I am a loner. My preference has been my own company. Even with a beautiful family of a loving wife and three really awesome daughters, I don’t always love spending every minute of my time with them. Despite being a loner, however, the love of God compels me again to understand that I am nothing […]
Read More What I Love About Church: FellowshipRecently I shared a parable about a woman, a wedding and a hair salon experience. The parable is worth an explanation. Of course not all parables are worth an explanation but this one certainly was. It came to me one morning – one of those things you get when you’re waking up giving the impression […]
Read More The Hair Experience: An ExplanationShe had never been more excited. Here she was a few days away from the greatest day of her life. It had all seemed to fit so right. He wasn’t like others. He was more interested in her than his own pursuits. Their relationship was built on a solid friendship of trust and mutual transparency. […]
Read More The Hair Experience: A ParableIt has not always been easy to leave well. There have been some partings of the way that have been messy and acrimonious. There have been burnt bridges and soured relations which has lead to the end of some affairs. Of late, however, I’ve been delighted with the impression my wife and daughters have made […]
Read More Bletchley Lessons: Leave WellA friend said that good people are hard to find. Once they’re found it’s important to nourish that relationship. It’s not as though adversity was unusual before Bletchley, or that adversity in Bletchley was that much more overwhelming than on previous occasions. It’s just that the importance of good friends emerged even greater than before […]
Read More Bletchley Lessons: Adversity Helps You Know Your Real Friends(For more on Bletchley Lessons read the intro) Life in Stoke-on-Trent was full of people and their business. There was hardly a moment where others were not involved and it could get stifling at times. Leaving Stoke-on-Trent suddenly thrust us into a very different kind of existence. Moving to Bletchley and our time here has […]
Read More Bletchley Lessons: Never AloneGod sucker punched me again. I was thinking about Christmas and how we miss the opportunity to share Christ at Christmas for one reason or other. Now I don’t celebrate Christmas for various reasons and have gone through a number of developments in my stance on the issue. It leaves me still not celebrating it, […]
Read More All Bitterness ErasedIt came to me when I woke up this morning. First of all it was the tune. There have been quite a few versions of the song, but the one that was fresh in my mind because it was the one that I had listened to most often was the one by Michael McDonald and […]
Read More Stop, Look and Listen To God’s HeartEvery day I am in a place to realise there is so much more to learn about love. Sure, love is about giving, yet the whole thing about it is what to give and how to give it. When it comes to long term relationships, I cannot afford to rest on what was done in […]
Read More Living to Love and Learning to LoveI have blogged about my brother, David on a few occasions. I won’t link to them, take my word for it, or search the blog for ‘David Dryden’ for yourself. For the time being I just to note for the record the huge amount of gratitude and admiration I have for him. I have been […]
Read More For The Record: Letting Brother Love Continue
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