Success. Prosper. Flourish. Many offer promises for tomorrow of something better ahead. They present themselves as the ones to lead you to a land of promise and life of splendour. They offer words that seduce and thoughts to stimulate. In it all, though, there is no substance. The substance is found in Jesus as our […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Be The VisionYou would not get upset if it didn’t matter. You would not say what you said if it didn’t matter. You would have shrugged your shoulders and moved on because it did not matter. But it matters. That’s why it’s not only an emotional reaction that’s called for but for corrective action. At least something […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: If It Didn’t Matter …One thing to the next. An activity here and an activity there. You can get caught up and not stop to consider where you are, how you got there, and what that means in light of where you’re going. It’s good to stop. It’s good to rest. It’s good to reflect and see points worth […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Celebrate And ImproveGod gives us the water of life. Refreshing and reinvigorating. Useful for the outer man, essential for the inner man. Not just water for the self, but also water to flow from us to serve others. Water that suits the soul for it is pure and for our healing. With so many other pretender beverages […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: There’s Water Of LifeThe message received determines the mission. If the message is about getting somewhere when you die the mission will lack power and purpose. If the message is a call to a new way of living the mission is full of the power and purpose of the one who gave it. Here, the mission is not […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: The Message and The MissionThe unsearchable riches of Christ. This is an invitation to discover that whatever we knew about what it is to live, is not even scratching the surface. We do what we can to understand. Yet when Jesus takes us out of darkness into marvellous light, it is not just to leave ignorance, it is to […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: A Lot More Than ThatFirst it was my parents. Who are they? When will they look after me? Then it was my sister. Why is she like that? Then it was my brother. Why is he like that? The worst thing happened when I started to be fascinated with myself. Why am I like this? Who am I? Things […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: The First StudyIt does not come from out of nowhere. It started somewhere and emerged in its final form from somewhere else. And the in between period is the important bit – it’s the process. It’s the decisions made, the environment cultivated, the approach best suited and executed for the desired outcome to be produced. One person […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: The ProcessThere are things done so habitually as part of life, they would only be noticed when they were not done, so ingrained are they to daily existence. Breathing is probably the one done most habitually. As we understand it, failing to do that usually means we ain’t doing the existing thing. What else could we […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Every DayYou are here. This is you. This is what you do. Yet there is where you’re heading, that is what you aim for, that is what you want to do. You know this. Yet you persist in doing what you’re doing here as though it will get you there. No. To get from here to […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Need For Adjustments
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