There is a phrase that talks about ‘the elephant in the room’. This is meant to address how something glaringly obvious is sometimes overlooked or ignored despite its prominence. When delivering sessions and working on a one to one basis with individuals, sometimes this condition is more than apparent. For example someone who has a […]
Read More The Little Thing and the Obvious Thing(For more on Bletchley Lessons read the intro) Life in Stoke-on-Trent was full of people and their business. There was hardly a moment where others were not involved and it could get stifling at times. Leaving Stoke-on-Trent suddenly thrust us into a very different kind of existence. Moving to Bletchley and our time here has […]
Read More Bletchley Lessons: Never Alone(For more on Bletchley Lessons read the intro) I don’t remember walking that much when I was living in Manchester briefly, and the last few years of life in Stoke-on-Trent had infrequent walking episodes. For the first half of the time in Bletchley, walking was hardly in the picture. In latter times however, there has […]
Read More Bletchley Lessons: It’s Good To Walk(For more on Bletchley Lessons read the intro) Zoe is our two year old daughter. She was carried into Bletchley barely 3 months old, she will walk out confidently when we leave. On this occasion her confident walking took her next door to Dave’s house, where he and his son were putting up their Christmas […]
Read More Bletchley Lessons: Live at Peace with Your NeighboursI like learning. I like teaching. I consider myself to be a bit of an inquisitive person. I do not necessarily take what I am given as if it were all there was to it. I certainly do not always trust what I’ve been given initially. I like to understand it through questioning it. It […]
Read More Teaching And Learning – Not Always Because You Want ToIt came to me when I woke up this morning. First of all it was the tune. There have been quite a few versions of the song, but the one that was fresh in my mind because it was the one that I had listened to most often was the one by Michael McDonald and […]
Read More Stop, Look and Listen To God’s HeartIt has been a quite remarkable week in the life of Christopher Dryden. Faced a few unsettling home issues, but the family have remained exuberant and lively. In and among all of this I called my mentor who has been looking after me for nearly 20 years. I love my mentor. It is one thing […]
Read More Compassionately Constructive FeedbackI just cannot tell you how often being a parent, I feel like I’m parenting myself! I see my attitudes towards my parents in the way my children behave. Though it’s a completely different context and they are genuinely very different people to me (for starters I was never the daughter!) it is amazing how […]
Read More Child Of God, You Will LearnThis is not meant to be a facetious blog entry but I can appreciate those who might see it that way. This afternoon I had the privilege of engaging in the annual ritual of parent-teacher evening. Once more I sat across the teacher who has the horror/honour of teaching my beloved daughter. As I sat […]
Read More Just Wondering … If Our Father Went To A Parents’ EveningWhen considering life in Christ we come to another tricky, sticky issue. In coming in touch with Jesus there is a quandary about now that you’ve met Him, what do you do? Being brought up in church, after my first personal encounter with Christ that lead to my baptism, I fell into the comfortable routine […]
Read More So You’re A New Believer … God Help You!
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