I am a loner. My preference has been my own company. Even with a beautiful family of a loving wife and three really awesome daughters, I don’t always love spending every minute of my time with them. Despite being a loner, however, the love of God compels me again to understand that I am nothing […]
Read More What I Love About Church: FellowshipAs you might have gathered if you’ve read some of these entries over the years, the Dryden family has moved around a bit in the last seven years or so. It was certainly not by design, it is just the way things have happened. What moving around does, however, is that it brings you across […]
Read More Growing and Changing and Relationships in the Past and NowA friend said that good people are hard to find. Once they’re found it’s important to nourish that relationship. It’s not as though adversity was unusual before Bletchley, or that adversity in Bletchley was that much more overwhelming than on previous occasions. It’s just that the importance of good friends emerged even greater than before […]
Read More Bletchley Lessons: Adversity Helps You Know Your Real FriendsDecember is an interesting month as far as I am concerned. Of course it’s not the best month of the year. That indisputably goes to its predecessor, November. Yet in December the following significant events took place in my life. 1999 – This was the time when I had a ground-breaking, life-changing encounter with the […]
Read More Introducing Bletchley LessonsI like learning. I like teaching. I consider myself to be a bit of an inquisitive person. I do not necessarily take what I am given as if it were all there was to it. I certainly do not always trust what I’ve been given initially. I like to understand it through questioning it. It […]
Read More Teaching And Learning – Not Always Because You Want ToIt came to me when I woke up this morning. First of all it was the tune. There have been quite a few versions of the song, but the one that was fresh in my mind because it was the one that I had listened to most often was the one by Michael McDonald and […]
Read More Stop, Look and Listen To God’s HeartIt is rather intriguing how narrow my worldview can be. I have a tendency to be fairly insular and have in the past considered myself a bit of an introvert. My recollection of childhood is one where I was familiar with the floors of many places, because I didn’t really have the confidence to look […]
Read More Embracing God’s Gifts In All Its GuisesIn itself there is nothing wrong with forms and routine. We are conditioned towards them even through things like day following night, winter and then summer and so on. There are rhythms of life that rightly help us determine what is going on. There is a problem, however, when the form becomes a formula and […]
Read More Faith Beyond The FormulaicIt has been a quite remarkable week in the life of Christopher Dryden. Faced a few unsettling home issues, but the family have remained exuberant and lively. In and among all of this I called my mentor who has been looking after me for nearly 20 years. I love my mentor. It is one thing […]
Read More Compassionately Constructive FeedbackI just cannot tell you how often being a parent, I feel like I’m parenting myself! I see my attitudes towards my parents in the way my children behave. Though it’s a completely different context and they are genuinely very different people to me (for starters I was never the daughter!) it is amazing how […]
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