Some things just feel right. Reading and writing words have felt right to me for as long as I can remember. The opportunity that blogging presents to write words and present them is one that I remain grateful for. Reaching 20 years of blogging has not given me the impression that it’s time to stop. […]
Read More Blog Schedule UpdateThe greatest day of the week is Thursday. I hope that’s established now. What makes Thursday the greatest day, among other things, is the opportunity to enjoy a treat, and what a treat it is to spend the day reflecting and considering. Reflecting on the goodness of God over a year and considering the goodness […]
Read More Dryden Update: The Way Forward is DelightIt has been a good year. Not everything in the year has been good. It’s worked out for good. A lot of good has come from the year. Very positive experiences have come about, new connections, new opportunities, and new relationships. Those have been the basis for promising projects that I hope will be revealed […]
Read More Thankful for The YearPersonally the year has been a fascinating one from the first quarter to the last. Tracking it through what I post on this blog you wouldn’t detect those issues and it;s intriguing reading those posts and knowing what I was going through at the same time. That is to say, I am grateful to God […]
Read More Good Stuff From the Blog in 2025According to the records, I’ve posted over 5,000 blog entries since the launch of the blog in 2005. I have not gone through every single one of those entries to reach this one and there’s every chance that another one might be worthy of selection. Yet when I thought about one entry I’d choose for […]
Read More 20 for 20 #20 If There Was One …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 […]
Read More 20 for 20 #19 Blogging But Not AloneGet 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 […]
Read More 20 for 20 #18 Dryden Shorts Part 3It 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 […]
Read More 20 for 20 #17 AuthrineThere 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 […]
Read More 20 for 20 #16 About Prayer Part 2I 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 […]
Read More 20 for 20 #15 My Brother
Life With CD 