RUST ON MY SOUL (43rd in series)

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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.

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Afternoon


My stamina has not caught up with my determination, but slowly I will get it all put down. It isn’t hard to remember the day you almost die. You’re afraid to forget, as if remembering will keep the miracle of life from gong away.


Sound. What do you do when there is none? It was like turning down the T.V. I was slumped against the steering wheel. “If I were drunk you could smell it.”


I said to the policeman. I could think again. The glorious ability to reason Eight words and then no more. It was as if my thoughts were slipping slowly from my brain and sliding toward the ground.


Panic! Where had the officer gone? Why had he left me?


“Here. Breathe deep. It’s oxygen. I’ve called an ambulance.”
Thank God my hearing has returned. But I never heard the ambulacne’s siren. Maybe it only blinked its ligh frantically in the late afternoon traffic jam.

Would I die before I reached the hospital? I wasn’t frightened by my inner question. I viewed my thoughts and surroundings with detachment. It must have been nature’s narcotic at work.

There were questions. They raced up an down the avenues of my mind at half speed, yet spurting…
Spurt…”if my body quits, my soul is all I have left.”
Spurt…”What time is it?” No one answered, but had I really asked the question or just thought it? Why must I always know what time it is?

The stethoscope was cold against my chest. Flat on my back, the stretcher gliding through the hospital doors. I was in someone else’s hands. I don’t like to relinquish control.

Spurt…”I can’t be having a heart attack. I’m only forty-nine. Seldom even sick. Maybe a little overweight, under-exercised, a little tense, worried, but I’m not a candidate for a heart attack.”
My reasoning did nothing to calm my bounding anxiety.

Spurt…”How much have I accomplished?” How much time do I have left to finish? I can’t make it alone. Help me. –he.p..hel…”
To be continued 
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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 A NEW SERIES…


A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on this Wyrck’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 NEW 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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