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RUST ON MY SOUL (A Novel) (Published by Bridge Press in 1985 & Distributed Internationally)
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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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
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Recently posted was a serialization from 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 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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To view an abundance of unusual stories and comments by Neil Wyrick go to Neil’s other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES “Depression…the Alien Within” on this Wyrick’s Writings …
”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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There are over 600 stories and commentaries on this blog. It is added to daily.
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