If you open box A you win the special star prize. If you open box B you get the booby prize. Booby prize. Back in the day I took that phrase for what it meant – this is the worst ‘prize’ you could attain. You didn’t want the booby prize. It was so bad that […]
Read More What Reward?There are different thigns to like about races. My friend is doing a triathlon and when he talks about the training he does for it, I am in awe of him. I am also in awe of his wife and daughter. They are there for him at the start of the race and they are […]
Read More At The Start – At The EndGod willing. When he said it, you could hear him affirm clearly in his head whatever he had in mind to do was subject to God. He gave himself the space to acknowledge that everything he said and did was not all in his power and ability to produce. He also knew that it was […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Don’t Take It For GrantedSomething that helps in times of trouble, is to know why you’re going through. You’re not going through to survive. What is survival anyway? There are greater things at stake than survival. You’re not going through to just learn some lessons and whatever doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger, useful though that may be. […]
Read More All For The PrizeThe honesty is refreshing and the depth of despair is something people can relate with. His life was threatened and afterall he had done, he felt it was all for nothing. He felt like he was a failure and that he wasn’t that much better than all those that came before him that likewise had […]
Read More Maybe You Need To Talk Things Over‘On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” ‘ Mark 4:35 Hindsight really is a wonderful thing. One of the things about hindsight, though, is seeing where the clues where there to ensure we didn’t have to go through with that degree of anxiety […]
Read More He Did Say We’re Going AcrossThe clouds looked ominous, but we had already set out. For all that, the way things turned was alarmingly swift and brutal. Waves turned into mighty crashing hands set on destroying the boat. Winds howled with menace threatening to drive us over or capsize the entire thing. We could hardly hear each other, but the […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: The StormIt is made to the desired requirements. So when it operates as it should it will bring pleasure and delight to the one who had those requirements. There may be issues to prevent it operating as it should. Those can be rectified in the light of those requirements. Unique, specifically created for the occasion and […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Custom MadeShe doesn’t get the headlines. Her name is rarely mentioned. Others get the media attention. Others are approached at the end of the meetings. Others get the emails and letters. Others get the plaudits. Those others, though, in their quiet time and when they are asked privately will say without hesitation that she is the […]
Read More Diligence: Thoroughly To The Best Of Your AbilityConditioned. The four men, as they sat around the table, came to the conclusion that it was good to recognise that all of their lives in one way or another, they had been conditioned. They had been conditioned not just by ideology, but by accepted practices. Two of the men, Tim and John, had been […]
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