A JOURNEY THROUGH GRIEF (2nd IN SERIES)

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Helen Keller was deaf, dumb and blind, but she didn’t sit alone in her dark, dumb, dingy silence and feel sorry for herself. Did not burden herself by grieving for a life that might have been. Rather she got up every morning and went out.


Went out where the birds were singing, and people were talking and the world was living. Went out to pour the sweet perfume of noble thoughts on others and feel some of it splashing back upon herself.

She wasn’t born with this wonderful attitude. In her youth she would literally flail at her family and teachers, making loud almost animal like sounds of frustration.

 
She was daily angry and allowed herself to be filled with despair. Then one day, she must have realized there is more than one kind of blindness.


That there is physical blindness that cannot see light, and spiritual emotional blindness that will not search for light. And so she decided to make the most of life and not the least, to look for the best and not the worst.

She decided not to daily grieve over her misfortune, but instead deal with it with a multitude of positive actions minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day until she had lived out a lifetime of service.
More than once I have placed my hand on a shoulder and said, “Weep…cry…. Slowly siphon it out of your system. Then turn and begin to walk away from your wounding. Otherwise, you but nurture a ghost that will haunt you the rest of your days.”

He sat before me – a forty-year-old who looked sixty. He began to share, “I’ve been downsized. I was a top salesman and now I can’t sell a dollar bill for 50 cents. I’ve never been so miserable in my whole life.”


And as we talked, I found out his father had died when he was only seven. I learned how a loving mother had shielded him the rest of his childhood and adolescent years from all pain and hardship. He told me how he had never been allowed to play any violent sport - “Mother was afraid I’d get hurt.”

And as we talked he began to understand why he was filled with such grief and self-pity. He began to realize he had spent a lifetime expecting to be cared for.

By his mother, by his family and later by his business, and even to being taken care of totally, completely by his God, without ever doing anything very much to help himself.
Before he left my office we read together a passage from the Bible, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

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Serialization of another book SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDINGThis 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)
“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 the SERIES on this Wyrick’s Writings site entitled ANGER IS A KILLER.
“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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