When plans don’t work out, prayer and praise help to bring about a proper perspective on God’s purposes. Praise in the Creator whose plans prevail. He puts us on the right track as we prayerfully look to Him in the disappointments and setbacks. Praise is not the neglect of the pain and frustration. Prayer and […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Plans, Prayer, Perspective and PraiseHere’s the premise of the conversation. Wait a minute. This is the 20th part of the conversation? That’s something, right? 20 parts to this conversation – that’s a lot of questions to catch up on. I mean for at least the last ten parts there have been three questions per part – so what’s that […]
Read More ADBC: 20 – Systems to Suck and Systems To EnrichGod 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 GrantedPlans. I love them. There was this activity that I was part of a few years back and the guy who was the project leader was very good at the job. He got the group of us together, explained what the desired outcome was and then asked us what we suggested would be the best […]
Read More Committing Our WaysPlan for the best, expect the worst. That is a piece of advice that I’ve heard for years. By years, I can remember it from before my teens and I’m sure it influenced elements of my approach to things. There was a gnawing sense that bad things could happen and so as to avoid disappointment […]
Read More Planning and ExpectingThere is a lot of negativity going around in that environment. It is as if a cycle operates with following key points. Something bad happens; someone highlights the bad that happened; someone else emphasises the highlights of the bad that happened; someone else chips in with analysis on the emphasised highlights of the bad thing […]
Read More Delightfully UnexpectedImprovisation tends to operate best from those who know how the basic steps go. Take the issue of knowing how to achieve a goal. You get in the habit of setting a goal and seeing how it can be achieved. You notice the importance of key personal qualities and you experience how things can work […]
Read More Checking The StepsIt’s good to start with the end in mind. 2018 has one month remaining. Some started this year with some resolutions. Some started with a few goals. Still others didn’t have an idea what they wanted from the year and played the ‘take every day as it comes’ approach. Whichever approach you had, it’s still […]
Read More Having a December to RememberHave you been checking the time? When we were being taught how to tell the time way back at school we had the analogue clock and the digital clock. That digital clock was a twelve-hour clock. It was a little later on that I got into the twenty-four hour clock. I gotta say, I like […]
Read More A Quarter To – A Dryden UpdateYou ever planned to do something and after a while forget that you had planned to do it? Nah, I’m sure you haven’t. You come across as one of those decent types who tend to stay committed to everything you’ve ever planned. (Wink) As for me, though, I need to be reminded about some of […]
Read More Half Past – A Dryden Update
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