REMEMBER EACH TUESDAY a continuing addition to my novel “RUST ON MY
SOUL” will be added until the entire novel has appeared. (Published by
Bridge Press, 1985) (Distributed Internationally)
To view my other blog “One A Day, Your Spiritual Vitamins” GO TO GOOGLE AND TYPE IN NEIL WYRICK SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
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Do you hold a grudge for days or weeks or years?
Do you require that everyone in your family dislike everyone you dislike and every thought you espouse and the list is long? Does everyone feel they have to walk on eggshells when they are in your presence? Are you an individual who cannot manage your emotions, and part of the reason is because it is just you by yourself trying to manage them? I’m not suggesting that you should work at being dead in the water emotionally. You want to be able to get excited and dance and sing, but you also don’t want to become permanently hyper and out of control.
Psychiatrists say that anger is the hardest emotion to master. So we need a doctor to tell us that? A few years ago, some people were teaching that we should let it all hang out. It was called “Scream Therapy” - that if you didn’t scream on a regular basis you would perpetually steam. In other words, gain control by losing control. The theory, thank goodness didn’t last.
Certainly there is a better way of doing it, infinitely better than having screaming sessions. It is called “reframing” or “reinterpreting” what has just happened in a more positive light. I’ve been doing this for years, I just didn’t have a name for it. It made sense to me that if someone gave me a hard time, it was because they had just finished having a hard time, or the night before, or were just having a bad day. I figured it was a waste of time and common sense to take it personally.
Now some people really are nasty and mean on a regular basis and they do not like you, along with a host of other people they don’t like. But they are in the minority and if you run across someone like that, pray that you don’t emulate them.
What we are talking about is a personality upgrade. A faith lift might be another way of putting it. Allowing the Lord, who knows and always has known your potential, to let you find it and do something about it.
There is the classic story of the artist Michelangelo pushing a gigantic rock down a cobbled street and being asked by someone why he is going to such extremes and effort. “Because,” answered the great sculptor, “there is an angel inside that rock and I am going to let him out.” Don’t ever underestimate your potential because, my dear friends, there is an angel inside of all of us wanting to be let all the way out.
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or…go the bottom of this article and click on “Tell a Friend.”
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU
CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE.
CLICK ON THE TOP RIGHT SIDE OF THIS SCREEN WHERE IT READS “CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEIL AS WESLEY, LUTHER, FRANKLIN & LINCOLN”…His presentations have been called equal to Hal Holbrook and were presented all over the world.
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Do you hold a grudge for days or weeks or years?
Do you require that everyone in your family dislike everyone you dislike and every thought you espouse and the list is long? Does everyone feel they have to walk on eggshells when they are in your presence? Are you an individual who cannot manage your emotions, and part of the reason is because it is just you by yourself trying to manage them? I’m not suggesting that you should work at being dead in the water emotionally. You want to be able to get excited and dance and sing, but you also don’t want to become permanently hyper and out of control.
Psychiatrists say that anger is the hardest emotion to master. So we need a doctor to tell us that? A few years ago, some people were teaching that we should let it all hang out. It was called “Scream Therapy” - that if you didn’t scream on a regular basis you would perpetually steam. In other words, gain control by losing control. The theory, thank goodness didn’t last.
Certainly there is a better way of doing it, infinitely better than having screaming sessions. It is called “reframing” or “reinterpreting” what has just happened in a more positive light. I’ve been doing this for years, I just didn’t have a name for it. It made sense to me that if someone gave me a hard time, it was because they had just finished having a hard time, or the night before, or were just having a bad day. I figured it was a waste of time and common sense to take it personally.
Now some people really are nasty and mean on a regular basis and they do not like you, along with a host of other people they don’t like. But they are in the minority and if you run across someone like that, pray that you don’t emulate them.
What we are talking about is a personality upgrade. A faith lift might be another way of putting it. Allowing the Lord, who knows and always has known your potential, to let you find it and do something about it.
There is the classic story of the artist Michelangelo pushing a gigantic rock down a cobbled street and being asked by someone why he is going to such extremes and effort. “Because,” answered the great sculptor, “there is an angel inside that rock and I am going to let him out.” Don’t ever underestimate your potential because, my dear friends, there is an angel inside of all of us wanting to be let all the way out.
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or…go the bottom of this article and click on “Tell a Friend.”
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU
CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE.
CLICK ON THE TOP RIGHT SIDE OF THIS SCREEN WHERE IT READS “CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEIL AS WESLEY, LUTHER, FRANKLIN & LINCOLN”…His presentations have been called equal to Hal Holbrook and were presented all over the world.
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