What makes a family? Where are we to get the definition of the family from? Who is to say when a family is properly functioning and when it is breaking down? For those who have faith, it is crucial to see the source of family as the Creator Himself. It is reassuring to know that […]
Read More Family Formation: 02 – FoundationAbram is a real guy. That’s certainly what we can derive from what’s written about him in scripture. It takes faith to trust God to leave his family. Abram exercises that faith. At the same time, he’s also anxious enough to cover himself when it comes to his wife in Egypt. Faith to believe God […]
Read More Abram: Awesome Assurance and Awry AgreementsThe offer was made and it was such an attractive one. The life on offer truly was amazing to consider. That could be life from here on? That could be received in the here and now as well as for a limitless period. Who wouldn’t want to buy into that? Then there was the cost […]
Read More Who Rules? You Have To Let GoWhat matters more – my feelings or the truth? It would be easy to say ‘the truth’. Experience, however, reveals that my feelings trump the truth. Offended at grievances, rather than searching for the truth of the matter, I’m more prone to make a mission of harbouring bitterness to the one who caused the hurt […]
Read More My Feelings and the TruthThe noise rages. The incessant, demanding accusations and bleating look to shake and drive him insane. How does he keep going? He goes to those places in his mind. Places where he rests in the presence of the Holy One. Places where he remembers forgiveness, redemption and restoration. Places where he revels in purpose and […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: There Are PlacesDysfunctional families. It’s a description that’s applied to quite the range of family stories. Sometimes about how the family is formed and sometimes about how the family operates. Although some people think that as long as there is a flaw in the family it can be described as dysfunctional, there is a relative and comparative […]
Read More Family Formation: 01 – First ThoughtsHe didn’t want him to stay in the company he was in. He was not going to make a people with him in the middle of that mess. No. That just wouldn’t fit His plan at all. According to the account given by Stephen later on, this guy got the message waited until his Dad […]
Read More Abram: It’s About Time You LeftIt was a given in the household when we were growing up. The children would go to their bed to sleep first. That was not always because the adults wanted to stay downstairs late. It was just the way the order of the home went. So when it was time to bed, we would go […]
Read More Goodnight Dad, Goodnight MumBarren. That’s what they called her. It got to the point that her name appeared to be totally irrelevant. For all they knew her to be was barren. Every effort was made, every investigation undertaken. It clearly wasn’t her husband’s issue. It was all about her. Her inability. Barren. Perhaps if she just focused on […]
Read More So Desperate For LifeNo marriage is perfect. This does not stop people getting married. There is an idea of marriage worth pursuing that can keep it thriving. Not that I had this at the forefront of my thinking in the early years of marriage. Previously on this series of detaching and attaching, I remarked on the amazing attachment […]
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