Yeah there’s the Jesus stuff which is very important to me. There is the church stuff, which is also very important. There are the ideas that knock around my head on other issues to talk about (for example I’m thinking about a series on All My Working Life). Yet from time to time it’s just […]
Read More Just Free-BloggingFinally we complete the mini-series that I’ve been writing about the family and my developing understanding of the this crucial foundation of society. It would be useful to summarise how I came to this point with a couple of dating scenarios. In January 1990 I was a 12 year old boy whose concept of family […]
Read More Consider Yourself One Of The Family – Where I Am NowRecently I was writing about the kind of environment conducive to genuine praise and genuine community engagement in the light of the ‘spiritual covering’ practice. Read it for yourself by clicking for part one and part two. One aspect of the argument was about how we’re more likely to be ourselves when we’re at home. […]
Read More Consider Yourself … A PreambleIt’s funny in a lot of ways. I mean the kind of funny that makes me chuckle whimsically and somewhat ruefully. For years I’ve desired to be near my brother to be a physical presence in his life encouraging him to pursue all those things of which I know him to be capable. In all […]
Read More He Ain’t Heavy …I cruised through a lot of my life as I may have mentioned before. I didn’t feel the need to be motivated to achieve much as I felt I already had it in me to complete whatever task assigned to me by just exercising my natural talents and abilities. This worked a great deal for […]
Read More HATAR – Fast Reflections – Busy Doing My HomeworkGetting the balance right is something to be very conscious about. There are many demands on your time, some put on you by others, some put on by yourself, some that appear urgent and important and some that appear not to be the case but actually they are. I recognise that life being lead by […]
Read More The Ongoing Quest Of Getting The Balance RightWhat kind of son am I? Not a good one, evidently. Here we have the nerve centre for the online thinking and blogging on everything to do with the life of Christopher Dryden There are blogs regaling my brother, there are blogs regaling my sister, there are blogs regaling my father, there are blogs regaling […]
Read More For My MumBig things aren’t they? Weddings, funerals, christenings and those kind of things. A massive communal fuss is made at one cataclysmic moment, and then after that we get on with life. So it was last Saturday when people were made aware of the presence of yet another Dryden Daughter. (As it happens, strictly speaking, from […]
Read More A Week In The Life of Zoë DrydenSo last week was kinda dominated by the whole fuss around when the new baby was coming and I have to say going through the updates reminded me that this blog is about a record of my personal journey through life. Like little else I have, a blog gives me a chance to record the […]
Read More Taking Me For A Ride – DVD BonusI don’t believe I’ve shared the history of me and driving and I reckon it might be worth your while reading it as it forms a good part of this entry. Driving comes across to me as a crucial part of a rite of passage from being a child to being an adult. Whenever the […]
Read More Taking Me For A Ride – Part One
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