Words. They open and they close. They illuminate and they conceal. They console and they provoke. Their effect on the attitudes, behaviour and condition of people cannot be underestimated. Something happens. The words we use describe a picture and a narrative that we buy into. That narrative can do much to see how we will […]
Read More About Blaming CircumstancesIt is only when I think of the grace extended to me that I begin to recognise just how crucial grace is for life. There are times when people do some things and they are well up for the lambasting. Their behaviour was wrong, their attitude stank out the place, they should have had the […]
Read More A Place for GraceFor His Name’s Sake Shalom C. L. J. Dryden
Read More Journeyman Journal: What Are You Doing Here?Relationships matter. People are a great way that God shows His love and goodness. They’re an insight into how creation really is a work of art as well as a work from the heart. I was having a conversation with a dear friend of mine. She shared her heart to be responsive to God in […]
Read More Journeyman Journal: God and His Works of ArtThere is this thing some of us do to protect people. We don’t tell them everything. Now what is true is this – people don’t need to know everything. They don’t. It is not for them to know each and every aspect of everything we have ever done. That, however, is not what is really […]
Read More Things In The Dark Come Out In The LightFor His Name’s Sake Shalom C. L. J. Dryden
Read More Coming Soon … Return of the JourneymanJune 15th is a fairly significant date in the calendar of the Dryden Family for on this date in 2003 the union was made public and binding in a ceremony in front of witnesses. The day got me thinking of something suitable to note in reflecting on the time. Life with Authrine has taught me […]
Read More Two Sevens on Life with AuthrineIf I were to challenge some to think of a time in scripture when people were told to bow and some resisted, one of the first incidents people would refer to, would be the occasion when Daniel’s three friends – Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah – refused to bow to the image of Nebuchadnezzar. It is […]
Read More No Compromise: You Ain’t BowingOK a brief football reference, then I will move right on, honest. So, Wayne Rooney is the leading goalscorer for his club, Manchester United and his country. He has won every trophy there is to win in the game at club level and has scored crucial goals in the run up to that. Yet for […]
Read More Living Beyond OurselvesThere is something a little annoying about the focus on the individual. If human existence was just about the individual why on earth were we made as relational beings whose greatest expression is found in individuals getting together, working together, connecting together? Anyway, recently I was reflecting on the great experiences I have had at […]
Read More More Than A Group of Individuals
