“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 […]
Read More MemberYou know brotherly love. Honestly. You know it. Yet there is more to know about it. You don’t even need to have a brother to know brotherly love. You don’t even need to be male to know brotherly love. When Peter encourages his readers to add brotherly love, he could have been referring to the […]
Read More Add To Your Godliness – Brotherly Love“I remember … When they were young, they would fall, hurt themselves and come running to me. They ran to me because I could take the pain away. They ran to me because I could make it better. They ran to me because everything they needed was found in me. They got older and thought […]
Read More On The Run: The Problem in a MemoryInteresting Psalm this. House, city, anxiety, sleep and the benefit of children. Not on the surface the most connected of issues, until you look at that first word: house. I don’t read the house mentioned here as only a physical construction. It’s not just the bricks and mortar. It is all about the habitat. Whether […]
Read More Psalm 127 – Who Is Building Your House?Blessed. What a word. What a thought behind the word. What a delight in the thought behind the word. The more I consider the word, the more I appreciate it as a relational thing. Someone blesses me – that says something about the person and their connection to me. Being blessed is no even so […]
Read More December Thanks #01: FamilyRecently the family supported the first two girls as they represented their school football team in a tournament with a few other schools. The team that my daughters played in won the tournament. The feeling of exhilaration and euphoria was significant for me. Seeing my girls do so well in their effort and then help […]
Read More All That Thrills My Soul …Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But King David mourned many days for his son. (2 Samuel 13:37 NIV) David had done wrong in plotting and scheming, it cost the life of a husband and a baby boy. Yet the punishment of God was to extend to his […]
Read More Sam’s 2nd Epic 13 – The Dysfunction of David’s Dynasty
