THE DESTINY OF LITTLE THINGS

             If you had not been born the world would not be the same.  It would be better or it would be worse, but not be the same.  In short, you have a destiny – but what kind?

            True, the destinies of some seem bigger than others.  Some fly around in outer space, or build great bridges or write great books or head great nations.  Others don’t even get their names in the newspaper, until they are listed in the obituary column.

            But how big is big?  And is bigger necessarily better?  Emerson once wrote, “The hero is no braver than an ordinary man.  He is just brave for five minute longer.”

            Saints are often not that much better than the ordinary individual, they are just better a little longer and a little more often.  One minute at a time, until that minute become an hour, and that hour becomes a day, and that day becomes a lifetime.

            Challenge yourself to be braver, better, wiser, more kind and compassionate - for just one extra minute a day.  Not all day.  Not from morn till night.  Just one minute more.  Then two minutes more and perhaps work up to three.  The power, the overwhelming power, of little things.

            Many argue, “If I can’t make big changes, I will make no changes at all.  If I cannot become perfect, I won’t even try to improve.”  And so, denying the destiny of little things, they become captive of the destiny of nothing.  (No thing.)

            One cynical philosopher musing on the matter wrote, “The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic and a terrible waste of time.” 

But he missed the point.  Because we do not achieve perfection does not mean we should not pursue excellence.

What must you do to have weeds in your yard?  Nothing.

      What must you do to have a house go to wreck and ruin?  Nothing.

What must you do to let a life go to wreck and ruin?  Nothing.

But, little by little the weeds can be removed.  Little by little a house can be renovated.  Little by little a life can be put back together again.  Little by little by little some people begin to understand the destiny of little things.

It is what being human is all about. The constant changing and re-arranging of who we are.  A little more listening to the conscience than talking back to the conscience.

     THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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During the days of his youth, this gentle giant did dally with Deism, but it must also be remembered that with passing years, spiritual wisdom took over. 

An ongoing controversy argues, he was not a Christian because he was never baptized or joined a church.  It seems only fair to let his own words defend him against any who would doubt his faith. 

In 1846, with typical honesty he said what was and what wasn’t.   “That I am not a member of any Christian church is true, but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular…”

It was not that he did not believe in Christ.  He said he would gladly join any church that would not overwhelm him with dogma.  So, it was not a cry against Christianity, but a cry against Christians who, with determined zeal, had split up into over three hundred recognized denominations.

Though six foot four and weighing one hundred eighty-four pounds, Abraham Lincoln was never too big for his long-legged britches. 

He was not overly impressed with himself, always impressed by the works of the Almighty.

 In his growing up he knew little of the thin two hundred square mile strip of civilization hugging the eastern coast.  He would, of course, live and die there one day, this man who would travel so far from the wilderness to Washington.

Would travel, but never alone, for his was a soul attuned to heaven.

P.S.  He was readying to join the church on the immediate Sunday after he was assassinated.  

 

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 Paul Harvey quoted it on his radio program...it has been quotes in thousands of sermons...it is a prayer that should be read and shared by everyone.

Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil good," but that’s exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values. We confess that:
We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it pluralism.
We have worshipped other gods and called it multi-culturalism.
We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle.
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn and called it a choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem.
We have abused power and called it political savvy.
We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition.
We have polluted the air...with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression; We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, O God, and know our hearts today; try us and see if there be some wicked way in us; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of this state and who have been ordained by You, to govern this great state of Kansas. Grant them your wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the center of Your Will.

I ask in in the name of your Son, The Living Savior, Jesus Christ

 

               THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN

                         “A book superior in style and content)

A  Quote FROM Rev. Wyrick’s 9^TH BOOK “THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN”

 

During the days of his youth, this gentle giant did dally with Deism, but it must also be remembered that with passing years, spiritual wisdom took over. 

An ongoing controversy argues, he was not a Christian because he was never baptized or joined a church.  It seems only fair to let his own words defend him against any who would doubt his faith. 

In 1846, with typical honesty he said what was and what wasn’t.   “That I am not a member of any Christian church is true, but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular…”

It was not that he did not believe in Christ.  He said he would gladly join any church that would not overwhelm him with dogma.  So, it was not a cry against Christianity, but a cry against Christians who, with determined zeal, had split up into over three hundred recognized denominations.

Though six foot four and weighing one hundred eighty-four pounds, Abraham Lincoln was never too big for his long-legged britches. 

He was not overly impressed with himself, always impressed by the works of the Almighty.

 In his growing up he knew little of the thin two hundred square mile strip of civilization hugging the eastern coast.  He would, of course, live and die there one day, this man who would travel so far from the wilderness to Washington.

Would travel, but never alone, for his was a soul attuned to heaven.

P.S.  He was readying to join the church on the immediate Sunday after he was assassinated.  

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As you woke up this morning and began to make the choices that would shape your day, did you choose the following thoughts, “Oh, what a beautiful morning, God’s morning. 

And, oh how I am going to enjoy my breakfast, and my Sunday paper, and later on, worshiping with my fellow Christians.  And this afternoon, I’ll go for a walk or sit on the back porch and listen to the birds sing, and…”

Or did you have a different set of thoughts that would shape your day?  “I feel miserable and when I finish reading the newspaper I will feel even worse.  Later on that guy at work will drive me crazy like he always does. 

