20 for 20 #19 Blogging But Not Alone

This blog has been an expression of whatever I’ve been thinking for 20 years. Not every post in this blog has been written by me. More importantly, I could not have written this blog alone, even if the majority of entries have my name on them. I was mindful of this when I wrote an […]

20 for 20 #18 Dryden Shorts Part 3

Get what I need to get said in 100 words or less. That doesn’t mean I get everything said. The Shorts is a space to leave a note on a key point. What I find often is that there are a lot of things I want to say about a matter, and the Shorts hints […]

20 for 20 #17 Authrine

It is the greatest thing God gave to human beings as a reflection of what He’s looking to do with His Son and the Church. Marriage. It’s God’s idea. It’s not a man-made construct … until it’s taken out of God’s hands. Then it becomes the kind of mess that people have no idea how […]

20 for 20 #16 About Prayer Part 2

There are few things in life more useful than prayer. The thing about prayer is what it does for us and through us. Being deliberately engaged in conversation with the Creator of the Universe certainly gets things off our chest to the most reliable Source in the universe. There’s something it can do to us […]

20 for 20 #15 My Brother

I am blessed. To reach 48 years with the stories I can tell about those years is living proof that I am blessed. I am primarily blessed because I am loved by God, and that love enables me to love in ways that I’ve never experienced and could never experience. I am a loner and […]

20 for 20 #14 Questions

It’s not that I have anything against cats; it’s just that when I was told the saying “curiosity killed the cat,” I thought the cat shouldn’t have got in the way of curiosity. That might sound a bit harsh, I know, but it’s more a reflection of the great regard I have for curiosity. And […]

20 for 20 #13 Dad

They sat around me. They used to be dependent girls, but now they were the ones in a position to offer me their help in various ways. I’m not that old, but they are of an age now where I recognise they can hold their own. That view made me think of my Dad, who […]

20 for 20 #12 Into the New

I love history a lot. It’s one of the reasons I love the Bible so much because of its expression of the story in the past as well as the future. It’s great. At the same time, I appreciate that I don’t live in history. Every day is a new day with new opportunities to […]

20 for 20 #11 Dryden Shorts Part 2

Jesus. I learn more and more that if life is not about Him, then it’s not living at all. Everything makes sense in the light of Him, and everything is filled with life because of Him. It’s good to be able to express that in 100 words or less over the Dryden Shorts series. Here […]

20 for 20 #10 About Prayer Part 1

Prayer is prominent in scripture. The ability to converse with God on matters great and small is something marvellous to consider and something that God is keen to get us into. It’s no surprise, then, that what’s so basic and foundational in right relationship with God is precisely the sort of thing that is often […]