Here 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 FamilyIt occurred to me when I woke up this morning. As the first thoughts were drifting in, something triggered a memory. Lo and behold there it was, the fact that something momentous took place on Saturday 19th February 1994 in Mill Road Baptist Church in Wellingborough. At some point in the afternoon/evening, Elder Pink and […]
Read More Taking The Plunge – 25 Years OnHe 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 GoneIt’s not just that you need the space. It’s that the space has to be cultivated to be fit for purpose. For some that space is physical. They need a certain size of area to be just right with the right dimensions in which the work can begin. It could be the size of paper […]
Read More Is There Room to Flourish?It was the way he mentioned longing that really resonated with me. There’s been so much talk about feeling at home with your own culture. People wanting to return to where they’re comfortable and that comfort is defined by certain hallmarks of the background. Style of music, clothes, expression, etc. So much in the way […]
Read More LongingIt is interesting when people suggest that they are useless. OK they might not be useless, but they feel useless. They feel like they cannot make any contributions to anything. They feel they are in a dead end job, doing something largely redundant that is keeping them ticking over in their seemingly dead end life. […]
Read More Contributing to the Effort“You what they’re like, right?” They ask for a character reference to ensure they are getting someone of good standing. It’s one thing for the person to suggest they have the character, it is another thing to get that corroborated from a trustworthy source who can endorse the person. If you were around when that […]
Read More You Know What He’s Like?There’s a lot going on with him. He doesn’t say much when challenged about it, but it’s clear that there’s a lot going on with him. though he may bottle it all within. It is seen a little in his desire to fit in and feel like he belongs. His disruptive behaviour has brought some […]
Read More Patience, Conforming and ReconditioningFor some, the prize is the money. For others the prize is fame. Certain issues are at stake for a number of people. Some see the family as the ultimate prize where others see accomplishments with their life’s work as what is worth the effort. Prestige and pomp, power and position, factors pursued by some […]
Read More The Prize Worth Fighting ForThis blog is not automated by robots. As yet I don’t think there is available technology to produce entries automatically and post them. From that you can be sage that I am still populating this blog with the updates its received. I’ve read a little bit here and there about how blogging is dead. I […]
Read More Change and Blogging: A Dryden Update
Life With CD 