Some don’t think their life has much to offer, but it’s so much more valuable that we sometimes appreciate. Recently my wife and I had the great privilege of sitting to have a meal with another couple we value highly. There was something the husband said that made my eyes fill with tears. He shared […]
Read More Much To OfferFor the longest time, I have loved going around with a backpack. When I went to secondary school my Uncle Joe got me a blue and turquoise Hi-Tec sports bag. It was decent. But it was something else when someone showed me how it could be worn as a backpack. When someone showed me that, […]
Read More BaggageThis is a part of my story. It’s not the whole story, but it’s a part of it. I was brought up in a loving Christian household. Both my parents are devoted Christians. A lot of my upbringing was shaped by practices and behaviours learnt from their conduct at home and the cultural expression of […]
Read More Who Is This All For?February is a notorious month for how quickly it leaves. I say notorious, there’s something about leaving February that lets me know in no uncertain terms that this year is in full swing. It’s remarkable really. This month has flown by with indecent haste. For all that, though, it was still a month of some […]
Read More In Agreement – A March Dryden UpdateTrust is a massive concept. It’s amazing seeing how that changes in the years of development of a baby to an infant to a teenager. The dependent baby has no questions. The infant may have a question. The teenager … I applaud the parents that have teenagers that don’t question whether overtly or otherwise. Well […]
Read More Do You Know What You’re Doing?Can you be critical of something and be a big supporter of it? Sometimes I get the impression that to support something is to only allow at most some mild criticism, but anything more than that and it is seen as no longer being a supporter of something. If there is a tendency to be […]
Read More Critical SupporterClarity. In February 2010, I remember being in a situation where that word came into sharp focus. (Geddit? I’ll be here waiting when you do.) What was clear in the circumstances I was in was that clarity was in short supply. As a result activities were meant to take place with certain things done but […]
Read More When You Know Where You StandWe were talking about the progress she has made since she arrived in the country. What tended to happen was she would mention something and I would help her appreciate just how much more there was to the experience that helped to shape how she’s grown in those years. Sometimes it is in looking at […]
Read More Perspective and ThanksgivingHave you ever sat through a conversation that features the other person doing most of the talking? In as much as I don’t go looking for confrontation, others I have known in my time have not had such reluctance. That has lead to me having to sit through certain people having those types of conversations […]
Read More Convincing more than ConfrontingThe Psalms are a masterpiece of poetry to consider. The way in which they inform and express, seek out and be assured by. Te entire gamut of the human experience touched on and put in the context of the God who created us and the world around us. Like your music collection of the tracks […]
Read More Sing: Shaping Minds and Hearts in God’s Word
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