Who Are My Family?

OK from the get-go all Dryden Family members at ease. I ain’t defecting. (Yet) I was watching Captain America: Civil War for the second time, recently, and I intend to watch it a third time as soon as I can. I love it for a lot of reasons, but this is not a movie review […]

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Failing At Success Terrifically

If success is earning loads of money – I am failing at success terrifically. If success is being very popular among a large number of people – I am failing at success terrifically. If success is defeating everyone in my to get to the top of the pile in my profession – I am failing […]

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Until The Final Whistle

“Oh no, Christopher, not another football related blog entry!” Oh come on, it’s not all about football. It’s just that there are some handy lessons from football that apply to other areas of life. For example, an adage in the game is to keep on playing until the final whistle. It doesn’t take that long […]

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Healing Heartbreak

It was a very special service. A woman had come up and shared a powerful testimony of how she was miraculously healed of a seriously debilitating illness that had her on a lot of medication that did little to rid her of the excruciating pain. The testimony was so touching that there was a recognition […]

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More about Grace

There’s a word that I hear often and it’s really annoying. That word is ‘lucky’. I know where people are coming from when they say it. What bugs me about it is that it fails to recognise the source of credit for the things that happen to us for which we are not directly responsible.. […]

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Partnerships

The sporting context was the first time I really appreciated partnerships. In as much as it is a team sport with 11 players on each side, there were certain areas where two players connected to be productive for the team because of the understanding they developed. Some at times referred to a sort of telepathy […]

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