RUST ON MY SOUL (49th in series)

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The Serialization of RUST ON MY SOUL is added to each TUESDAY Go back to April 13 2010 and start the Series.
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RUST ON MY SOUL (A Novel) (Published by Bridge Press in 1985 & Distributed Internationally) (A new Series that began on Tues April 13th and will continue every Tuesday thereafter until finished) (Thursday & Sunday will continue to cover a variety of subjects as in the past)

INTRODUCTION (Repeated for those new to the series)

In an old loose leaf notebook, Thomas Kettering wrote when there was a cry from his heart. He wrote when his inner longing spilled over into the reality of his days. He did not write every day, only when he felt he must. How often he wrote or when is not important. The journey is what counts, for it is a diary about all of us, to all of us. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” and even a stumble is a step.

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Evening

I’m seeing a me I don’t like. Where has my vision been before this. Have I been rewriting any part of me that might bother me until it didn’t bother me anymore.

Faces. That’s what people have always been to me. Noses and mouths and mustaches and tags. I recognize hundreds of people, but I don’t know any of them. They have been receiving that portion of my personality that was required.

I just wrote out a check to the fellow who mows my lawn. For more than three years I've been doing that and I don't even know I if he’s married or has kids or what he does in his spare time. I haven't really cared so I never asked.

The executive who puts his name to a one-hundred-thousand-dollar contract today, I know his wife's name and what his two daughters and one son have achieved. I know that he hates golf and loves handball. There was profit in our association so I cared enough to find out.

Do I have to love everyone?

Right now I would feign and be phony if I tried to show more interest in people.

I've still a price tag on my time and an unwillingness to fritter away the precious moments on just anyone.

But if you, my Jesus, could take time for a little boy with too few fish, and pay tribute to a widow and her mite, and a dirty blind beggar, I do think it means I have to become aware of the people in my world.

It doesn't mean that I have to visit with the winos on skid row or strike up a conversation with everyone I meet on the street, but I do think it means I have to shake more hands rather than just wave from afar.

Will you brighten up the dim light of my concern, Lord?

An I just whistling in the wind or do I have the emotional and spiritual gumption to actually do something about all this?


To be continued next Tuesday

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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)

“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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Below is a quote from Thursday Jan 20th Wyrick’s writings blog entitled ANGER VS. PATIENCE

“After the old man had departed, God called out to Abraham and asked where the stranger was. Abraham replied, “I sent him on his way because he did not worship you.”

God answered “I have suffered him all his eighty years although he dishonors me. Could you not endure for just one night?”

God suffers us, endures us! And forgives us and loves us and sets such a perfect example for us.”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM THE SERIES “A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM” …quoted from Sunday Jan 2 2011
(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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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES “Depression…the Alien Within” on this Wyrick’s Writings …each Thursday

”Sometimes the best thing do, if depression descends on you, is for a little while to try to wipe clean the slate of your worried mind. To give such thoughts some muted silence. Seek an emotional whiteout. Just let the soft breeze of nothingness blow for a while. And then, read John 14:27 and hear Jesus saying, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”


“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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