A JOURNEY THROUGH GRIEF (3rd IN SERIES)

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CONQUER LIFE OR BE CONQUERED BY IT.

Thomas Caryle suggests that the ultimate question every person must ask of himself is, “Will I be a hero or a coward?”

For you, was yesterday a blessing? Good - be thankful!

Was yesterday a disaster?

How unfortunate, but learn from it.

What will next week bring? Next month? How well will you handle what life puts on your plate?

The answer lies in how well you are handling your present moments of pain, or crisis, or just plain irritations.

You are setting up a habit and, as I have often said, we are creatures of habit.

There is a thin line between those who have conquered life or been conquered by it.

Each additional year of living does not necessarily bring maturity, sainthood and sweetness or spiritual wisdom. Strength is not an automatic.

What then to do?

Believe God chose your day of birth and knows your day of death.

These are two very important decisions that are His and His alone.

And accepting this knowledge is a good place to start in the battle for stability.

Second – get a good physical each year, and learn what can make your health better. If you are sick, honestly look for the reason why.

But, then if the only answer you can find is that you must endure, pray for the strength to endure.

Third – take a good spiritual inventory.

Consider how often you pray and the strength of your prayers.

Do you speak with God only if you have problems? Or do you share your happiness with Him, also?

What do you believe? What do you doubt?

And be honest with your answers. Then ask yourself, “What do I feed my soul?” Does your diet of habits and concerns make it sick or well, or loitering with lukewarmness.

Fourth – get a good purpose in life. One you could be proud to have reported on the streets of heaven. One you know will have God’s sanction.

Have your ever said, “I’ve had it up to here!”? Learn to say it more often, but not because you are filled with disgust, rather because you have allowed yourself to be filled up to here with God.

Fifth – believe that when one door slams shut it does not mean all doors are in this condition.

Indeed, with a little prayer here and a little push there, closed doors can be opened, and strength can come out of pain and sorrow.

And the worst can sometimes turn out to be the best.

Some clouds really do have not just one silver lining, but two or three.

Sixth – make friends and forgive enemies and forgive friends and forgive the unforgivable and forgive 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.

Seventh – 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)

“But my problem isn’t something that just happened – it’s something that happens a little more each day,” complained one of my friends. “I’m getting old.”

Another laughed and replied, “Never fear old age. The sugar of life is at the bottom of the cup.”

This mature friend, who was then approaching eighty, does not daily grieve at the foot of a calendar nor shudder at the sound of a clock. He knows that to do so will only make him permanently unhappy.
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STARTED SUNDAY MARCH 5, 2011. Serialization of another book SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING

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

MANY SUGGESTIONS IN THIS BOOK FOR IMPROVING THE ART OF LIVING ARE GOOD FOR ANY AGE.

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

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

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

V. Neil Wyrick


Below a quote from it…

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

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

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A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on this WyrIck’s Writing blog)

It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010

“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.
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VISIT NEXT TUESDAY FOR A NEW ADDITION TO THE “Rust on My Soul” SERIES (The Internationally distributed novel)

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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM the SERIES on this Wyrick’s Writings site entitled ANGER IS A KILLER. It began Thursday January 6, 2010.

“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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