The Importance of Understanding

I got another lesson in the importance of understanding through helping me daughter with her schoolwork. She’s a bright girl is me daughter (note I’m not being specific for reasons that shall emerge in the fullness of time).  She’s switched on and is alert and attentive to what’s going on and can grasp concepts very […]

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Deborah At Six

Deborah Dryden, my firstborn, is 6 years old today. Birthdays are a great time to celebrate God’s goodness in life and act as a milestone to measure just how far we’ve come and how to still make it is a tribute to God’s grace. For example I was reflecting the other day how gospel legend […]

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But Then I Grew Up

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (1 Cor. 13:11) OK to start off with, thanks for asking the anniversary was the most memorable and special in all of our time […]

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Looking Forward and Liverpool

Looking Forward In 1998 I was encouraged to sit down and write where I saw myself at the age of 35. That exercise in itself was revealing in terms of what I thought of myself and what my dreams and ambitions were at the time. I often look back at those goals and check how […]

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