We are a work in progress. This phrase should be used just as much when things go right for us as when things go wrong. Each experience is is a part of the building project, if we’re conscious of what is being built and by whom. Wrong steps offer the opportunity for correction. Right steps […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Building and Fixing“I understand.” To hear those words from someone and see how true it rings from them is immense. Consider what it is to be understood and then given the time to work through and the space to develop on that. What a blessing that is. So rare and so valuable. And it is something we’re […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Time, Space & UnderstandingIt happens to be that a lot of their time was spent talking about what was wrong, how it was wrong and the bad feeling about the wrong. Such is their expertise in the area that it almost came across as their specialist subject. What was glaring in its omission was a focus on what […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Focus on the True“Do what you do best.” “What’s that?” One of the glorious things of a relationship with God is that He will instruct you to do what you do best, because what you do best is to obey Him. That’s you at your best because responding to instruction from your Creator is to be attuned to […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Responding To InstructionModern gadgets have their settings. Humanity have their settings as well. Sadly, most of the settings for humanity seem to revolve around being enslaved and addicted to that which highlights and hastens the downfall of humanity. This is why it is so good to know that Jesus looks at those who are oppressed and changes […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Set At LibertyCertain characters and personalities define a time. They don’t have to do it by intention and plan, but once they have done it, their role is noted in history. Once they do it they are known to be noted in their time and highlight their time throughout time. What is it to be a person […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: In Time and Of the TimeIt is one of life’s great blessings to accomplish a task in the company of like-minded people. The roles we play, the interaction and quality of relationship as well as the functioning of abilities that lead to what is achieved together is remarkable. It is such a pleasing aspect of life, I get a glimpse […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: What We Do TogetherWhen she said it I heard her through my hunger and frustration. I then heard her through what I’m used to hearing from her. I then heard her from a place of someone endevouring to understand her on her own definitions and feelings. Even then, I needed to hear her further from the position of […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Listen CarefullyWe’ve been here before haven’t we? And we got here because we did the same thing before. And before that happened we did what had also happened before. This is no different to every other time, we’re just going around in circles. That was the concern. Until someone pointed out that a cycle likewise goes […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: The Cycle and the CircleIt is encouraging to hear of how many overnight successes were years in the making. It is good to know that things that people take for granted on a daily basis, took some people decades to get to the place of delivering these things. It may not get traction immediately. It might requite tweaks, rejigs […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Persevere
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