We didn’t go away for long. We were back within a week. Yet when we got back, it felt like we had been out of the loop for ages. I personally appreciated coming across the new friends we made when we were away. It is good to visit new places and connect and appreciate new […]
Read More Keep In Touch: Longing For That FamilyThere’s a lot of respect for the individual. In fact there’s a great concern not to be seen to be imposing anything on an individual. Every adult should be left to reach their own decisions and conclusions. That makes a great deal of sense. When it comes to learning to live the life of Jesus, […]
Read More Don’t Leave Them To ItThere are few television programmes that my whole family will watch together. One of them is old re-runs of Family Fortunes. (Yeah American cousins, you might have Family Feuds.) What we love about it are the various dynamics that makes the show so well done. Namely, the family members chosen, their efforts to ‘entertain’ and […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Enjoying Family FortunesThe first thing that comes to my mind is the dinner table. Later on I found out that certain families had the table set up where the food would be in different bowls and plates and it was for family members to share out what portion they wanted, or for someone to actively there and […]
Read More Where You First See ServiceHere is some of what Christ-centred, Holy Spirit filled family means to me. Some make a big deal of their ethnicity, nationality and cultural background. It is crucial to shaping and defining their identity. It is such a big deal to some that the idea of something being more important than that and framing their worldview […]
Read More A New Kind of FamilyHe was ill and this time it looked like the end. His four children – all adults with children of their own rushed to be at his bedside as he welcomed in the last days. He wanted his children to be near him. He wanted them to see what it was like to sleep well. […]
Read More When He’s Gone“Just ask him.” asserted Karen. “I don’t want to.” cowered Lily. It was clear Lily was reluctant to ask him, even though she knew she wanted it a lot. Deborah enquired as to why Abigail didn’t want to ask him. Maybe she didn’t think he had the ability to deliver it. Maybe he would not […]
Read More Just Ask HimMy wife and I were having a conversation recently. In it I was musing on how sad it is that no single person will ever know all there is to know about another individual. She concurred that it would be impossible for that to happen, but not in the sense that it’s necessarily a bad […]
Read More Not Just One: Need for RotationThere is something about the growing up experience that leads you back to where you started. Not necessarily with your parents. Not exactly at the place of your birth. Just the sense that however big and independent you get, whatever material possessions you gain and lose, there is something of far greater worth. Every so […]
Read More Year Eleven – Found A HomeMy name is Christopher Dryden. I am a member of the family of God which is also the Body of Christ. There was a song we used to sing in the church that spoke of how glad we were to belong to the family of God. It was a beautiful song and would get the […]
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