Today sees the end of the transfer window in football here in England.
I knew you’d be ecstatic to hear it. For the uninitiated, from July to today football clubs have the chance to strengthen their sides by buying and selling players. Usually teams want to emerge when the window closes with a better squad and a better feeling for the season ahead.
For that to happen you see what you have and then you see what you need and you search diligently to acquire what you need. At the same time you assess what needs to go to allow room for what you need so you can be a better outfit.
Can you see where this is going?
Just as that window closes, it seems to have opened for me. Having settled in Stoke-on-Trent at least in the home, it’s time to be sorting out the life and activities of Christopher Dryden. It is my desire to be fruitful and productive here. To do so requires carefully considering what I need to change personally in me. What do I need to add, what will help? What will I need to drop.
Getting closer to Jesus Christ I discover to see more of Him in my life, eliminates things unlike Him from my life. This can often be actually a delightful change – there are habits I struggled with and knew were counterproductive, to see a chance to get rid of these is a joy.
There are other things, however, which are harder to relinquish. For example some relationships necessarily need to be adjusted if I am to fulfil what I need to here. Some really positive well meaning activities likewise may require serious upheaval for the surpassing value of seeing Christ glorified in different ventures. Those ‘sales’ are harder to put through, but are essential so as to enjoy sooner rather than later the joy of being where He is rather than where He has been.
In the light of that, it’s worth my while noting and sharing some of those developments here in the September window of my own.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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