I remember from a very early age singing a hymn called Count Your Blessings. Looking back the lyrics are fairly basic and simple – count your blessings, name them one by one, count your many blessings, see what God has done. As ever with the hymns that are sung time and time again from childhood […]
Read More My GratitudeAs you maybe aware Mrs Dryden – the heart and soul of the Dryden household, the love of my life who is of course my wife – is scheduled to deliver the third Dryden child of the marital union. (Someone once said I had a way with words, I know it’s a double edged compliment, […]
Read More How’s Authrine Watch – Part OneRecently I did the quarterly review of the kind of stuff that’s been published over at the over place. As I mentioned in that report though, whereas that blog is an open access blog with a lot of stuff easily accessible to people interested in the things I am, this here blog, the older blog, […]
Read More State of the Blog Address: Jan-Mar – DMCDThe following is something that was inspired by an email I received from a very close person in my life … relationally. If you read it in a particular way it may be structured in a familiar way to a song that was rendered originally by one Kirk Franklin. Due thanks go to him for […]
Read More The Reason Why I TweetCharm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. (Proverbs 31:30) This particular chapter in Proverbs is lauded for what has been known as the portrait of the virtuous woman, but really it’s about the virtuous wife and the difference is crucial. With this portrait we […]
Read More MTP31 – A Virtuous WifeI was walking home one evening recently and as I was walking home I knew I needed to go get some little groceries to tide us over as a family for a little while longer. As I made me way to the place it occurred to me that nothing beats marriage. Now this is not […]
Read More Nothing Beats MarriageI wrote the majority of this at the beginning of March with the intention of just editing it here and there and posting it. Such is life that time flew by and I wasn’t able to post it, but it’s still very much relevant as an update on where things are now. No matter how […]
Read More DMCD Update – Better Late …The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty. (Proverbs 21:5) One of my favourite stories I heard as a child was that of the hare and the tortoise. First of all what a name for an animal – tortoise. What was Adam English* thinking when […]
Read More MTP21 Dedication to the DiligentA man of quick temper acts foolishly, (Proverbs 14:17a) Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. (Proverbs 14:29) The trick was to find a way to wind me up. Knowing me as well as she did she would easily coax me into her trap with […]
Read More MTP14 Temper, TemperWe make some big decisions in life, but usually those decisions come one at a time, in my case though quite a number happened at the same time. Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four of this series can be accessed through clicking the links and explain aspects of the move. I addressed […]
Read More The Exit Strategy Interview – Part 5
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