
WHAT IS COURAGE?
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It is an old tale often told but perhaps you have not heard of it, the story of the man who was bragging about how he had cut off the tail of a man eating lion with his pocket knife but neglected to say that someone before him had cut off the lion’s head.
WHAT IS COURAGE?
The University was conducting a test. 10 University students were placed in a room and on a board in front of them were lines of varying length.
They were told to raise their hands when the instructor pointed to the longest line.
But nine of the students had been instructed ahead of time to raise their hand when the instructor pointed to the second longest line.
One student had not been told.
Then when the instructor pointed to the second longest line the nine students who had been pre-instructed raised their hands.
The un-instructed student did not at first raise his hand…that is until he looked around and saw that everyone else had raised their hands.
He knew they were wrong but three out of four times with a number of different groups the un-instructed student would eventually raise his hand too.
WHAT IS COURAGE?
John Wesley said, “Give me a hundred men who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I will shake the world. I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; and such alone will overthrow the kingdom of Satan and build up the Kingdom of God on earth.”
Isaiah 41:10
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
I have always believed that courage is doing what you are afraid of…otherwise you are not being courageous.
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A series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 WEEK SERIES/EACH SUNDAY)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below TO ACCESS WYRICK’S WRITINGS
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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A QUOTE FROM THE PRAYER SERIES
“When you prayed, first did you listen? Some people take the scripture that reads “Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth” and rewrite it to read, “Listen Lord, thy servant speaketh.” (1 Samuel 3:10)
Could what you prayed for be considered a Christian prayer? Remember …if you end your prayer with the words “In Jesus name” you certainly want to have prayed a prayer he would approve.
Was it a prayer you really wanted to be answered, something you really wanted to take place, an improvement in your person you were really committed to following through on. A half hearted prayer is a wasted opportunity.”
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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
***************************************
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)
***************************************
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.
***********************************
It is an old tale often told but perhaps you have not heard of it, the story of the man who was bragging about how he had cut off the tail of a man eating lion with his pocket knife but neglected to say that someone before him had cut off the lion’s head.
WHAT IS COURAGE?
The University was conducting a test. 10 University students were placed in a room and on a board in front of them were lines of varying length.
They were told to raise their hands when the instructor pointed to the longest line.
But nine of the students had been instructed ahead of time to raise their hand when the instructor pointed to the second longest line.
One student had not been told.
Then when the instructor pointed to the second longest line the nine students who had been pre-instructed raised their hands.
The un-instructed student did not at first raise his hand…that is until he looked around and saw that everyone else had raised their hands.
He knew they were wrong but three out of four times with a number of different groups the un-instructed student would eventually raise his hand too.
WHAT IS COURAGE?
John Wesley said, “Give me a hundred men who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I will shake the world. I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; and such alone will overthrow the kingdom of Satan and build up the Kingdom of God on earth.”
Isaiah 41:10
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
I have always believed that courage is doing what you are afraid of…otherwise you are not being courageous.
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A series on PRAYER began on WYRICK’S WRITINGS ON Sunday Nov 21st (4 WEEK SERIES/EACH SUNDAY)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below TO ACCESS WYRICK’S WRITINGS
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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A QUOTE FROM THE PRAYER SERIES
“When you prayed, first did you listen? Some people take the scripture that reads “Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth” and rewrite it to read, “Listen Lord, thy servant speaketh.” (1 Samuel 3:10)
Could what you prayed for be considered a Christian prayer? Remember …if you end your prayer with the words “In Jesus name” you certainly want to have prayed a prayer he would approve.
Was it a prayer you really wanted to be answered, something you really wanted to take place, an improvement in your person you were really committed to following through on. A half hearted prayer is a wasted opportunity.”
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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
***************************************
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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