RUST ON MY SOUL (58th in series)

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The Serialization of RUST ON MY SOUL is added to each WEEK.

 

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RUST ON MY SOUL (A Novel) (Published by Bridge Press in 1985 & Distributed Internationally) 

 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.

Morning

Nancy has born a cross around her neck for years, but that’s not the same as standing at the foot of the cross.  However for years I’ve been traveling to cities far and wide while ignoring the trip to Golgotha, no more than a soul-beat away.  In time she’ll join me.  Or maybe not.  There are no guarantees where human freedom lives.  There aren’t ten easy ways to produce Christians, or twenty, or thirty  There is only time and acceptance.

Don’t worry, Nancy, I won’t drag the cross down to breakfast every morning. I won’t run around speaking in tongues at the country club.  I’ll respect your spiritual halfway house.  I’ll pray though Nancy, and not be ashamed of where or when. I won’t dominate every conversation among ourselves or with friends with Jesus talk, but neither will I pass an opportunity by to plant a seed.

Evening 

“This little light of mine, let it shine.  Let it shine.”

How many years ago around a campfire, did I and my friends sing this promise?  It skips along through my mind often these days.

“Tom, what’s happening to you?”  Few actually ask, but I see the questions in the eyes of old friends.  And more and more I share, “I’m not alone anymore.  I don’t feel that vast emptiness that once I did.  Jesus has always been alive and well.  It’s just that now I’m alive and well.  It’s just that now I’m alive and well because I’ve accepted Him.”

Through your love, Christ, I am forced to a new awareness. I can no longer practice compassion just through automatic deductions for the United Fund or welfare through Washington.  I am so entangled in a web of love that ai must take some of that with me to spread around.

To be continued 

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ALREADY STARTED 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 OF THE SUGGESTIONS IN THIS BOOK ARE GOOD FOR IMPROVING ONE’S LIFE AT 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.

 

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.”

To access his other book’s; BOUNDARIES UNLIMITED, RUST ON MY SOUL, POOR RICHARD’S ALMANAC, I AM SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING, THE ABC’S OF PARENTING AND GRANDPARENTING, LETTERS TO AMERICA…go to Amazon.com (books) and type in Neil Wyrick.

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Below is a quote from 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” …(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 A SERIES “Depression…the Alien Within”  on this Wyrick’s Writings …each week

”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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