Today marks the end of another eventful chapter in the life and times of Christopher Dryden and the Dryden Family. This post has been written a few hours in advance. By this time we should be well on the way to completing the packing of the removal van and our own vehicle as we close […]
Read More Thank You God For BletchleyIt has not always been easy to leave well. There have been some partings of the way that have been messy and acrimonious. There have been burnt bridges and soured relations which has lead to the end of some affairs. Of late, however, I’ve been delighted with the impression my wife and daughters have made […]
Read More Bletchley Lessons: Leave WellA friend said that good people are hard to find. Once they’re found it’s important to nourish that relationship. It’s not as though adversity was unusual before Bletchley, or that adversity in Bletchley was that much more overwhelming than on previous occasions. It’s just that the importance of good friends emerged even greater than before […]
Read More Bletchley Lessons: Adversity Helps You Know Your Real Friends(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 WalkI was having a conversation with a very dear and good friend. We were talking about marriage. The friend brought up compromise. After I got my breathe back I was all up for writing about it, but to ensure I wasn’t duplicating, I checked to see if I’d written about it before. I had. Click […]
Read More A Reminder About Compromise and CollaboroationI’m not what I want to be, but thank God I’m not what I used to be. I have heard that line and variations of it for quite some time now. It can get so familiar that it loses its significance and can be somewhat cliche. Thankfully every now and then things happen to actually […]
Read More The Gospel: What Has Changed and What Is Changing?God sucker punched me again. I was thinking about Christmas and how we miss the opportunity to share Christ at Christmas for one reason or other. Now I don’t celebrate Christmas for various reasons and have gone through a number of developments in my stance on the issue. It leaves me still not celebrating it, […]
Read More All Bitterness ErasedThere is comfort in the simple things. Keeping things simple means, so the thinking goes, that we can address things just as simply. So all I want is something to eat. So as long as it’s edible and available, I eat and my hunger is satisfied. Simple. I do believe aspects of the human experience […]
Read More Reflecting On The Complexity Of HumanityConfession time. The main overseer of the denomination in which I was brought up passed away recently. Last night I discovered that Larry Hagman, the man who was J.R. also passed away. The death of Hagman had a bigger impact on me than the death of the overseer. Yes, I accept what a sad indictment […]
Read More Knowing You and Missing YouOne of the reasons why I love my wife is because we have conversations that can lead to blog entries. There are other reasons – she is beautiful after all – but this is a good reason for the purposes of this entry. We spoke of a hypothetical situation. Here is the situation. Ron and […]
Read More When Do You Blow The Whistle?
