I believe I’ve mentioned the power of story before, but very recent events bring me back to it. In as much as I’ve been a part of a family before – after all I grew up with my brother, sister, mother and father – I’ve never been in this position in a family before, namely […]
Read More Returning to the Power of the Story(He looks left to see if there’s any emails not yet sent that might get in his way – none there. He looks right to see if any great gospel artists have passed on deserving a special tribute – none there. It is safe to blog and so he begins …) There is a convention […]
Read More I’m Packing UpNot going to be long with you at all just putting in a post thanking God for taking me through the first half of the year. It’s been a rollercoaster ride of a year – January – Finishing work in Stoke and getting used to life without Stoke-on-Trent February – Wilderness time out of work […]
Read More It’s A Year Of Two Halves – A Word Of Thanksgiving On The First HalfIt’s all in the timing. Timing is important. Timing is very, very important. I love the jokes and good jokers and timing is crucial. Oh really get the timing right and it’s like fireworks and celebrations. Getting the timing just slightly out and the way it goes flat is worse than ginger beer going flat. […]
Read More Building and Maintaining Life MomentumToday Zoë turns ten weeks old, so you want to know how she is. She’s fine, thanks. I am finding it fascinating seeing how she’s growing out bit by bit. She’s not causing as much sleepless nights as she was previously. She’s finding her voice and using it to good effect when she needs something […]
Read More Ten Week Update – Zoë DrydenThe whole responsibility thing, isn’t all bad. I say that, because often the word responsibility doesn’t elicit shouts of joy and acclaim. Yet there are some real benefits to taking responsibilities seriously – some joyful benefits at that. I was reflecting on that today as I went about the domestic chores and family duties that […]
Read More On Personal ResolutionsYeah there’s the Jesus stuff which is very important to me. There is the church stuff, which is also very important. There are the ideas that knock around my head on other issues to talk about (for example I’m thinking about a series on All My Working Life). Yet from time to time it’s just […]
Read More Just Free-BloggingFinally we complete the mini-series that I’ve been writing about the family and my developing understanding of the this crucial foundation of society. It would be useful to summarise how I came to this point with a couple of dating scenarios. In January 1990 I was a 12 year old boy whose concept of family […]
Read More Consider Yourself One Of The Family – Where I Am NowGetting the balance right is something to be very conscious about. There are many demands on your time, some put on you by others, some put on by yourself, some that appear urgent and important and some that appear not to be the case but actually they are. I recognise that life being lead by […]
Read More The Ongoing Quest Of Getting The Balance RightBig things aren’t they? Weddings, funerals, christenings and those kind of things. A massive communal fuss is made at one cataclysmic moment, and then after that we get on with life. So it was last Saturday when people were made aware of the presence of yet another Dryden Daughter. (As it happens, strictly speaking, from […]
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