16MTP 29 – Justice for the Poor

The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern. (Proverbs 29:7 NIV) The effort and sentiment behind the bid to make poverty history is rooted in a tremendous compassion for the poor. Whether humanity will ever reach the stage where the impoverished is a distant memory is open to […]

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Your Burden Is Your Assignment

This blog entry is inspired by a statement made by someone for whom my admiration has sky-rocketed over the past decade. (You know who you are, Your Majesty.) That inspiration was relatively straightforward – your burden is your assignment. By which the meaning is that whatever bugs you and bothers you and pesters you and […]

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YIR15 – 09 – Tough Times

I like to use this blog to share some personal information about what goes on in my life, but you just need to read a broad selection of entries to know I don’t get real personal too often. This blog won’t be an accurate or informed diary of the life and times of Christopher Dryden, […]

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Thank God for … Compassion

It’s worth listening to children and the amazing hearts they have. In listening to one recently, I was taken aback with the level of concern they expressed for those in Third World countries. Recognising their own materially privileged circumstances, they had a heart to help those who were not even able to access bare minimal […]

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Abnormal

“You’re not normal.” She had heard that all her life. Her size made her the victim of endless bullying when she was younger.As she was not the most academically inclined they used that as another verbal stick with which to beat her. She wasn’t able to do the hairdressing job she wanted to do because of […]

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