One of the saddest things anyone can tell me is that talk is cheap. I know where they’re coming from. They have the emotional scars to prove it, so I don’t dispute that experience. It’s a sad thing to hear, because talk at it’s best is designed to be enriching, not cheap at all. In […]
Read More Talk Is RichWe were having a conversation about this child at school. To say he was unruly would be an understatement. It seems like it was his point of duty every day to disrupt. Sometimes verbally, but often physically. It didn’t bother him who he hit or hurt. And despite all of the problems he was bringing […]
Read More Suppress vs ExpressThere’s something about a good testimony. Before I talk about that a bit more, there’s a programme that I cannot forget and that programme was called This Is Your Life. I have no idea who liked watching it between my father and mother, but I just remember that it would be on and I would […]
Read More Centre of Attention: This Is His LifeThere was this conversation taking place between a friend and I. We were going through the things we believe we could not live without. To make things fair, we agreed to consider how things have changed in our lives from, twenty-five, twenty, fifteen and five years ago as well as today. You’d be fascinated to […]
Read More Without … NothingThere is something about being given the privilege of having a go at a great opportunity. The story is told of a man who was head-hunted to become the manager a second division football team. He was told of the history of the club and told that the potential at the club was great. The […]
Read More Remember Seeing the PotentialI don’t think we’ll ever get to a stage where heroes are out of vogue. Overtly or subconsciously there’s an encouragement to look up to folks. Perhaps it starts as a child and your first role models are the folks you look at who define and exemplify what life is like. You see them and […]
Read More Avoiding the Santa SyndromeIt occurred to me that apt is probably a shortened way of saying appropriate. The sentiment behind both words are similar – it’s fitting, it’s on point, it’s right for the context. It occurred to me when I was reflecting on life at the moment and how March went. As implicit in the name, March […]
Read More Apt for April: A Dryden UpdateWhat I like is when people advise you to be careful when you pull on that thread. That’s not blatantly telling you not to pull on that thread. It’s just a word of advice to be careful when you pull on that thread. What thread is that? It’s that thread that begins when that question […]
Read More Be Careful When You Pull On That Thread“Do you remember when you were hungry?” The question came out of the blue. Right in the middle of a conversation we were having. No lead up to it at all. Nothing to give the reason for that question to pop up. He just blurted out the question and I wanted to see where he […]
Read More Remember When You Were Hungry?It’s the areas of finances that it’s particularly irksome. It’s the thinking that this much goes to God and the rest is for me. Finances is one area, but it is indicative of approaches to life as a whole. God will get this time of the week and the rest is for me. God will […]
Read More No Division of Life – Totally Devoted
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