And I would take a walk except for all those crazy dogs who do nothing but bark at me and scare me to death, and…”

Some people spend their time running from job to job, friend to friend, church to church and community to community looking for the proverbial rainbow… with a pick axe - picking and axing their complaining way toward their own private disaster area. 

And to what purpose?

It will date you, of course, but do you remember the cartoonist Al Capp and his cartoon strip Li’l Abner?  Remember the character named Joe Pssst who carried around his own little rain cloud wherever he went?  Unfortunately, as the clock goes tick, tick, tick too many folk wake up each day with their their own little rain cloud – their soul full of doubts, their heart full of hate and their mind full of gripes. 

The Shakespeare syndrome I call it.  Remember Hamlet?  He must have been a jolly companion to have around all day since the best description of life he could come up with was that it was, “stale, flat and unprofitable.”

Do you remember, when you still quite young, how you learned that by focusing the rays of the sun through a magnifying glass you could burn a hole through a leaf, or etch your initials on the side of a tree?  Well, that is why it is so important to meet God in the morning and carry Him with you through the day.  It is a holy habit that can help you to bring all your scattered ethics into focus, to pinpoint your decisions with heavenly meaning, and give proper direction to your deeds.  In short, pray “God, help me” at breakfast so you will be able to pray “God, thank you,” at dinner.

 

Several decades ago, a scientific survey at the University of Wisconsin revealed that professors who had been teaching for 20 years were no better than some teaching only two or three years.  But those who, every few years returned to college for refresher courses and to study new techniques, improved.  Those who didn’t just stagnated.  That’s why it is so important to put God on your calendar and keep Him there.  Even a man or woman “born again” needs a daily rebirth, a daily re-evaluation of habits, a daily upgrading, a daily analysis of yesterday’s happenings. We can change for the better but not if we keep tripping over the same old errors.  Let me say that again - We can change for the better but not if we keep tripping over the same old errors.

               THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN

"A book superior in style and content"

                         

A  Quote FROM Rev. Wyrick’s 9^TH BOOK “THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN”

Into this fray, a political Lincoln, a military Lincoln and a spiritual Lincoln moved toward monumental decisions.  Struggling for truth, sometimes befuddled by reality, this man who knew his Bible as well as some preachers would often be asked if he thought God was on the side of the North. 

His reply always remained the same. “My concern is not whether God is on our side.  My great concern is to be on God’s side.”⁹ It would be difficult to place too much emphasis on the spiritual undergirdings he brought to every decision. 

This child of the wilderness had had no city lights to mute the stars or compete with moonlight.  He had watched his own growing, side by side with all the other growing things in field and forest.  It seemed natural to him to ponder that human life must be more of mind, and soul a reality. 

 

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Author, David Dunn, once wrote, “Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting…but in this humdrum world there is altogether too much grubbing and too little giving.

 I recommend giving as an exciting and thoroughly satisfying hobby.  Fortunately each of us has a different assortment of gifts - some of us have spare time; others have surplus mental or physical energy; others have a special art, skill or talent; still others have ideas, imagination, the ability to organize, the gift of leadership.  (But) all of us can give appreciation, kindness, interest, loyalty, understanding, encouragement, tolerance – and a score of other little portions of ourselves.”

 

Or as Ralph Waldo Emerson mused, “Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts.  The only gift is a portion of thyself.”

A former President of the Menninger Foundation once said, “If each of us can be helped by science to live a hundred years, what will it profit us if our hates and fears, our loneliness and remorse, will not permit us to enjoy them?”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning in “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” thoughtfully protested, “What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.”  It is a treachery to the soul to forget that “Man does not live by bread alone,” but rather by putting his ear to the voice of God.

Do you remember, when you still quite young, how you learned that by focusing the rays of the sun through a magnifying glass you could burn a hole through a leaf, or etch your initials on the side of a tree? 

Well, that is why it is so important to meet God in the morning and carry Him with you through the day.  It is a holy habit that can help you to bring all your scattered ethics into focus, to pinpoint your decisions with heavenly meaning, and give proper direction to your deeds.  In short, pray “God, help me” at breakfast so you will be able to pray “God, thank you,” at dinner.

 

THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN 

                           

    “A book superior in style and content)

A  Quote FROM Rev. Wyrick’s 9^TH BOOK “THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN”

Into this fray, a political Lincoln, a military Lincoln and a spiritual Lincoln moved toward monumental decisions.  Struggling for truth, sometimes befuddled by reality, this man who knew his Bible as well as some preachers would often be asked if he thought God was on the side of the North. 

His reply always remained the same. “My concern is not whether God is on our side.  My great concern is to be on God’s side.”⁹ It would be difficult to place too much emphasis on the spiritual undergirdings he brought to every decision. 

This child of the wilderness had had no city lights to mute the stars or compete with moonlight.  He had watched his own growing, side by side with all the other growing things in field and forest.  It seemed natural to him to ponder that human life must be more of mind, and soul a reality. 

 

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SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING

(Serialization of One of Neil’s book that can be found on his other blog Wyrick’s Writings)

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.

----- ------ ---------- A 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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Indeed, at any gathering, folk would more often than not share what they considered medical tidbits: steal a dishrag - kill a wart, skip a row when you plant and there’ll be a death in the family or if a horse breathes on your child it’ll get whooping cough. 

As late as 1859, if a doctor-to-be attended medical school at all, he had covered the entire store of existing medical lore in one year.

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